Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 465

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 464 for the weeks of May 2 - 15, 2016.

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In This Issue

• Ubuntu Online Summit 16.05
• Welcome New Members and Developers
• Ubuntu Stats
• Some LoCo updates
• Dustin Kirkland: Canonical and IBM Webinar -- Ubuntu on POWER and LinuxOne
• Ubuntu Studio: Help Us Put Some Polish on Ubuntu Studio
• Canonical Design Team: How we introduced Scrum to the Web Team
• Scarlett Clark: Kubuntu: Debian: KDE: Outreachy! Yay! Upcoming changes
• Kubuntu: Kubuntu Party 3
• Kubuntu: Kubuntu Dojo - Ninja developer training
• Ubuntu App Developer Blog: New PageHeader.subtitle with framework 15.04.5 in OTA-11
• Michael Hall: Dogfooding Unity 8
• Canonical Design Team: App design guide to go live (bit by bit)
• Zygmunt Krynicki: snapd updated to 2.0.3
• Jose Antonio Rey: Ubuntu's back at OSCON this year!
• Ubuntu Cloud News
• Ubuntu Phone News
• Canonical News
• In The Press
• In The Blogosphere
• Other Articles of Interest
• Featured Audio and Video
• Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
• Upcoming Meetings and Events
• Updates and Security for 12.04, 14.04, 15.10 and 16.04
• And much more!

General Community News

Ubuntu Online Summit 16.05

Taking place from May 3rd through 5th, the Ubuntu Online Summit 16.05 is now behind us. Videos for all recorded sessions can be found on the summit website by navigating to specific sessions you're interested in: http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-1605/

Highlights of the event include:

For an overview of everything that was discussed during the Ubuntu Online Summit 16.05, watch the track summaries video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZfkRpFZnzQ

Welcome New Members and Developers

The following new Ubuntu Members were welcomed during the the May 5th Ubuntu Membership Board meeting:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ub...ay/002477.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

• Open (122080) +703 over the past two weeks
• Critical (369) +17 over the past two weeks
• Unconfirmed (59990) +538 over the past two weeks

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad

Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week

==== Most Active Questions ====

==== Top Voted New Questions ====

People Contributing the best questions and answers this week: Nitesh Sharma (http://askubuntu.com/users/371475/nitesh-sharma), panticz.de (http://askubuntu.com/users/15417/panticz-de), remi (http://askubuntu.com/users/35462/remi), r2rien (http://askubuntu.com/users/484163/r2rien) and Chintan (http://askubuntu.com/users/339506/chintan)

Ask (and answer!) questions at http://askubuntu.com

LoCo News

Some LoCo updates

Aaron Honeycutt from the Florida Local Community Team posts some pictures from the recent Ubuntu 16.04 Release Party and Ubuntu Hours. He concludes by writing that the Florida team will be represented at the upcoming SouthEast LinuxFest (SELF) 2016.

http://usefoss.com/index.php/2016/05...-loco-updates/

LoCo Events

The following LoCo team events are currently scheduled in the next two weeks:

Looking beyond the next two weeks? Visit the LoCo Team Portal to browse upcoming events around the world:

http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/

The Planet

Dustin Kirkland: Canonical and IBM Webinar -- Ubuntu on POWER and LinuxOne

Dustin Kirkland shares slides from the joint IBM & Canonical webinar on POWER8 & LinuxOne servers. He provides links to a PDF, the recording, and a series of slides and includes an embedded video.

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/04/ibm-webinar.html

Ubuntu Studio: Help Us Put Some Polish on Ubuntu Studio

The Ubuntu Studio team is currently taking suggestions regarding features and software packages for the recently released Ubuntu Studio 16.04 so they can make the next release even better. Community members are encouraged to provide their feedback in the Idea section of the article.

http://ubuntustudio.org/2016/05/help...ubuntu-studio/

Canonical Design Team: How we introduced Scrum to the Web Team

Magdalena Mirowicz explains how the Ubuntu web development team adjusted their project delivery methodology as they adopted the Scrum project framework. She also elaborates upon the advantages and disadvantages that are present within the framework while detailing the team's experience with it.

http://design.canonical.com/2016/05/...-the-web-team/

Scarlett Clark: Kubuntu: Debian: KDE: Outreachy! Yay! Upcoming changes

Scarlett Clark tells us that she'll be working on Debian reproducible builds from May 20th, having been approved to participate in (Gnome's) Outreachy program. She thanks her supporters and writes that she plans on looking for a open source job when her Outreachy work ends.

http://scarlettgatelyclark.com/2016/...oming-changes/

Kubuntu: Kubuntu Party 3

The Kubuntu team shares an open invitation to the third Kubuntu Party, with the event unschedule focused on "Making Friends and Having Fun!" The event will occur online over the course of 3 hours on May 20th, "from 20:00 until about 23:00, with a 30 minute overrun to close everything down." Of the event itself, they write "It is a very loose format of welcoming guests, and getting them involved in the conversation, and in particular focusing on open questions that invite them to introduce their own topics, we guarantee you'll feel right at home."

http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-party-3/

Kubuntu: Kubuntu Dojo - Ninja developer training

The Kubuntu team invites any interested developers to join them in the Kubuntu Dojo for a free lesson in software packaging. The event will be held at 18:00 UTC on May 26th in the Kubuntu conference server.

http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-...oper-training/

Ubuntu App Developer Blog: New PageHeader.subtitle with framework 15.04.5 in OTA-11

Christain Dywan informs us that framework 15.04.5 for OTA 11 is already available to developers. He writes, "Now you can use the new subtitle property with PageHeader which complements the existing title and shows a smaller label at the bottom of the header." And goes on to give examples.

http://developer.ubuntu.com/en/blog/...-15045-ota-11/

Michael Hall: Dogfooding Unity 8

At the Ubuntu Online Summit Daniel Holbach suggested a "10 day challenge" or to use only the Unity 8 desktop. Michael Hall accepted the challenge. In this blog post Michael tells us what he did to load the Unity 8 desktop on his hardware, the applications and commands needed to get it working for his own needs, and his findings regarding what works and what doesn't. The post was written during day 3 of the 10 day challenge
.

http://mhall119.com/2016/05/dogfooding-unity-8/

Canonical Design Team: App design guide to go live (bit by bit)

Steph Wilson reminds us that new app design guidelines will be rolling out in the coming months. The guidelines help communicate the design practices and philosophy to keep Ubuntu consistent & in attempt to make it easier for developers. As for what's in store, he shares and gives a sneak peak: "We are going to start releasing parts of the Building Blocks section first, which contains all the components you need to start b
uilding your application."

http://design.canonical.com/2016/05/...ve-bit-by-bit/

Zygmunt Krynicki: snapd updated to 2.0.3

Zygmunt Krynicki reports that Ubuntu 16.04 has been updated with a new release of snapd (2.0.3). Zygmunt provides the changelog for the new micro release.

http://www.zygoon.pl/2016/05/snapd-updated-to-203.html

Jose Antonio Rey: Ubuntu's back at OSCON this year!

Jose Antonio Rey lets us know that Ubuntu will be at OSCON in Austin, Texas as an exhibitor this year. He also lists some of the things available for you to see and try out. The conference starts today (Monday, May 16th) through the Expo Hall opens on Tuesday night. He encourages Ubuntu fans to "drop by and say hi."

https://joseeantonior.wordpress.com/...con-this-year/

Ubuntu Cloud News

Ubuntu Phone News

What the community said about the M10 tablet

Amrisha Prashar summarizes the best of the #UbuntuReinvents campaign in an infographic, which strove to answer the question "What your life would look like if all your computing needs fitted into one device?"

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/05/0...he-m10-tablet/

Review tablet bq M10 Ubuntu Edition

Marcos Costales does a review for the BQ M10 Ubuntu Edition. Even though he is not used to working with tablets, he mentions that it has been a different experience. He mentions several ways to work with the tablet and includes a short video at the end. This article is written in Spanish.

http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.com/201...u-edition.html

Developing for Ubuntu Phone without the SDK

Robert Ancell from the Ubuntu SDK team shows us how to develop apps for the Ubuntu Phone without having to use the SDK. He gives step-by-step instructions of how to compile his example app, how he tests it, and a link to download his example code.

http://bobthegnome.blogspot.com/2016...thout-sdk.html

Another Ubuntu Hackathon, with a blend of #convergence

April Wang writes that another 32 hour hackathon focused on Ubuntu on mobile took place in China, with 7 games being ported and a few scopes being created. She shares that on the scope side they created Gaode Map and Ubuner(is like Uber and uses the Uber API), which can help getting around. Cheng Lu wrote a Tuner application to help tune Penk Chen's 3D printed Ukulele.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/05/1...f-convergence/

Canonical News

In The Press

Founder of Ubuntu Linux: No Back Doors; No Weakening of Encryption

C. Mitchell Shaw writes that Mark Shuttleworth has affirmed Ubuntu's commitment to security by stating that the distribution will never have built in back doors or weakened encryption. Writing of the virtues of open source, he concludes "There would simply be no way for a backdoor to be hidden in the source code, since millions of eyes are on it."

http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/c...-of-encryption

BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition review: Desktop-mobile convergence, up to a point

Terry Relph-Knight of ZDNet provides his review of the recently released Aquaris M10 Ubuntu edition tablet, the first Ubuntu tablet to offer desktop-mobile convergence. He concludes that although the device will likely only gaer interest from diehard Ubuntu fans and determined early adopters in its current state due to software issues, these issues may be easily rectified in the near future.

http://www.zdnet.com/product/bq-aqua...buntu-edition/

Ubuntu 16.04 proves even an LTS release can live at Linux's bleeding edge

Scott Gilbertson calls 16.04 "the most exciting release Canonical has put out in recent memory" as he highlights some of 16.04's big changes, including the new GNOME software store, snaps, and ZFS.

http://arstechnica.com/information-t...bleeding-edge/

In The Blogosphere

Ubuntu 16.10: What To Expect from Unity 7

During the plaing for 16.10 at the Ubuntu Online Summit it was aounced that Unity 8 / Mir will not be default. Unity 8 still has it's share of rough edges to get smooth out before being pushed to millions of Ubuntu machines.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/05/w...-16-10-unity-7

Unity 8 and Snaps Are the Future of the Ubuntu Desktop, After Ubuntu 16.10

Plaing are being made with snaps being used on Ubuntu a lot more, from major applications only being in snap format to change deb installed applications into snaps during an upgrade. Unity 7 will also just receive OEM work and critical/major bug fixed.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/unity...0-503735.shtml

Unity 8 suffers another delay (and how to solve this issue)

Jack Wallen of Tech Republic proposes two solutions to the delays of Unity: migrate all of their desktop developers to Unity 8 or delay the release of Ubuntu. He goes in depth on both these ideas, and concludes "Unity 8 will be worth the wait."

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/...ve-this-issue/

An additional post from Jack Wallen of Tech Republic covers "10 things you need to know about Ubuntu Unity 8": http://www.techrepublic.com/article/...buntu-unity-8/

Over this two week period we found too many valuable articles for us to write summaries for! The blogosphere continues with the following articles:

*Ubuntu 16.04 Review: What's New for Desktop Users - https://www.linux.com/news/ubuntu-16...-desktop-users

Other Articles of Interest

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S09E10 - Release the Bats - Ubuntu Podcast

It's Episode Ten of Season Nine of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen and Martin Wimpress are coected and speaking to your brain.

In this week's show:

• We discuss the recent Ubuntu 16.04 LTS release.
• We also discuss playing Pillars of Eteity, playing with a new BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu tablet, making snap packages, and attending the Egham Raspberry Jam.
• We share a Command Line Lurve - detox, which cleans up file names that contain difficult-to-work-with characters.
• And much more!

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2016/05/05/...ease-the-bats/

Juju Office Hours for 13 May

"Status updates across the board, especially from the big data folks!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbg4a8Ef4vg

Full Circle Weekly News #15 & #16

Full Circle Weekly News #15 is out: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/podcas...weekly-news-15
and, Full Circle Magazine #108 came out a couple of days ago: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-108

The show is also available via:
RSS: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/feed/podcast
Stitcher Radio: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=85347&refid=stpr
TuneIn Radio: http://tunein.com/radio/Full-Circle-...-News-p855064/
and PlayerFM: https://player.fm/series/the-full-circle-weekly-news

Full Circle Weekly News #16 is out: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/podcas...weekly-news-16

The show is also available via:
RSS: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/feed/podcast
Stitcher Radio: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=85347&refid=stpr
TuneIn Radio: http://tunein.com/radio/Full-Circle-...-News-p855064/
and PlayerFM: https://player.fm/series/the-full-circle-weekly-news

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S09E11 - Sweet Baby Robocop - Ubuntu Podcast

It's Episode Eleven of Season Nine of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen and Martin Wimpress are coected and speaking to your brain.

In this week's show:

• YouTuber Jim Sterling has revealed a workaround for YouTube's Content ID system...
• The City of Vicenza is choosing Zorin OS...
• Ubuntu Tweak is now officially terminated...
• Ubuntu Core now available for Samsung ARTIK 5 and 10...
• Upcoming Events
• And much more!

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2016/05/12/...-baby-robocop/

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Upcoming Meetings and Events

For upcoming meetings and events please visit the calendars at fridge.ubuntu.com: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/calendars/

Updates and Security for 12.04, 14.04, 15.10 and 16.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 12.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2017

Ubuntu 14.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2019

Ubuntu 15.10 Updates

End of Life - July 2016

Ubuntu 16.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2021

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