Monthly Archives: June 2012

12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) Alpha 2 Released!

Welcome to the Quantal Quetzal Alpha 2 image set, which will in time become the 12.10 release. Pre-releases of Quantal Quetzal are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 271

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #271 for the week June 18 – 24, 2012, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: More tasks to sink your teeth in New IRC Council Member: Jussi Kekkonen (Tm_T) Ubuntu App Showdown Week 1 Wrap-Up Ubuntu User Days Wrap-up Welcome […]

New IRC Council Member: Jussi Kekkonen (Tm_T)

Back in May Alan Bell of the IRC Council put out a call for nominations to fill the fifth seat seat on the IRC Council. Nominees were collected and on June 7th a poll was sent out to members of the Ubuntu IRC community to vote on the nominees. The poll closed yesterday, results are […]

More tasks to sink your teeth in

Two weeks ago we launched our first bug fixing initiative for the quantal release cycle and we are happy to report that at least four new contributors helped out: Sebastian Carneiro, Siddhanathan S., Guruprasad and Bruno Ribeiro. Thanks a lot everyone! In the last MOTU meeting we agreed on a new list of tasks, so […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 270

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #270 for the week June 11 – 17, 2012, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu 12.10 Developer Update Final schedule for the Membership Board meetings Ubuntu Stats Ubuntu-it Meeting Report Bug Linking Part 2 Juju everywhere! us-east-1 Ubuntu mirrors […]