Delta Puddle Hopper from Wichita, originally uploaded by boredandblogging.

This never happens with AirTran. What is up with Delta?

Wizard of Oz Monopoly, originally uploaded by boredandblogging.

Yep, we are definitely in Kansas.

Bored in Wichita, originally uploaded by boredandblogging.

Watching reruns of Bones.

So Josh and I did our second Ubuntu podcast. Some community news, some Ubuntu 8.10 new feature possibilities, some blog coverage, and Linus calling people masturbating monkeys. What could be better?

Like last week, you can view the video or just listen to the audio.

Check it out.

Congratulations to members of our newly approved LoCos: Lithuania and Tunisia!

The Japanese Team continues doing excellent work as it passed its yearly review with flying colors!

Digg It!

Some topics covered:

• Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter History
• UWN Past & Present Editors Podcast
• Mark Shuttleworth podcast
• Joining the UWN staff
• New Ubuntu QA team
• Call for nominations for Tech Board
• Alpha 3 soft freeze
• Next Ubuntu UDS
• Ubuntu stats
• LoCo news
• Ubuntu Forums news
• In the Press & Blogosphere
• Ubuntu-UK podcast #10
• UWN podcast transcriptions
• Upcoming Meetings & Events
• Updates & Security

Read it here.

This is a special Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.

For our 100th edition, we cover the history of the UWN, a look back at previous UWNs, and discuss what the UWN has meant for people who have worked on it. Former and current staffers of UWN joined in for a podcast to discuss their experiences of contributing to the UWN and the impact of the UWN on the community. Mark Shuttleworth also provides his views on the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.

Links to the UWN Editors Podcast:

• Ogg
• Mp3

Links to Mark discussing the UWN:

• Ogg
• Mp3

If you are interested in writing for the UWN, join and introduce yourself to the the news team list.

If you have a story idea for the Weekly News, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

Some folks on the Marketing Team have been working on a SpreadUbuntu project. Rubén Romero sent out an email to schedule a meeting to discuss it:

Hello everyone,

The first coming Saturday 29th [actually 19th] of July at 21UTC we plan to hold a meeting in #ubuntu-marketing to talk and adjust our work around the SpreadUbuntu Project. Our focus this time will be in the DIY (Do-It-Yourself) repository with marketing and artwork material for the whole Ubuntu community. Any other SU related questions will be adressed as well.

We, the Spread Ubuntu team, have been working hard to consolidate all the previous work done by others and try to find a path for the future of the project. If you love Ubuntu and would like to help us build a site to spread it please join us:

• Launchpad - https://launchpad.net/~spreadubuntu
• UbuntuWiki - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam/SpreadUbuntu

We need a lot of help in understanding bzr and launchpad in general, so if you are good at this you may give us a hand too

The project status is as follows:

• Previous DIY and SU projects in launchpad are assigned to us (the SU team) now
• We have a playground webserver by Houbsi to work with drupal and we have some mockups for the site and logo as well
• We have started using LaunchPad (LP) to track down task, blueprints ang getting to know bzr
• blueprint and the bazaar branch for the drupal template
• Launchpad will have the elements (using bzr as our DVCS) so we can track different versions and keep high quality versions of the material without killing the sites bandwidth or storage space
• The DIY site will have the latest copy of the elements as well as a database pointing to the original elements stored in LP (so they can be retrieved if the user wants)
• LP will be used for Material translation, change requests, questions & answers and material storage (through bazaar and probably a PPA)
• The Leonov project will be used as a start for our SUgui (a SU desktop client for designers/users) and we will implement plug-ins for it so elements can be edited from within the app (+/- 1 years from now)

See you this saturday in #ubuntu-marketing @ FreeNode

Best regards,

Rubén Romero
https://launchpad.net/~huayra

© dariuszka

I’m sure some folks have seen the pingdom post about the uptime of Microsoft, Apple, and Ubuntu “software update” servers over a 3 month period. Basically, the uptimes were: Microsoft, 100%; Apple, 99.9%, and Ubuntu, 98.64%. Pingdom states that they were tracking specific servers, and only the main Ubuntu archive. They point out that Ubuntu has lots of mirrors, but pingdom didn’t bother tracking any of them. So should the title of pingdom’s post really be “Microsoft’s software update beats Apple and Ubuntu?” How about “Microsoft beats Apple, Ubuntu in service reliability?”

Ok, ok, I’ll stop being a baby about it.

Josh Chase and I started up an Ubuntu podcast. The purpose is mainly to cover weekly happenings in the Ubuntu community. We’ll be streaming live video every week while recording the show.

Hope on over and check out our first attempt at it. Feel free to leave some feedback. Be Gentle!

Check out Steve Langasek’s email for more info and download links: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-July/000451.html

Remember, don’t install it on production machines.