Thanks to all the great candidates we had for the restaffing! It’s never easy to select from great lists and candidates, but we do have limited spots on the board, so congratulations and welcome to the following:

12:00 Membership Board

• Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman
• ஆமாச்சு
• Russell John
• Micah Gersten

22:00 Membership Board

• Chris Johnston
• IdleOne
• C de-Avillez
• s.fox
• Pablo Rubianes

All of these individuals will be added to the new consolidated ~ubuntu-membership-board team and we’ll be working to update the documentation to reflect time-based rather than region-based boards.

Originally posted to the ubuntu-news-team mailing list by Elizabeth Krumbach on Wed May 30 16:24:51 UTC 2012

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #267 for the week May 21 – 27, 2012, and the full version is available here.

In this issue we cover:

• Ubuntu Stats
• Pretoria Precise Pangolin Release party with steak
• Data mining in Launchpad
• How bug information types work with privacy
• Ready to try ARM on the cloud? Try it on Amazon EC2
• s.fox: An Interview with Nothingspecial
• Dustin Kirkland: Introducing zEscrow — or, How to save your encrypted life!
• Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Top 10 Ubuntu app downloads for April 2012
• Jono Bacon: Ubuntu 12.04: Parentally Precise
• Lubuntu Blog: Mocking up!
• Kubuntu: Kubuntu Council Elections – 2012
• How Debian has grown: Stefano Zacchiroli speaks
• Ubuntu 12.04 and what it may mean for OS evolution
• System76 Releases Gazelle Professional Ubuntu Laptop
• Ubuntu One adds Paypal support
• Ubuntu One Vs Dropbox: Has Ubuntu One Lost The Personal Cloud Market?
• Open source driving cloud, big data, mobile, survey finds
• Full Circle Issue #61
• Other Articles of Interest
• Featured Podcasts
• Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
• Weekly Official Ubuntu Flavors Team Meetings
• Upcoming Meetings and Events
• Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 11.04, 11.10 and 12.04
• And much more!

The issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

• Elizabeth Krumbach
• mikewhatever
• Jasna Benčić
• Matt Rudge
• And many others

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

Except where otherwise noted, content in this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons License

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #266 for the week May 14 – 20, 2012, and the full version is available here.

In this issue we cover:

• A UDS retrospective
• Ubuntu Stats
• LoCo News
• Launchpad News
• Ubuntu Forums News
• Jono Bacon: Precision and Reliability in Ubuntu Accomplishments
• Martin Pitt: Debian/Ubuntu Packages for PostgreSQL 9.2 Beta 1
• Jonathan Carter: Launchpad.net: bug 1 000 000
• Mythbuntu: Default download link for 12.04 ISO is now 64-bit!
• 125,000 Ubuntu PCs to land in Pakistani students’ laps
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS review
• Linux Desktops: Cinnamon vs. Unity
• Canonical’s Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix Evolves
• An example of the usefulness of bittorrent for entirely legal purposes
• Other Articles of Interest
• Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
• Weekly Official Ubuntu Flavors Team Meetings
• Monthly Team Reports: April 2012
• Upcoming Meetings and Events
• Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 11.04, 11.10 and 12.04
• And much more!

The issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

• Elizabeth Krumbach
• Nathan Dyer
• Mathias Hellsten
• Feyisayo Akinboboye
• John Kim
• mikewhatever
• Matt Rudge
• And many others

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

Except where otherwise noted, content in this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons License