Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #317 for the week May 13 – 19, 2013, and the full version is available here.

In this issue we cover:

• Announcing the Ubuntu Billboard Photo Contest
• Ubuntu Developer Summit 13.05 Closing Plenary and Track Summaries
• Ubuntu Open Week for Raring: Almost Here!
• Ubuntu Stats
• Getting the Ubuntu Advocacy Kit to 1.0
• Raring Party in Barcelona
• Daniel Holbach: Our Community Website
• Canonical Design Team: Ubuntu.com update
• Jono Bacon: Video Demo of Unity 8 on Mir and on a Galaxy Nexus
• The Fridge: Gandi now offers discounts for Ubuntu Members
• Canonical Design Team: System Settings for Ubuntu Phone
• Xubuntu: Looking towards Xubuntu 13.10
• Jono Bacon: Dogfooding the Ubuntu Phone: My (Early) Experience
• Ringtail from scratch
• Exploring Ubuntu Touch, the other Linux OS for your phone
• Google Glass rooted and hacked to run Ubuntu live at Google I/O
• What to Expect from Unity in Ubuntu 13.10
• In The Blogosphere
• Other Articles of Interest
• Upcoming Meetings and Events
• Updates and Security for 10.04, 12.04, 12.10 and 13.04
• And much more!

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

• Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph
• Paul White
• John Kim
• Benjamin Kerensa
• David Morfin
• Amber Graner
• The Alpaca Herder
• Jim Connett
• And many others

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Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph, on behalf of the Ubuntu Community Council

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #316 for the week 6 – 13 May, 2013, and the full version is available here.

In this issue we cover:

• Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron), 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Desktop, and 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) End of Life reached on May 9, 2013
• Virtual Ubuntu Developer Summit 13.05
• Our Community Website
• Ubuntu Stats
• Jono Bacon: Sprinting In Oakland
• Nicholas Skaggs: People behind Ubuntu quality: Javier, Howard and Jackson
• Rick Spencer: Ugly Duckling to Beautiful Swan, or How an App Developer Benefits from Designer/Developer Collaboration
• Ian Weisser: Brainstorm Big 5 – May 2013
• London OpenStack & MySQL Meetups May 23rd
• Samsung U1000 Sexier Than Galaxy S4 But Doesn’t Run Android [First Samsung Ubuntu Concept]
• Ubuntu vs Android Tablets, Smartphones: Canonical’s Secret Weapon
• Where’s my Ubuntu for Android?
• First looks at Ubuntu and Kubuntu 13.04
• In The Blogosphere
• In Other News
• Other Articles of Interest
• Upcoming Meetings and Events
• Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 11.10, 12.04, 12.10 and 13.04
• And much more!

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

• Amber Graner
• Craig Sargent
• Paul White
• John Kim
• Javier Lopez
• Tiago Carrondo
• Jim Connett
• Jose Antonio Rey
• 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