Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #173

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #173 for the week December 13th – December 19th, 2009 is available.

In this issue we cover:

* Mark Shuttleworth: My new focus at Canonical
* Lucid Community Team Plans
* Michal Zajac (quintasan) Interview
* Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Notification
* Ubuntu Stats
* New update for the Ubuntu Israeli website
* Ubuntu Catalan: What a LoCo November
* James Westby: Ubuntu Distributed Development Overview
* Ubuntuforums: In a month
* In the Press & Blogosphere
* Ubuntu’s Jono Bacon: Managing an Open Source Community
* Cloud-oriented netbook distro arrives in beta
* Upcoming Meetings & Events
* Updates & Security
* And much, much more!

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

* John Crawford
* Craig A. Eddy
* Dave Bush
* Amber Graner
* Liraz Siri
* And many others

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