Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #209

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #209 for the week August 29th – September 4th, 2010 and is available here.

In this issue we cover:

• Farewell Ian
• Ubuntu 10.10 Beta (Maverick Meerkat) Released
• Xubuntu Winning Artwork
• New Ubuntu Lucid Proposed Kernel
• Announcing Ubuntu App Developer Week!
• Welcome New Members
• Why do you use Ubuntu?
• First Kernel Triage Summit
• Ubuntu in Education
• Ubuntu Stats
• LoCo Team Banners for Approved Teams
• LoCo Testing Team HowTo
• Ubuntu 10.10 Installfests
• Ubuntu Global Jam – Another Success Due to LoCo Teams Participation
• Testing your multitouch device
• Incredible Stories Of Free Software and Open Source
• Why I Have Nothing Interesting to Say
• Understanding Membership Structures in Debian and Ubuntu
• What I do
• How My Work Benefits Free Software
• Multitouch testers in the Hall of Fame
• Using the Ubuntu Stack Exchange
• Ubuntu 10.10 Countdown
• In The Press
• In The Blogosphere
• HCI at Canonical
• Thinking different at Canonical
• Building Apps for the Cloud: How KnowledgeTree Used Ubuntu for Rapid Development of Its SaaS Offering
• GUADEC 2010 Videos
• IBM DB2 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
• Canonical: Take 60 seconds with Henrik Omma
• Embedded Linux Conference, April 2010 Videos
• Ohio LinuxFest Proves Real FOSS Diversity
• Featured Podcasts
• Monthly Team Reports: August 2010
• Upcoming Meetings and Events
• Updates and Security
• UWN Sneak Peek
• And Much Much More
  This issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:
• Amber Graner
• J Scott Gwin
• Liraz Siri
• Nathan Handler
• Penelope Stowe
• Mike Holstein
• Nigel Babu
• And many others

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