The Ubuntu Local Community will be meeting July 7th on Freenode in #ubuntu-locoteams.

Once upon a time, there lived a group of people dedicated to making computing easier and more accessible…

Ok, that time is now.  And those people are right here in Florida and all over the world. Those of us in Florida will be meeting to discuss what we can do to improve our platform of choice.

The team meeting agenda can be found here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FloridaTeam/Meetings#Agenda

Join us on Freenode in #ubuntu-us-fl or via our team chat webpage:

http://www.ubuntu-fl.org/team-chat/

And everyone lived happily ever after…

Welcome to the Ubuntu-Arizona Weekly Newsletter, Issue #98 for the week June 21, June 27.

* Arizona Loco Newsletter
* Ninety Eighth Edition
* Powered by Ubuntu
* Wednesday-July 1, 2009
* Arizona Loco Team Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam

* Next meeting: Sunday July 5, 2009 9:00 PM
* Server: Freenode: IRC Channel #ubuntu-us-az

In this Issue

* Discussion about the Tucson install fest.

* PLUG announcements: We have a tentative date for ABLEconf, the 24th of Oktober at UAT. PLUG devel meeting this Thursday. http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/560 . matthewmpp is doing the BlenderCAD meetings every Sunday during the day. http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/778 . East Side Meeting, in 2 weeks. Lisa already has a topic for July's Hackfest: FreeIPA. http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/658 .

Read the whole thing at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/Newsletters/09July1

Like Pidgin, Gwibber offers you the option to “minimize to tray” when you close the Gwibber window, it also has an option to not show a tray icon.  However, I’d imagine to keep the window from being lost to the user, you can’t do both.  If you make Gwibber minimize to the system tray, it will automatically turn on the tray icon.

Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) introduced the new Indicator Applet, which lets applications that need to show indications/notifications to a user congregate all in one place.  Gwibber is one such application that makes use of the Indicator Applet, but the sanity check I mentioned above means you still get tray clutter.  Here is a quick, simple hack you can make to the Gwibber code to override this behavior.

1. sudo gedit /usr/share/pyshared/gwibber/client.py (If you installed Gwibber from the repos, if you’ve checked out the source it’s under $src/gwibber/client.py)

2. Locate the on_window_close method.

3. Comment out the line: self.preferences["show_tray_icon"] = True (Put a # at the beginning of the line)

4. Save and restart Gwibber!  Now you can minimize to tray without showing a tray icon.  Use the Gwibber entry in the Indicator Applet menu to bring the window back up.

client.py changes

Our First Rockledge Jaunty release party was held on June 26th. It started around 6 p.m. There were 7 people that showed with only three of them being members of the Florida Team. We started off by helping one of the guests dual boot his work laptop with Jaunty. We fixed another attendee’s issue , in which LogMeIn would refresh his entire screen during his remote sessions with using Ubuntu. We entertained questions on how to do things easier when beginning to first use Ubuntu, for example why would you use the terminal with apt-get vs. opening the gui to install applications and add repositories.

Once everyone had Jaunty installed, and the questions were all answered… we all decided to relax with a little bit of World Of Padman action. Lupine was our resident bartender and made some super good Mojito’s that would surely rival Chili’s version. After a bit Lupine ordered pizza for everyone and we all had our fill of some cool combination pizzas (The best hands down was the grilled chicken with bell peppers).

We called it quits close to 10:30, and everyone had a great time. In the future, we plan on giving more notice so others can plan to attend. Thanks to those that were able to attend, and to Lupine for hosting it!

Atlanta Linux Fest will be held Saturday, September 19, 2009. There are lots of great sessions planned and more will be coming. Everything from popular distributions like Ubuntu and Fedora will be covered, to successful open source projects like Blender and SugarCRM.

Join us, learn more about the Linux and open source world, and most importantly, have fun!

To find out more, visit http://atlantalinuxfest.org.

Welcome to the Ubuntu-Arizona Weekly Newsletter, Issue #97 for the week June 15, June 21.

* Arizona Loco Newsletter
* Ninety Seventh Edition
* Powered by Ubuntu
* Wednesday-June 24, 2009
* Arizona Loco Team Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam

* Next meeting: Sunday June 28, 2009 9:00 PM
* Server: Freenode: IRC Channel #ubuntu-us-az

In this Issue

* Freenode no longer accepts Mibbit. Freenode has experienced some abuse due to mibbit. So, mibbit has been cut off and has it's own web portal: webchat.freenode.net .

* Discussion about the Tucson install fest. Date to be August 1 (Saturday), and location to be researched by johnc4510. All team members are welcome, not just the Tucson ones.

* PLUG announcements: PLUG west side this Thursday at 19:00 http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/354 . Install fest on Saturday http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/122 . Planning for ABLEconf 2009 kicked off this week http://www.ABLEconf.com/participate .

*** LUGY NEWS *** Saturday June 27 10AM - 12PM presentation meeting at The Prescott Public Library for lugy.net

Read the whole thing at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/Newsletters/09June24

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The Ubuntu Florida LoCo team will be having a Bug Jam on July 12, 2009 with the location tbd and currently looking at places in the Orlando area.  This event is for people in general and/or from the Florida LoCo to get further involved in triaging bugs in Ubuntu for stable and future releases.

If you’re interested check out the Bug Jam page on the team wiki https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FloridaTeam/Projects/BugJam and sign the RSVP page if plan to attend. We would like to get a head count in order to find an appropriate place for the Bug Jam. At the moment we are guesstimating at least 10 jammers.

Andrew Keyes and Elizabeth Krumbach from the Pennsylvania LoCo team will be joining PLUG member Jonathan Simpson and his fiancee Crissi down to the Southeast Linuxfest (SELF) this Saturday, June 13th.

Welcome to the Ubuntu-Arizona Weekly Newsletter, Issue #96 for the week May 31, June 7.

* Arizona Loco Newsletter
* Ninety Sixth Edition
* Powered by Ubuntu
* Wednesday-June 10, 2009
* Arizona Loco Team Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam

* Next meeting: Sunday June 14, 2009 9:00 PM
* Server: Freenode: IRC Channel #ubuntu-us-az

In this Issue

tyche then started with an announcement:

* As many of you know, johnc4510 has had his appendix removed May 23. He was in the hospital, in Missouri, until May 27, and didn't start for Arizona until June 1. He finally got home Thursday, June 4. We didn't hear any of this until around 9:20 AM on Friday, June 5. He's still sore, and said that he probably would not be doing much for the next week. I, for one, don't blame him. Appendicitis is rough on us older guys. Having been through it myself, I am well qualified to be sympathetic to his condition. I hope all of you will join me in wishing him a speedy recovery. A big thanks goes to hutchnate, who managed to get hold of johnc4510, to be able to get us the information.

* PLUG announcements: PLUG east side meeting is this Thursday, presentations will be getting involved in the community from matthewmpp and the Dell Mini from me, PLUG security hackfest this Saturday, Sunday MatthewMPP will be throwing another BlenderCAD bash at his place, Both Stammtische are next week.

Read the whole thing at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/Newsletters/09June10

The SouthEast Linux Fest June (or SELF) http://www.southeastlinuxfest.org is happening on June 13, 2009 in Clemson, SC. The SouthEast LinuxFest is a community event for anyone who wants to learn more about Linux and Free & Open Source software. It is part educational conference, and part social gathering. Like Linux itself, it is shared with attendees of all skill levels to communicate tips, ideas, and to benefit all who use Linux/Free and Open Source Software. LinuxFest is the place to learn, to make new friends, to network with new business partners, and most importantly, to have fun!

itnet7 (Chris) and pak33m (Jimmy) will be representing the Ubuntu Florida LoCo team although without a booth. pak33m (Jimmy) will be DJing and  providing audio for the SELF after party!

The Qimo 4 Kids http://www.qimo4kids.com team mhall (Michael) and michelle_qimo_4_kids (Michelle) will be presenting at 16:00 Growing Without Boundaries: Charity and Open Source.

Your next mission, should you choose to accept it, is to attend the next Ubuntu Florida LoCo team meeting. The codename for this mission is “Magic”, and it is scheduled for June 16th at 8pm.

The team meeting agenda can be found here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FloridaTeam/Meetings

Join us on Freenode in #ubuntu-us-fl or via our team chat webpage:

http://www.ubuntu-fl.org/team-chat/

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John Pugh of Canonical will be discussing the Ubuntu Developer Summit and talking about new features of the upcoming Karmic Koala release of Ubuntu in October.  Come out and join us!

For more information see the meetup page here: http://www.meetup.com/Tampa-Linux

Welcome to the Ubuntu-Arizona Weekly Newsletter, Issue #95 for the week May 24, May 30.

* Arizona Loco Newsletter
* Ninety Fifth Edition
* Powered by Ubuntu
* Wednesday-June 3, 2009
* Arizona Loco Team Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam

* Next meeting: Sunday June 7, 2009 9:00 PM
* Server: Freenode: IRC Channel #ubuntu-us-az

In this Issue

First a new member, todd, was welcomed to to the Arizona LoCo.

* Some announcements: Jeff_Martin moderates the meeting, AZ LoCo attendance at the install fest and the live streaming, Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #144 available thanks in part to myrtlebeachbums (Dave Bush), and Canonical building an Andriod environment.

* PLUG announcements: PLUG devel on Thursday, BlenderCAD at the home of MatthewMPP, Dennis' introduction to GNU/Linux class starts Tuesday night, and class number 28977 is an OpenOffice.org class in the Fall.

Read the whole thing at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/Newsletters/09June3

The next Ubuntu Florida LoCo team meeting is scheduled for June 2 at 8pm.  Currently on the agenda is: 1. possible school project, 2. making IRC more female friendly, 3. Packaging jams

Join us on Freenode in #ubuntu-us-fl or via our team chat webpage:

http://www.ubuntu-fl.org/team-chat/

Qimo Build Day. We had 13 computers fully assembled and installed, with several others nearly ready. It was a good turn out and we all had a blast.

Welcome to the Ubuntu-Arizona Weekly Newsletter, Issue #94 for the week May 11, May 17.

* Arizona Loco Newsletter
* Ninety Fourth Edition
* Powered by Ubuntu
* Wednesday-May 20, 2009
* Arizona Loco Team Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam

* Next meeting: Sunday May 24, 2009 9:00 PM
* Server: Freenode: IRC Channel #ubuntu-us-az

In this Issue

* some announcements: Karmic Koala Alpha 1 Released, Landscape 1.3 released, Ubuntu Podcast #28: http://ubuntupodcast.net/ , WorksWithU Vodcast: Episode #1 - http://www.workswithu.com/2009/05/11/workswithu-vodcast-episode-1/ .

* Discussion of live streaming from install fests and other team events via USTREAM.

* Discussion of the upcoming install fest, and the possibility of fliers for it

* PLUG announcements: The Stammtische are both this week, MatthewCPP is throwing a weekly BlenderCAD event on Sundays, Dennis' class was full last I checked, but he can give overrides.

Read the whole thing at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/Newsletters/09AMay20

The first ever Qimo Build Day is scheduled for May 23, in Lakeland, Florida.  Come join the Ubuntu Florida Local Community team and other volunteers to help put computers into the hands of kids! Details can be found here: http://www.qimo4kids.com/post/Qimo-4-Kids-Computer-Build-Day!.aspx

The Ubuntu Florida Local Community Team is meeting Tuesday night, May 19th, at 8:00PM in #ubuntu-us-fl. Agenda items to be discussed can be found here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FloridaTeam/Meetings#Agenda

Everyone is welcome. If you’re new to IRC, you can join us via the web-based chat on the team website here.

See you there!

Video streaming by Ustream

Ubuntu Florida Party in Orlando! Thanks to Jimmy, for organizing the Orlando release party for the 3rd year in a row!

Photos from the Florida LoCo team release parties (in chronological order)!

April 23: Pensacola

April 25: Jacksonville/St. Augustine, Gainesville

May 2: Tallahassee, Tampa

May 3: Orlando

May 10: Miami

Pensacola LUG kicked off the Ubuntu Florida Jaunty Release Parties release day! Thanks to David and the Pensacola LUG for a great time!

Great turnout in Gainesville! Thanks to Clint, Douglass, and GatorLUG for making a great party.

Ubuntu Florida LoCo Rocking Miami and South Florida!

Welcome to the Ubuntu-Arizona Weekly Newsletter, Issue #93 for the week May 4, May 10.

* Arizona Loco Newsletter
* Ninety Third Edition
* Powered by Ubuntu
* Wednesday-May 13, 2009
* Arizona Loco Team Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam

* Next meeting: Sunday May 17, 2009 9:00 PM
* Server: Freenode: IRC Channel #ubuntu-us-az

In this Issue

* tyche started the meeting with introductions of new members: hobbit1 and dennisk

* Four announcements including: johnc4510 out of communication due to power outage in Joplin, Mo., BugSquad's first monthly meeting, Release of version 2.0 of byobu, a blogger declares that Ubuntu is a failure in India and specificies why.

* PLUG announcements: dennisk's summer class, PLUG east side meeting Thursday, BlenderCAD event weekly on Sundays, MCC graduates getting their degree in Linux Networking, Both Stamtische are next week, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Read the whole thing at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/Newsletters/09AMay13

There is a planned outage of the AZ LoCo website, for 07:00 - 09:00 (PST/AZ time) Saturday, May 16, 2009.

The upgrade will not effect the IRC server.
If you have any questions, please contact me either through email; evilgourmet (AT) gmail (DOT) com, IRC channel #ubuntu-us-az ( Jeff_Martin ), or leave a comment. I will check the comments and email and will be in the IRC during the update.
We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. Thank you for your patience.
-- AZLoCo.com admin staff

The Ubuntu 9.04 InstallFest will be held this Saturday! We'll have free CDs, installation help, and just some time to hang out with other Linux users from around the area!

Here's the details:

Saturday, May 16th
10-5pm
Emory School of Law, Room 5E
1301 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA

If there are any questions, please feel free to ask either on the mailing list, forums, or IRC channel. See you all there!

Welcome to the Ubuntu-Arizona Weekly Newsletter, Issue #92 for the week April 27, May 3.

* Arizona Loco Newsletter
* Ninety Second Edition
* Powered by Ubuntu
* Wednesday-May 6, 2009
* Arizona Loco Team Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam

* Next meeting: Sunday May 10, 2009 9:00 PM
* Server: Freenode: IRC Channel #ubuntu-us-az

In this Issue

* Two announcements: Karmic Koala Open for Development and Ubuntu Open Week finished up last Friday.

* johnc4510 talked about applying for the System 76er LoCo program, and reintroduced the flyer we've dabbled with so far, http://www.flickr.com/photos/22090195@N03/3441797261/ , Shipment of CDs should be in his hands Monday.

* PLUG announcements: PLUG devel meeting on Thursday (http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/562), PLUG security hackfest Saturday at UAT (http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/656), Next week's PLUG East side meeting is on OpenStreetMaps.

* calimer then made a couple of announcements: SandBox has a facebook group now. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=75607847110 . They recently released an RPG that his afterschool club worked on, and displayed it at RPI college (New York State).

Read the whole thing at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/Newsletters/09AMay6

The long-awaited Jaunty Release Party for Miami is set for this weekend! If you’re in the Fort Lauderdale/Miami area, come out and join us for food, tech talk, and general Ubuntu awesomeness.

Several members of the Florida Local Community team will be on hand to give away CDs and other materials, as well as answer questions.

Date: May 10th, 2009

Time: 1pm to 6pm

Where: Brew Urban Cafe 638 N. Federal Hwy, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304

What: Laptop installs, demos, social

What to bring: Self, family, friends, various forms of technology.

Ubuntu Florida LoCo Tampa Release Party had Cup Cakes!

Oh, and lots of fun people too.

Both the Pittsburgh Jaunty Release Party (held on April 23rd) and the Philadelphia Jaunty Release Party (held of May 2nd) were successes! Both had around 20 attendees in total.

Photos are online now!

Pittsburgh: 

More: http://gallery.ubuntupennsylvania.org/main.php?g2_itemId=724

Philadelphia: 

More: http://gallery.ubuntupennsylvania.org/main.php?g2_itemId=733

This script has been asked of me several times. It is a quick little script to have on your computer to assist in logging into your existing shell account on our server. Just place the following text into a file. Be sure to make the file executable and have the file in your path so you can just type its name into a terminal and have it run.

1. Open terminal (Applications < Accessories < Terminal)
2. Type "mkdir bin" this will create a folder called bin in your home directory. It is supposed to be included in your executable path if it exists.
3. Type "cd bin"
4. Type "vim ubuntuaz"
5. Type "i" for input mode
6. Copy and paste text below by highlighting and using right clicks to select copy and paste
#!/bin/sh
clear
echo "Username on Ubuntuaz: "
read user_name
ssh $user_name@azloco.com
7. Hit Esc button
8. Hit buttons "Shift + zz" to save and exit
9. Type "chmod 700 ubuntuaz" to make your new file executable
10. Type Exit. You may also have to log out and back into your computer to have the next step work
11. Open terminal and type ubuntuaz
12. Type in the user name you want to login with.
13. Type in your password
14. Enjoy your shell account

Welcome to the Ubuntu-Arizona Weekly Newsletter, Issue #91 for the week April 20, April 26.

* Arizona Loco Newsletter
* Ninety First Edition
* Powered by Ubuntu
* Wednesday-April 29, 2009
* Arizona Loco Team Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam

* Next meeting: Sunday May 3, 2009 9:00 PM
* Server: Freenode: IRC Channel #ubuntu-us-az

In this Issue

* Introduction of new team member, Jazzy_Jeff.

* Five announcements: OpenWeek, Limited edition T-Shirt, Ubuntu Gaming Team, Ubuntu Podcast #25 and Full Circle Magazine #24.

* johnc4510 talked about the Release Parties and the need for a better effort.

* tyche put together a new flyer that johnc4510 felt was more attractive. It was then decided that the Phoenix Install Fest would be:

Saturday, May 30, 2009
From 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
University of Advancing Technology
2625 W Baseline Rd, Tempe

We'll plan a Tucson event for a week or two after that. That would give more time to get the Tucson one planned since the Phoenix one in essence is most of the way planned already.

Read the whole thing at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/Newsletters/09April29

I would like to present you all with the new Release Party Poster. Thanks to Eric Jackson for all the hard work.

If you would like I have AI files for all versions if you wish to print them off and distribute them.

So here is the info you’ve been waiting for.

Event Details

• Where: The DNote
• Date: May 3, 2009
• Time: 12-2pm or later if we need to
• Location: 7519 Grandview Ave Arvada, Colorado

Topics

• Whats New (Release Notes) - Nick (NerdyNick)
• More to Come as I get info

Welcome to the Ubuntu-Arizona Weekly Newsletter, Issue #90 for the week April 13, April 19.

* Arizona Loco Newsletter
* Eighty Ninth Edition
* Powered by Ubuntu
* Wednesday-April 22, 2009
* Arizona Loco Team Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam

* Next meeting: Sunday April 26, 2009 9:00 PM
* Server: Freenode: IRC Channel #ubuntu-us-az

In this Issue

* Introduction of new team member, jurelex
* Three announcements: Ubuntu 9.04 Release candidate is out; RC for ARM is also out; the next Packaging Training session, April 23 at 00:00 UTC in #ubuntu-classroom.
* johnc4510 has ordered a bulk shipment of disks from ShipIt, and gotten confirmation of the order.
* PLUG announcements from Hans.

Read the whole thing at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/Newsletters/09April22

The Ubuntu Georgia LoCo will be holding an Ubuntu 9.04 release party at Manuel's Tavern on Saturday, April 25th from 5-10pm.

Join us as we eat and booze up to celebrate the greatest release ever!

Manuel's Tavern is located at 602 N. Highland Ave, Atlanta. Ask for the Ubuntu group and bring your laptop!

If you have any questions, email jreagan1990 -at- gmail.com or nali -at- ubuntu.com.

The Philadelphia Geeknic yesterday was a fantastic success. We topped out around 30 attendees from across all kinds of geek disciplines. Scifi? Yep! Science? Yep! Computers? Well, that goes without saying!

http://gallery.ubuntupennsylvania.org/main.php?g2_itemId=556

http://gallery.ubuntupennsylvania.org/main.php?g2_itemId=622

At the Americas Board meeting this past Tuesday evening Alex Launi became the latest Ubuntu Pennsylvania member to become an Ubuntu Member!

From the announcement:

Alex has been an active member of the US Pennsylvania LoCo team since 2007 and is a developer for GNOME Do. Within the core Ubuntu community his contributions have been primarily to the LoCo as one of the mailing list admins and a launchpad admin, as well as contributing to development of the website and attending and participating in many events. He is also active on the forums giving support and does bug reporting and was recently involved with some testing with the Intel video drivers in Jaunty.

Congratulations Alex!

We will be holding our release party this go around at The DNote on May 3, 2009 from 12pm to 2pm+.

This is a quick note. More info to come very very soon.

Welcome to the Ubuntu-Arizona Weekly Newsletter, Issue #89 for the week April 6, April 12.

* Arizona Loco Newsletter
* Eighty Ninth Edition
* Powered by Ubuntu
* Wednesday-April 15, 2009
* Arizona Loco Team Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam

* Next meeting: Sunday April 19, 2009 9:00 PM
* Server: Freenode: IRC Channel #ubuntu-us-az

In this Issue

* Introduction of new Team member, tim__
* 7 announcements: archive freeze for Jaunty Jackalope RC, Ubuntu 7.10 reaches end of live, the next Open Week, the next testing day, new issue of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue137), Jeff Martin is added as admin to the Team server, and a request for more blogs from Team members on the Team site (http://azloco.com/).
* Discussion of the Jaunty release party planning (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/JauntyEvents)
* PLUG announcements
* System76 will print fliers for free, for member teams.

Read the whole thing at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/Newsletters/09April15

Welcome to the Ubuntu-Arizona Weekly Newsletter, Issue #88 for the week March 30, April 5.

* Arizona Loco Newsletter
* Eighty Eighth Edition
* Powered by Ubuntu
* Wednesday-April 8, 2009
* Arizona Loco Team Wiki: ["ArizonaTeam"]

* Next meeting: Sunday April 12, 2009 9:00 PM
* Server: Freenode: IRC Channel #ubuntu-us-az

In this Issue

* Introducing a new member
* 5 announcements: Packaging Training day, the next Hug Day, Call for Idea Reviewers, Ubuntu Podcast Episode #24, and Ubuntu-UK Podcast - The Return
* PLUG announcements: West side meeting, the next security hackfest and Free Software Stammtische
* A discussion of the Phoenix Jaunty Jackalope release party.
* Information on the Tucson Jaunty Jackalope release party.
* A brief discussion on the RedSeven release party.

Read the whole thing at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/Newsletters/09April8

The Pittsburgh team will be celebrating the Jaunty release with a party at Fox and Hound in Pittsburgh! Thanks to Tim Bosse (who as it turns out, may not be able to attend, but is handling organizing) and Scott Sweeny for pulling things together.

Date: Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 at the Fox & Hound

Time: 7:00 PM

Location: Fox & Hound

The Fox and Hound knows about the party. Ask where the Ubuntu party is if you can’t find it. Check out the wiki for more details: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PennsylvaniaTeam/EventsTeam/PittsburghJauntyRelease

Welcome to the Ubuntu-Arizona Weekly Newsletter, Issue #87 for the week March 23, March 29.

* Arizona Loco Newsletter
* Eighty Seventh Edition
* Powered by Ubuntu
* Wednesday-April 1, 2009
* Arizona Loco Team Wiki: AZ Team Wiki

* Next meeting: Sunday April 5, 2009 9:00 PM
* Server: Freenode: IRC Channel #ubuntu-us-az

In this Issue

* Three announcements: Jaunty countdown banners, EOL of Gutsy Gibbon, and QA testing day on March 30th.
* Discussion about the possible release party or install fest for Jaunty Jackalope.
* PLUG announcements.

And an appropriate April Fools Joke for April 1.

Read the whole thing at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/Newsletters/09April1

The Philadelphia team will be celebrating the launch of Jaunty with a Release Party at the Manayunk Diner in Philadelphia. Huge thanks to Jim Fisher for coming through on securing this location for us, complete with our own private room!

Date : Saturday May 2, 2009

Time : 3:00 pm

Location : Manayunk Diner

Check out our wiki for more details, directions and a map: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PennsylvaniaTeam/EventsTeam/PhillyJauntyRelease

The Philadelphia team is working with others to plan our very own Geeknic! What’s a Geeknic? A picnic for geeks!

This event is not Ubuntu specific, so bring your friends of all geeky colors for an afternoon of BBQ, snacks, geek talk and hopefully fantastic weather.

Date : Sunday April 19, 2009

Time : 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Location : Betzwood Park, West Norriton

More details and sign-up on our wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PennsylvaniaTeam/EventsTeam/PhillyGeeknic2009

Jaunty Countdown Banners

We have added the new Ubuntu Countdown Banner to our team website. Arizona LoCo Team The folks who put the images together did a GREAT job!!

Help spread the word about Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope 9.04!! Adding the Ubuntu countdown timer to your website is easy! Just copy and paste one of the choices into your webpage, and each day the image will update showing the days remaining before the release. There are four options to choose from: The Ring, The Calendar, One that's animated, and a simple static image for websites that don't use Java. You can get the banners at: Jaunty Countdown Banner

Welcome to the Ubuntu-Arizona Weekly Newsletter, Issue #86 for the week March 16, March 22.

* Arizona Loco Newsletter
* Eighty Sixth Edition
* Powered by Ubuntu
* Wednesday-March 25, 2009
* Arizona Loco Team Wiki: AZ Team Wiki

* Next meeting: Sunday March 29, 2009 9:00 PM
* Server: Freenode: IRC Channel #ubuntu-us-az

In this Issue

tyche began the meeting with an announcement:

* Numerous announcements, including some pertaining directly to the Team.
* Introduction of new members
* More information from scott_ev about bug squishing.
* Discussion about Jaunty Jackalope events: Install fests and Release parties.
* PLUG announcements from xHans

Read the whole thing at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/Newsletters/09March25

Welcome to the Ubuntu-Arizona Weekly Newsletter, Issue #85 for the week March 9, March 15.

* Arizona Loco Newsletter
* Eighty Fifth Edition
* Powered by Ubuntu
* Wednesday-March 18, 2009
* Arizona Loco Team Wiki: ["ArizonaTeam"]

* Next meeting: Sunday March 22, 2009 9:00 PM
* Server: Freenode: IRC Channel #ubuntu-us-az

In This Issue:

* Numerous announcements, including some pertaining directly to the Team.
* Adler_ and duanedesign introduce themselves.
* Info on the ASU Installfest next saturday: http://paste.ubuntu.com/131814/ .
* johnc4510 talks about the Jaunty Jackalpe events planning page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/JauntyEvents .
* ABLEcon...cory has agreed to help on the local committee (http://www.ABLEconf.com/node/23), and we've exchanged phone numbers.
* PLUG announcements from xHans.
* scott_ev talks about bug triaging. A blog post can be found at http://azloco.com/node/64 .

Read the whole thing at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/Newsletters/09March18

I'm going to keep this short and sweet like johnc4510 asked me to.
Here is the time and place:
Date: March 21st, 2009
Time: 9am - 5pm
Location: Brickyard Lobby 1st floor
699 S Mill Ave
Tempe, AZ 85281 (map shown below)

They are going to have games, different presentations, and booths for all kinds of different stuff. As of Sunday it looks like there are going to be at least 5 of us going to help them out, and we would like to see as much of an AZ LoCo turnout as possible. Hope to see you all there.

For more information see http://paste.ubuntu.com/131814/.

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The Ubuntu developers are moving quickly to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the Open Source Community has to offer. The Jaunty Jackalope Alpha 6 is the fifth alpha release of Ubuntu 9.04, bringing with it a number of new features to improve daily computing. This is still an alpha release. Do not install it on production machines. The final stable version will be released on April 23rd, 2009.

Get It!! Ubuntu Jaunty Alpha 6

Well its that time of the year again. Time to start planning for the upcoming Jaunty Jackalope Release Party.

I am looking to get a head count on the number of people wishing to attend and suggests for the Location and Date. Currently on the table is the Oriental Theater. However to do this I need to have 50+ people confirm that they will attend the event.

Features of the Oriental Theater are:

• 40-foot Projector
• Sandwich Shop
• Wi-Fi
• Room for a lot
• Good Location

I am looking for a few people to also give a presentation at the release party. It doesn’t need to be release oriented, but at least be Ubuntu and/or Open Source related. I am going to put together a presentation on the new features and bug fixes for the new release as well to go along with any other presentations. If you wish to do a presentation please email me at (nerdynick) at (gmail) dot (com).

I am also looking for a designer to mock up a Release Party flyer. If you know of someone and are that someone please email me or the mailing list your design ideas.

If you wish to attend please fill out the form at: http://tinyurl.com/ccp9ea

I will be rebooting our team servers for updates on 3-12-09 at 3:00am. Please be logged out with all screen sessions ended. The process will take about 30 minutes. If you have questions please private message me in IRC or leave a comment here. I will check for messages before rebooting

Welcome to the Ubuntu-Arizona Weekly Newsletter, Issue #84 for the week March 2, March 8.

* Arizona Loco Newsletter
* Eighty Fourth Edition
* Powered by Ubuntu
* Wednesday-March 11, 2009
* Arizona Loco Team Wiki: AZ Team Wiki
* Next meeting: Sunday March 15, 2009 9:00 PM
* Server: Freenode: IRC Channel #ubuntu-us-az

In This Issue:

* Numerous announcements, including some pertaining directly to the Team.
* Setting up a wiki page to start our planning on Jaunty Events.
* WordPress has been set up on the test server. And the offer to allow Team members to set up applications to test.
* Status of the ABLEconf local committee.
* scott_ev requested that everyone read this this week https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/HowToTriage
* PLUG announcement for the East Side Meeting.

Read the whole thing at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/Newsletters/09March11

Mark your calendars! The Ubuntu March face to face meeting will be held Saturday March 21, 2009 at 2pm. We will be meeting at the Athens Pizza House in Decatur (1341 Clairmont Rd Decatur, GA 30033).

The Ubuntu face to face meetings are a place to come and meet other Ubuntu and other free software users in the area. The meeting will be RSVP so I can get a large enough table for everyone. If you plan on coming, just send me an email (jreagan1990@gmail.com) and let me know how many folks will be attending.

Thanks!

Jon Reagan
President, Ubuntu Georgia LoCo

Welcome to the Ubuntu-Arizona Weekly Newsletter, Issue #83 for the week February 23, March 1.

* Arizona Loco Newsletter
* Eighty Third Edition
* Powered by Ubuntu
* Wednesday-March 4, 2009
* Arizona Loco Team Wiki: ["ArizonaTeam"]

* Next meeting: Sunday March 8, 2009 9:00 PM
* Server: Freenode: IRC Channel #ubuntu-arizona

In This Issue:

* A discussion on setting up an email server for the team.
* WordPress on the Test Server.
* A discussion of hosting for state LUGS.
* The idea of a calendar for the State LUGS.
* PLUG announcements.
* What is needed for ABLEconf.

Read the whole thing at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/Newsletters/09March4

Now that the "Jaunty Jack" release is less than 2 months away, we need to start planning for our events. Jono Bacon, the Ubuntu Community Manager, has written some initial guidelines for hosting these events. Jaunty Release Planning. At the next team meeting, Sunday 03/01/09 - 9PM in IRC, we should get started on our planning by looking over past events, and getting a wiki page up that outlines of our plan of attack. Dates, locations, how to get the word out to the general public, and getting the LUGs involved should get us a good start. So, get your thinking caps on and kick your motivation into high gear so that we can have the best events ever!

On Feb. 19th, 2009, our own Kenny McHenry (kennymc0) went before the Americas Regional Membership Board, and after a short question and answer session, was granted Ubuntu Membership for his outstanding contributions to the Arizona LoCo Team and the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. We had a good turnout of team members at the Board meeting to show their support of Kenny and his bid for membership. It was great to see all the support for a fellow team member. With Kenny's acceptance, that brings the number of Arizona Team members with Ubuntu Membership to 3, and we have others who are working toward qualifying. We congratulate Kenny on his membership, and thank him for all of his outstanding work on behalf of Ubuntu, the Arizona Team, and the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. w00t!!

Kenny McHenry