Welcome to the Ubuntu-Arizona Weekly Newsletter, Issue #101 for the week July 19, July 26.

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

* Next meeting: Sunday August 2, 2009 9:00 PM
* Server: Freenode: IRC Channel #ubuntu-us-az

In this issue

* Announcements: Karmic Alpha 3 released: Pre-releases of Karmic are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. Launchpad is now open source: Released under the GNU Affero General Public license, version 3, Launchpad’s code is now open source.

* _MrsApple_ was welcomed to the Team.

* scott_ev then announced that vorian had resigned from his job in Ohio and was looking to move to Idaho or Utah.

* Discussion of the Tucson Install Fest.

* PLUG announcements: ABLEconf group sponsor requirements were created this week. http://www.ABLEconf.com/wiki/index.php?title=2009Phx/GroupSponsors . This Friday is the 10th annual Sysadmin Appreciation Day. http://www.SysadminDay.com/ . Software Freedom Day is coming up, Saturday, September 19th. http://www.SoftwareFreedomDay.org and http://SoftwareFreedomDay.org/teams/northamerica/AZ . No PLUG events this week. We did get a job posting, though. http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/1123 . Classes start soon at the community colleges. I will be updating info on my site, but we will also have posts to PLUG. http://www.LuftHans.com/Classes .

Read the whole thing at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/Newsletters/09July29

Welcome to the Ubuntu-Arizona Weekly Newsletter, Issue #100 for the week July 12, July 18.

* Arizona Loco Newsletter
* One Hundredth Edition
* Powered by Ubuntu
* Wednesday-July 22, 2009
* Arizona Loco Team Wiki: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam

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

In this issue

* Announcement: Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS has been released for the server, desktop, and alternate installation CDs for the i386 and amd64 architectures. Karmic is now open for translation. You can now go to: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+translations to start translating Ubuntu Karmic. The Ubuntu Java development team is pleased to announce completed certification of OpenJDK 6 for Ubuntu 9.04.

* PLUG announcements: ABLEconf, Saturday Oktober 24th, 10:00 to 16:00, then over to Boulders. We’re considering a FOSS dev day on Friday and a LAN party on Sunday. http://www.ABLEconf.com . The Free Software Stammtisch in Tempe is this Tuesday. http://www.LuftHans.com/Free_Software_Stammtisch#Tempe . The west side meeting is this Wednesday, we will be at a temporary location. PhrkOnLsh will be covering unetbootin. http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/353 . PLUG and Ubuntu-US-AZ Installfest this Saturday. http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/127 . Community college classes start up again in mid-August, so check for Free Software classes at your local community colleges.

Read the whole thing at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/Newsletters/09July22

Welcome to the Ubuntu-Arizona Weekly Newsletter, Issue #99 for the week July 5, July 11.

* Arizona Loco Newsletter
* Ninety Ninth Edition
* Powered by Ubuntu
* Wednesday-July 15, 2009
* Arizona Loco Team Wiki: [“ArizonaTeam”]

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

In this issue

* Announcement: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Desktop will reach end of life on Tuesday, July 14, 2009.

* johnc4510 then stated that he was considering stepping down as Team leader. A discussion of how to go about organizing the Team leadership followed.

Information received after the meeting

PLUG announcements: ABLEconf has been confirmed for Saturday, 2009Oct24. IRC meetings every Sunday the hour before the AZ Loco mtg. Avondale Free Software Stammtisch is Wednesday, Tempe Free Software Stammtisch isn’t this week, it’s a week from Tuesday. Prescott Free Software Stammtisch is this Tuesday. The BlenderCAD meetings are no longer every Sunday, they’re now the 3rd Saturday of the month. matthewmpp has also added an IRC meeting for the BlenderCAD project the 3rd Thursday of the month.

FUN AND GAMES

Ubuntu Gaming Night is a group of Ubuntu users who meet up midday Sunday and play multiplayer native Linux games, both FOSS and Commercial.

== OUTLINE OF JOHN’S TEAM TASKS ==

As requested by the team at the last meeting, here is a listing of duties I currently oversee:

* Team IRC Channel administration
* Team Mailing List administration
* Team Launchpad administration
* Team Forums administration
* Team Wiki administration including setup and formatting of new pages
* Chairing of weekly team meetings
* Team Server administration
* Events planning and coordination
* Team contact and coordinator for state LUG’s
* Team contact and distributor for shipit CDs from Ubuntu
* ABLEcon coordination
* Various small projects: This includes anything that come up during meetings that needs to be done.

Team Focus: Launchpad Bug #1 – https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1

* As of now, our overall plan is geared to promoted Ubuntu and Open Source computing in the State of Arizona. We do this through our events, and working with the state LUGs. By working with the state LUGs, we are able to pool our resources in order to reach a broader base of users in Arizona. Because our team has an abundance of resources available from Ubuntu, it is up to us to help in any way we can to help promote open source computing in Arizona. By doing this we effectually broaden our base, and the open source base in Arizona.

Read the whole thing at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/Newsletters/09July15