Welcome to the Ubuntu-Arizona Weekly Newsletter, Issue #102 for the week July 27, August 2.

* Arizona Loco Newsletter
* One Hundredth Second Edition
* Powered by Ubuntu
* Wednesday-August 5, 2009
* Arizona Loco Team Wiki: [“ArizonaTeam”]

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

In this issue

New member flakeparadigm introduced himself. The Team welcomed flakeparadigm aboard.

johnc4510 , then gave some announcements:

* Canonical announced Canonical’s Desktop Support Services: including three offerings: Starter, Advanced and Professional. https://shop.canonical.com/

* Free Books For Approved LoCo Teams: Official Ubuntu Book, and Official Ubuntu Server Book. johnc4510 has already sent our request for our copies and is awaiting conformation on the order.

johnc4510 then gave a report from lenards on the venue for the installfest. johnc4510 also asked tyche about the “fill-in-the-blanks” flier, which is available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/22090195@N03/3702697843/

johnc4510 then asked xHans for the PLUG announcements:

* Devel meeting is this Thursday. http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/559

* Hackfest security mtg is this Saturday. http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/659

* The official press release annoucing ABLEconf 2009 Phoenix went out last week. http://www.ABLEconf.com/press_releases/2009Jul29.html

* Our call for presentations should go out in the next couple of weeks.

* Free Software Stammtisch in Prescott is next week, bring pillows and diapers for slofgren 🙂 [Ed Note: slofgren just became the proud father of a baby girl.]

Read the whole thing at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/Newsletters/09August5

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