I’m about 100% sure that the next person to be interviewed needs no introduction – everybody will have heard of Jono at some point, whether it be from his role within the community, his activity on identi.ca & twitter, or maybe even from Lernid…Either way, I hope you enjoy this as much as I have!

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In the continued interests of helping to make Ubuntu rock as a platform for scratching itches and making awesome apps, I am putting together a new online learning event: Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week, happening online between 1st – 6th March 2010.

Amber Graner: This Ubuntu Women interview in the Women of Ubuntu Series is with Jane Silber, the current Canonical COO, but as of March 1st, 2010, she will be taking the reins of Canonical as the CEO. More about this announcement and Jane’s history with Canonical can be found here (http://blog.canonical.com/?p=307). First I want to welcome you Jane, and thank you for taking part in this interview series.

Jane Silber: Thanks very much. I’m delighted to have the opportunity to support the Ubuntu Women initiative.

This week we’re travelling to Central America to visit the Ubuntu Honduras team, a LoCo true to the Ubuntu ethos and a mission of their own: encourage and promote the use of free technology through Ubuntu in the Republic of Honduras.

I’m writing to you from the Ubuntu LoCo Council. For the Lucid cycle we have undertaken to look at the re approving all approved Ubuntu LoCos. This was discussed at UDS Lucid in November.(https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-lucid-loco-council-plans)

We thought it best to publicise and inform everyone about the re approval process of a LoCo. It was decided back at UDS to start this process. It gives us a chance to see how LoCos are doing, if they need a hand in areas and to give you a chance to give us some feedback.

How it will work, for all teams which have been approved over 2 years, a member of the LoCo Council is selected to be the point of contact with the LoCo team for re-approval, they will contact your Team contact / leader.

As elected by the Ubuntu development team, the members of the Developer Membership Board are now:

Colin Watson
Emmet Hikory
Soren Hansen
Michael Bienia
Stéphane Graber
Richard Johnson
Cody Somerville

They will serve for a 1 year term, helping to welcome new Ubuntu developers into the project, after which we will hold another election.

Thanks to everyone who volunteered to serve on the board.

[Discuss the Developer Membership Board election results on the forum]

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #176 for the week January 10th - January 16th, 2010 is available.

In this issue we cover:

* Ubuntu 10.4 Lucid Lynx Alpha 2
* Ubuntu Developer Week
* Ubuntu User Day
* New Ubuntu Women leadership
* Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase
* Kernel Bug Day
* Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 2 Removes HAL
* Ubuntu Stats
* The Planet
* In the Press & Blogosphere
* Upcoming Meetings & Events
* Updates & Security
* And much, much more!

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

Firstly, some introductory reading for those who are not familiar with International Women’s Day:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women%27s_Day and http://www.internationalwomensday.com/

Ubuntu-Women has tried in the past to find some way to celebrate this event, but as far as I can remember it has never really amounted to much other than some chattering on IRC. So let us try a bit harder for 2010!

We have all come to Ubuntu in our own special ways — every single one of us differently to the next. Yet one of the most common questions we get asked is "How can I get $woman to use Ubuntu?".

The Ubuntu User Days Team would like to announce the first Ubuntu User Day, on January 23, 2010. This will be a very informative one day session geared towards beginner and intermediate Ubuntu users, as well as people who are interested in using Ubuntu. We have 14 classes covering topics ranging from installing Ubuntu, finding help, equivalent programs, using IRC, getting involved in the Ubuntu Community and more. We have enlisted the help of many talented people to lead these classes throughout the day.

These classes will be taught in #ubuntu-classroom with questions being asked in #ubuntu-classroom-chat on irc.freenode.net. Please visit http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDays for a complete class list and schedule of classes.

This week’s story takes us to the United States, in
Florida, where a group of remarkable individuals have taken up the lofty goal of making the world a better place by way of Open Source. Let’s learn some more about our heroes.

Meet the Florida LoCo: a group of over 250 enthusiasts with a broad scope of interests, ranging from DJ’ing to System Administration, united by the Ubuntu spirit and a common master plan.

I have a feeling that not so many of you will have heard of Paultag, unless you’re on the Ubuntu Beginners Team, or the Ohio LoCo. But I’ve experienced Paul’s commitment to Ubuntu, and he’s always willing to help out…which is good, because I find myself asking him things surprisingly often He has some awesome programming projects, but I won’t give them away, I’m not sure if I’m meant to! So before I dig an even bigger hole – I give you Paultag!

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I’m delighted to announce the results of the Edubuntu Council Elections[0][1], the following nominees were all voted into the Council by the Edubuntu Members team: