This is a paste of the email I sent to the Ubuntu LoCo Contacts and Ubuntu LoCo Directory Mailing Lists:
Greetings;
The LoCo Directory Developers have been hard at work in the past few weeks
and this morning pushed out a new release of the LoCo Team Directory. One of
the major changes in the new version of the LoCo Team Directory is that
local times are finally displayed on event pages thanks to Michael Hall. The
time zone displayed is based upon the time zone specified for the venue that
is used. For example, if the …

The Ubuntu IRC Bots team is looking for volunteers who know python, or are interested in learning python to help out with development of the Ubuntu IRC bots. They recently created a tag called Junior Tasks for people who are interested in getting started with the Ubuntu IRC Bots team. If you are interested in helping out, join in at #ubuntu-bots-devel on freenode and visit the ubuntu-bots project on launchpad. We look forward to seeing you there!

Today Jono Bacon made a blog post about starting a Ubuntu Power Users Community. I personally think that this is a great idea and would love to help out with starting this community. I spoke with Jono about this on IRC, and would like to hear from other people who are interested in getting this setup. Jono originally tweeted calling this new community ‘Ubuntu Tweakers’ and nixternal quickly pointed out that a tweaker is a meth head, another definition according to Urban Dictionary is “Someone who constantly makes slight alterations …

Steve Langasek sent an email to the Ubuntu Announcement mailing list a few minutes ago announcing the release of Ubuntu 10.04 Beta 1. 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) is a Long Term Support release.
I have been using 10.04 since the Alpha 1 phase, and absolutely love it. I truly do believe that Ubuntu is moving in the right direction to solve Bug #1. Please download yourself a copy and give it a try!

One of the changes in Lucid is that there are no longer tooltip popups when you mouseover appindicator icons. One of these icons is the battery icon. Now, in order to get your battery status, you must click on the battery icon. You then have to click in the window that you were previously working in to continue working. In previous versions of Ubuntu, all you had to do was move your mouse over the battery icon, see the status, and then keep on working. This new change is adding …

It is my pleasure to announce a new project to better the Ubuntu.com website experience, specifically for users who prefer a language other than English. The new project, called Website Localization will put a short (4-5 word) message on any www.Ubuntu.com web page directing users to more resources in their preferred language.
This project has two main parts to it. The first part of the Website Localization project is the technical aspect of the project. It is the goal of the project to create a script that will pull out of …