Ubuntu Members Get Free LWN Subs

Mar 24, 2009

Good news, friends. From today Canonical is contributing a new benefit to Ubuntu Membership: a complimentary subscription to the rather glorious Linux Weekly News. Our friends in Debian have been doing this for a while, and we thought this could be an excellent gesture too.

To enjoy this benefit you need to be a member of the Ubuntu project. You can then follow this devilishly simple process to switch on your free subscription:

Apply for an account at LWN by clicking here.
Send a mail to my friend and yours Rachael at rachael.tripp (at) canonical dot com (preferably using your ubuntu.com address) asking for a subscription sponsorship. This email MUST contain:
- Your LWN username
- Your Launchpad username.
Rachael will then go and double check you are a member and not telling porkies.
You will receive an email when the subscription has been accepted and is ready to roll (or read).

More details about this and other membership related benefits are here.

Enjoy!

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8 Comments

Randy Belk on March 24, 2009 at 7:26 pm

I am a member of Launchpad and I didn’t know I had an ubuntu.com email address! Where do I find my ubuntu.com email address?
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- Jacob Peddicord on March 24, 2009 at 8:40 pm
  
  This is for Ubuntu Members — simply using Launchpad or Ubuntu does not make you a member automatically.
  
  See http://www.ubuntu.com/community/processes/newmember for more information.
  
  On the LWN side, very cool! Thanks Canonical and everyone involved! Sending in my info in a moment.
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ScottK on March 25, 2009 at 5:07 am

Thanks. This is appreciated.

FWIW, email addresses are trivially spoofable, so sending from an ubuntu.com address is pretty meaningless.
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Jerome Gotangco on March 25, 2009 at 6:10 am

What a pleasant surprise! Many thanks for making this happen.
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Scott Ritchie on March 26, 2009 at 12:12 am

Thanks Jono, I’m so in on this
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jldugger on March 26, 2009 at 8:51 am

Damn. I was just thinking about subscribing to LWN today. Guess I have something to do tomorrow.
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Russell on March 27, 2009 at 9:05 am

Awesome! Sending an email to Rachael right away. 🙂
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Umayangana on June 14, 2009 at 8:23 am

i want to Ubuntu OS
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