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This week, between May 21-May 22 2013, took place Ubuntu Open Week, a set of sessions conducted on IRC where Ubuntu developers answered questions addressed by Ubuntu users.

As part of Ubuntu Open Week, Mark Shuttleworth participated to the Ask Mark! session, talking about exciting Ubuntu goals and objectives, as well as revealing interesting details about upcoming Ubuntu components, such as related to:

Since the public announcement of Ubuntu Touch in the beginning of 2013, Canonical is working hard on adding new and new features to Ubuntu Touch, introducing on an almost-daily basis new functionalities, enhancements and optimizations to the fancy, innovative and modern Ubuntu Touch OS.

Along with gestures, ingenious manners of interacting with windows (like for example, side stage), worked-on-detail elements, performance has been thoroughly addressed (and it is being addressed), development energy aimed at providing a fast, fluid, snappy and responsive overall experience.

Recently, Skype, the powerful globally-used communication tool, has been updated to version 4.2, introducing a series of under-the-hood enhancements and optimizations.

Skype 4.2 comes with fixed navigation issues, as well as improvements while logging in from Microsoft accounts and enhanced remembrance for account details.

Blender is a powerful, complete and professional 3D suite for modeling, animation, post-production, rendering, interactive creation, playback, etc, rooted into an advanced interface.

Blender has been updated to version 2.67a, version presenting itself as a bug-fixes release.

Community involvement, solid reliable guidance from Ubuntu developers, professional designs created by versed Ubuntu designers, are qualities of Ubuntu Touch Core Apps.

Basically, Ubuntu Touch Core Apps is an official movement that has gathered a solid set of relevant apps, effort aimed at landing the now-in-progress apps in the upcoming Ubuntu Touch stable releases.

Sometimes, there are cases demanding that certain messages to be created and sent accordingly only for other human receivers' eyes, while retaining a non-intelligible form for other viewers.

Usually, encryption tools come with advanced, complicated interfaces and actions, forcing the user to spend a significant amount of time learning their usage and recommended manners.

GibberEng is a very simplistic message-encryption tool, presenting itself as an instantly-graspable tool, while preserving usefulness and reliability.

Recently, the Document Foundation released LibreOffice 4.0.3, version presenting itself as a bug-fixes release, introducing more than 100 bug fixes.

LibreOffice 4.0.3 has landed in its official PPA, moreover, adding support for multiple Ubuntu versions, including Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu 12.10.

Ubuntu Touch Core Apps is an exciting official project that gathers a set of applications aimed at being included in the stable Ubuntu Touch releases (filtered through the needs and requirements of hardware manufacturers, etc).

Simple Scan is a simplistic yet reliable and effective document-scanning utility, allowing users to perform scanning actions via a clear, intuitive and easily-graspable interface.

Launching Simple Scan, the user is met by relevant buttons on its toolbar, including Scan, Crop, Save, etc, thus performing document scans in a matter of seconds.

Simple Scan 3.8 has landed in Saucy Salamander (via the regular updates), introducing various refinements and long-awaited features.

It is a clear common fact, is it not, that community participation and involvement are at the very center of Ubuntu, spread-across-the-Earth community members being (on demand) actively engaged in contributing code, generating translations, pointing out should-bes, being vocal about shouldn't-bes, etc.

The community involvement is paired with a significant number of official initiatives, among which Ubuntu Open Week.