Anthony Hook: Ubuntu Wisconsin Presentation – Success
Rick Schwai’s resentation was a great success in Rhinelander! We had 13 people in attendance. My wife and I were happy to attend, and I provided any clarification on questions during the presentation,...
View ArticleJorge Castro: Open Week Schedule Finalized, come get some
We’re all set to go for Open Week. We’ve got some great sessions lined up. We’ve got contributing at a local leve, loco team portal, juju for devops, getting started with ubuntu development, ubuntu...
View ArticleScott Kitterman: KDE 4.0 for Kmail: Kmail2/Akonadi in 11.10
This will be Kubuntu’s first release with the new Kmail2 that uses Akonadi to store all your mail related data (and more) in a database. It is slow, unreliable, and extremely resource hungry. It can be...
View ArticleUbuntu Classroom: Ubuntu (11.10) Open Week: October 17-21, 2011
What is Ubuntu Open Week? Ubuntu Open Week is a week of IRC tuition and Q+A sessions all about getting involved in the rock-and-roll world that is the Ubuntu community. We organise this...
View ArticleThe Fridge: Ubuntu (11.10) Open Week: October 17-21, 2011
What is Ubuntu Open Week? Ubuntu Open Week is a week of IRC tuition and Q+A sessions all about getting involved in the rock-and-roll world that is the Ubuntu community. We organise this...
View ArticleJorge Castro: Let's make it personal.
One thing Jono’s talked about in the past is how to make Ubuntu more personal. One of the things that suck about the internet is that we’re all behind monitors and keyboards, and it’s hard to remember...
View ArticleKurt von Finck: What’s Next?
Just a heads-up that today, October 12, is my last official working day at Monty Program. The change is bittersweet. Bitter because I will very much miss working with a very talented team. Sweet...
View ArticleJorge Castro: Looking for some LoCo Team Portal Developers
Being able to find each other is a key part of building community. I mean, what’s the point of having a release party if no one knows where to go? This is why we have tools for bringing people...
View ArticleMartin Owens: New Release Born
May I welcome to the world Violet Phoebe Lord Owens, little girl born 4:11pm EST, 5lb 3oz to mother Kama Lord and father Martin Owens. Congratulations to mother who did wonderfully and mother and baby...
View ArticleIain Lane: Robin Hood beer festival 2011
Greetings real ale fans, This most exciting time of year is almost upon us again. Yes, it's the Nottingham Robin Hood Beer Festival! This year I have followed in the footsteps of Alex and Karen and...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Ubuntu 11.10 and London Release Party
Today we release Ubuntu 11.10: Oneiric Ocelot after a busy six months of work. Thank you to everyone who participated in this release and put their brick in the wall. We had many wonderful...
View ArticleDavid Tomaschik: Deploying Puppet
At work, we're in the process of deploying Puppet as a configuration management tool. Since we've just begun, I'm obviously no expert on Puppet, but I thought I would share what I've learned so far....
View ArticleBryan Quigley: Ubuntu Community in Trouble?
I am looking at alternatives to Ubuntu, in particular I like: Fedora - Gives me a cutting edge open source graphics stack. I really have been enjoying their implementation of Gnome Shell (with...
View ArticleMaia Grotepass: Yes! we have a Oneiric Release Party
Hmm, due to time constraints, multi-tasking and even a bit of attention thrashing, our organisational skills for this round were a bit oneiric but I am happy to say we have a release party for this...
View ArticleAra Pulido: We are hiring!
The Ubuntu Hardware Certification team is growing! I am happy to announce that the hardware certification team is growing and we are now looking for a Certification Engineer to work in our lab in...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Join The Online Ubuntu Release Party
#ubuntu-release-party on freenode IRC is all you need to know. Come and join the fun!
View ArticleAndrea Colangelo: Dennis Ritchie, 1941-2011
A friend of mine said: “I owe him everything I am in my job”. Today is Oneiric Release Day. I guess we really should dedicate Ubuntu 11.10 to Dennis Ritchie. Most of what we are now couldn’t be...
View ArticleGuy Van Sanden: Upgrading to Drupal 7, not always easy
I have several sites running on Drupal (which is great). Just after D7 came out, I started using it as the basis for all new sites I set up. But recently, I upgraded 2 of my old D6 sites to D7 and...
View ArticleRyan Kavanagh: New Kubuntu Wiki Theme
The Kubuntu Wiki has a new wiki theme based off of the Ubuntu Light wiki theme found on the Ubuntu Wiki. If you want to make this theme your default theme, head to your preferences page and set your...
View ArticleUbuntu Release blog: Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) Released!
The dreams that inspired this release are now in running code, and available for your download. We would like to acknowledge the debt of gratitude owed by everyone in the Unix community to Dennis...
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