Lydia Pintscher: 15 years of KDE
15 years ago today marks the beginning of what today is a large, worldwide, rocking team producing Free Software. We’re creating programs that are used by so many people all around the world – on their...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Onwards and Upwards
Thanks to everyone who came to the Ubuntu UK Release Party last night. It was so wonderful to catch up with so many new and old friends. It was also wonderful to hear everyone’s generally positive...
View ArticleLaura Czajkowski: Elected to the Ubuntu Community Council
I’m somewhat gobsmacked here. I and 6 others have been elected to the Ubuntu Council. There were many excellent candidates and all are deserving. Thank you to all those who voted and took part in...
View ArticleRandall Ross: Ubuntu 11.10: Word on the Street
Ubuntu 11.10 is out and has been "in the wild" for a couple days now. (Yes, I'm a master of stating the obvious.) One of the highlights (for me) of an Ubuntu release is watching and analyzing what the...
View ArticleAmber Graner: SCALE 10X to host SCALE Kids Conference
LOS ANGELES – For the first time ever, the Southern California Linux Expo will host the SCALE Kids Conference, a free and open source event where the community leaders of tomorrow will be able to...
View ArticleUbuntu Women: Ubuntu Women Month of Making: Maile Urbancic
Hello! My name is Maile Urbancic, and I made Ubuntu earrings. Last year I founded BoutiqueAcademia.com, a small business that carries STEM-themed jewelry and accessories. There is great beauty to be...
View ArticleUbuntu Women: Ubuntu Women Month of Making: Vote now!
When the Ubuntu Women project launched our Month of Making in honor of Ada Lovelace Day on October 7th we decided to take a very broad approach to “Make” and were excited to learn what women in the...
View ArticleCharles Profitt: Ubuntu 11.10 Has Landed
For many 11.10 is already on their machine(s), but today was the day to being installing and upgrading. So far the process was smooth as silk. I reinstalled on my work laptop (Lenovo W520), home laptop...
View ArticleCharles Profitt: New Ubuntu Community Council Elected
First off I would like to congratulate all the new and continuing members of the Ubuntu Community Council. Daniel Holbach Elizabeth Krumbach Laura Czajkowski Amber Graner Emmet Hikory Scott Ritchie...
View ArticleElizabeth Krumbach: Ubuntu 11.10 in Philadelphia
My fiancé is a network engineer who frequently has to travel for conferences, and this month I tagged along for a week to visit my old home of Philadelphia. I decided I would attend a meeting of the...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Weekly Canonical Community Team Meetings Now On IRC
Each week I organize a Google+ Hangout for our Canonical Community Team meeting. This regular team meeting is where we share roundtables of work each of us has been doing, sync up on projects and...
View ArticleJono Bacon: New Community Council
I was delighted to see the results of the Community Council vote. It is great to see some familiar faces on the council as well as some new blood. I am looking forward to working with the CC in the...
View ArticleMaia Grotepass: Oneiric Ocelot Release Party Cape Town.
We are at Panzerotti's in Canal Walk.
View ArticlePasi Lallinaho: Nominated for Xubuntu Project Lead
It’s official now. I have been nominated for the new Xubuntu Project Lead and I’ve confirmed that I am willing to fill the position too. The vote is on the 23rd of October at the Xubuntu Community...
View ArticleMilo Casagrande: Conferences Around the World
It has been a busy period, getting ready for various things, and various travels. Right now I’m writing this post from the Ubuntu-it meeting in Bologna, with a great amount of people from the Italian...
View ArticleCharles Profitt: Oneiric gone wrong, but rescued.
The upgrade/reinstall process went well on all my machines save a self-built computer with a DP865GRH mainboard and an Nvidia 6800 video card. The first attempt was using the upgrade process which was...
View ArticleMark Shuttleworth: Welcoming the new Community Council
Congratulations to those elected to the 2011-2013 CC, and thanks both to those who were willing to serve and all of those who participated in the poll. We’ll use the results of the poll should we need...
View ArticleCanonical Design Team: Thanks a billion! Ubuntu on Google Webfonts
Kudos to everyone using the Ubuntu Font Family on their websites as a web font! This week the total to date reached over one billion requests—and it’ll go up even faster if you add Ubuntu Mono and...
View ArticleCharles Profitt: Ubuntu 11.10 and .docx issue – fixed!
Today I got a .docx attachment in email and when I double-clicked on it I got the result below: To fix this I went to the .docx file, right clicked and selected properties. Then clicked on the “open...
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