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Mathieu Trudel: Ubuntu Global Jam in Montreal: help testing and fixing bugs...
We're doing it again!Here in Montreal we're just about ready to start jamming this weekend. Rooms have been confirmed, and we already have a fair amount of interest from what I can see in the LoCo...
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Paul Tagliamonte: Columbus Ohio Global Jam
Hello, World! Check it out! Gilbert ( From Debian fame ) is going to be running the Columbus, Ohio Global Jam! Here’s his email – I am officially announcing the upcoming Ubuntu Global Jam in Columbus...
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Paul Tagliamonte: Cleveland, Ohio Global Jam
Cleveland’s having a jam, too! I expect ya’ll Cleveland-ers to show up! Guys and gals, We're on for Global Jam! We'll be gathering for Ubuntu Global Jam on Saturday August 28th at the Panera Bread in...
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Mackenzie Morgan: Is packaging new software hard?
EDIT: Sorry Planet readers. I tried adding a "read more" thing to shorten it, but apparently that doesn't change the RSS feed, just the blog's front page. And yes, I will fix up the Ubuntu Wiki later....
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Ben Collins: Solo6x10: Recording from video
I've finally gotten around to writing an example program for recording from Solo6x10 devices to a file. This program is very basic. It leaves the video device in it's default state (resolution, frame...
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Mark Shuttleworth: Open textbooks to the rescue
Mark Horner is a Fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation. The model of the Foundation is unusual: we identify interesting change agents, like Mark, who are articulating powerful ideas that seem like the...
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Charles Profitt: Oracle: 0 – Google: 0 – C#/Microsoft: 1
How interesting it is now that a few days have passed in the Oracle v. Google soap opera there are those crowing over how Mono and .Net is less patent encumbered than Java. This (Java Patent Grant) is...
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Paolo Sammicheli: First Debian/Ubuntu Community Conference in Italy
The Italian Mini-Debconf and the Ubuntu-it meeting will be held together, in an collaborative community conference called DUCC-IT 2010. It will be held in Perugia on Saturday 18 September,...
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Ralph Janke: Ubuntu LAN Party at Kwartzlab was a lot of fun!
Kwartzlab got a new type of event which has been beta tested early this month: The Ubuntu LAN Party! Eric organised this first event, which remained solely within the realms of kwatzlab and gave the...
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Laura Czajkowski: Maverick Meerkat Release Parties
Not long left till Maverick Meerkat aka 10.10 is released with that in mind it’s time for loco teams to start to plan for their release party. I’ve added the global event to the LoCo Directory...
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Greg Grossmeier: Jamming in Michigan!
That’s right, the Michigan LoCo Team will again be participating in the Ubuntu Global Jam. We’ll be at the always welcoming SRT Solutions location in downtown Ann Arbor (map) graciously provided by...
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Matt Zimmerman: DebConf 10: Last day and retrospective
DebConf continued until Saturday, but Friday the 6th was my last day as I left New York that evening. I’m a bit late in getting this summary written up. Making Debian Rule, Again (Margarita Manterola)...
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Harald Sitter: i18n Semantics Cheat Sheet
For quite some time when applying formatting in GUI development one either needs to apply directly visual HTML markup or some sort of odd plain text formatting. Thankfully the internationalization...
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Adam Sommer: Maverick Server Guide
Hey all,Just wanted to do a quick post about updates in the Ubuntu Server Guide. With Maverick we have dropped the ubuntu-serverguide package. This means that the guide will only be available in HTML...
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Amber Graner: Failure to Communicate (Podcast) – Episode 1
Welcome to Episode #1 of “Failure to Communicate” with Me and JFo! This week talk about “Takin’ Up Space” So sit back and enjoy the laughs - at us or with us – just laugh as we ramble for a few...
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Lucas Nussbaum: System calls quizz
What is special about the socket, connect, bind, accept, … system calls? How does the errno value get from the kernel to applications? Some system calls return a number of times different of 1 in some...
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Dax Solomon Umaming: Ubuntu Global Jam in Manila, Philippines
The Philippine Team will be joining the worldwide community of Ubuntu users in celebrating the Ubuntu Global Jam. An online IRC session on translations (and hopefully, packaging) is scheduled on the...
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Jono Bacon: Rocking The Application Indicators
Some time back the Ayatana project introduced the Application Indicator Framework, based upon technology created by the KDE project. We have been shipping this technology in Ubuntu for a few releases...
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Martin Owens: When to Have an Agenda
Recently I’ve found myself having to balance more precariously how I approach local community based activities. Say if I’m going to be teaching Free Software use, then should I be putting to one side...
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Eric Hammond: Alestic.com Sponsorship
A quick but heartfelt note of thanks to Ben Cherian at ServiceCloud, a long term supporter and faithful sponsor of Alestic.com (2 years!). Ben started sponsoring this site, supporting the public...
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