Jorge Castro: OpenWeek Summary for Tuesday
NOTE! We are starting a bit early today at 1300UTC, and also today tomorrow we have Rick Spencer’s Q+A. Rick is the engineering manager for the Ubuntu Platform, so he’s got good working knowledge of...
View ArticleDavid Planella: Translations and App development sessions today at the Ubuntu...
Just a heads up that this week is Ubuntu Open Week! Ubuntu Open Week is a series of online workshops where you can: Learn about the Ubuntu landscape Talk to some of the key developers from the Ubuntu...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: One year of LibreOffice
Not so long ago, OpenOffice.org was the less attractive project of the Linux ecosystem. You would need it, you would use it daily but you would not think it was possible to contribute to that project...
View ArticleThe Fridge: OpenWeek Summary for Tuesday
NOTE! We are starting a bit early today at 1300UTC, and also today we have Rick Spencer’s Q+A. Rick is the engineering manager for the Ubuntu Platform, so he’s got good working knowledge of Ubuntu as a...
View ArticleUbuntu Classroom: OpenWeek Summary for Tuesday
NOTE! We are starting a bit early today at 1300UTC, and also today tomorrow we have Rick Spencer’s Q+A. Rick is the engineering manager for the Ubuntu Platform, so he’s got good working knowledge of...
View ArticleJorge Castro: Mobile schedule for UDS
The guidebook mobile schedule for UDS-P is now ready, install it here: And just search for UDS in the application. Then you’ll have the UDS schedule, events, sponsorship information, and maps in your...
View ArticleDaniel Holbach: Ubuntu Packaging Guide – we need help!
The Ubuntu Packaging Guide has made a lot of progress since its inception and we have a bunch of great articles together already, which make it a lot easier for newcomers to get a sense of direction...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Ubuntu Community Q+A Videocast Today
Just a quick reminder that today (Wed 19th Oct 2011) I will be running my Ubuntu Q+A live videocast. This is an hour of Q+A where all questions about Ubuntu, Canonical, or anything else are welcome. It...
View ArticleRohan Garg: KDE Doc Camp Day 2
KDE was selected for the awesome KDE Doc Camp Sprint here in Mountain View. Our primary aim is to write a beginner’s guide to KDE Development. The booking is coming along quite nicely, we have fleshed...
View ArticleAdnan Quaium: Happy Birthday, Ubuntu!
Seven years ago, on the 20th of October, 2004, Mark Shuttleworth and the warm-hearted Warthogs of the Warty Team announced the first official Ubuntu release – Ubuntu 4.10, code name “Warty Warthog”....
View ArticleUbuntu Cloud Portal: The Magic Number 4
We're less than two weeks away from the next Ubuntu Developer Summit, in Orlando, Florida, where nearly 700 techies will define the enterprise Linux landscape for the next decade.You: "Come on, Dustin,...
View ArticleKen VanDine: Social Networking in Ubuntu 11.10
Today I hosted an Ubuntu Open Week session on social networking in Ubuntu 11.10. I decided to convert my notes from the session into a blog post, enjoy! Ubuntu includes a social networking desktop...
View ArticleIain Lane: Running old Mono applications on Ubuntu 11.10
Ello, This is a quick public service announcement. Earlier today, ajmitch reminded me of a little gotcha that exists around Mono applications in Ubuntu 11.10. As a five second summary, in 11.10 the...
View ArticleAurélien Gâteau: Crossfade!
I have been a bit quite lately, but haven’t been slacking Among other things, I started working on implementing one of the oldest most-wanted feature of Gwenview: crossfade transitions between images....
View ArticleMyriam Schweingruber: When is a bug report useful?
Every now and then we get the same complaints about bug reports again: Either it is a complaint by the user who feels her/his report doesn’t get enough attention from the developers or it is the...
View ArticleMark Shuttleworth: Precision Planning; Prepping for 12.04 LTS
In just over a week, quite a large cross-section of the Ubuntu community and representatives from many free software projects and companies will gather in Orlando to map out the Precise Pangolin. Now’s...
View ArticleAmber Graner: OpenWeek Summary for Wednesday
Day 4 of Ubuntu Open Week starts at 1400 UTC today. Today’s schedule (Thursday, October 20th, 2011) includes a Q&A with Rick Spencer. As Jorge Castro said yesterday, “Rick is the engineering...
View ArticleThe Fridge: OpenWeek Summary for Wednesday
Day 4 of Ubuntu Open Week starts at 1400 UTC today. Today’s schedule (Thursday, October 20th, 2011) includes a Q&A with Rick Spencer. As Jorge Castro said yesterday, “Rick is the engineering...
View ArticleThe Fridge: Precision Planning; Prepping for 12.04 LTS
In just over a week, quite a large cross-section of the Ubuntu community and representatives from many free software projects and companies will gather in Orlando to map out the Precise Pangolin. Now’s...
View ArticleMartin Pitt: Happy Birthday Ubuntu!
7 years ago, The Ubuntu 4.10 “The Warty Warthog” was announced. A huge congrats to the community, Canonical, and especially Mark for getting so far from “there” to “here”. This brings back old memories...
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