Jorge Castro: Power user's team 12.04 roadmap.
Like all superhero movies, it’s back, this time with James Gifford driving the effort to help document “hot rodding” tips for power users. Here’s his proposal for a 12.04 roadmap. And here’s the wiki...
View ArticleMartin Albisetti: Ubuntu members over time
During the Community Council meeting yesterday we were talking about the general health and excitement levels of the community, and whether we were loosing a lot of members. I had a vague memory of us...
View ArticleJoel Leclerc: News about relinux
As you may have noticed, I’ve switched to launchpad.net instead of sourceforge.net. The reason for doing so is that sourceforge.net had to many problems with it, and I didn’t need all the extra...
View ArticleClay Weber: My UDS notes, part 1
Honored. Privileged. Amazed. I like to sum things in a couple of words whenever possible. But that is simply impossible to do in this case, so I think I will break it down into smaller chunks. Honored...
View ArticleRandall Ross: The Making of the UDS-P Group Shot
One of the highlights of UDS is the group shot. Those that make the fantasic product, platform, project that is Ubuntu gather to show the world that Ubuntu is also a community of people. Here we are...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Leadership Summit Part Two Today
Today part two of the leadership summit will be happening at UDS. This morning we fleshed out the topics we are going to discuss (each broken into 20 minute lightning discussions) and they include:...
View ArticleSeif Lotfy: Zeitgeist – from Python to Vala
The title says it all… You can read the announcement on Michal Hruby’s blog post. Zeitgeist has been ported from Python to Vala with its latest 0.9 cycle We started 2 weeks before the desktop summit...
View ArticleEdubuntu: Edubuntu WebLive surpasses 100 000 sessions
WebLive Milestone Yesterday, the Edubuntu WebLive service surpassed it's one hundred thousandth session. We're thrilled that so many people have taken the time to look at Edubuntu and find out just...
View ArticleSeif Lotfy: Gedit – Dash 0.1
At last you can try it out the gedit plugin that Hylke and I have been working on for the last couple of days.. In an experiment to for alternative “open file” dialogs we started experimenting with the...
View ArticleCanonical Design Team: Juju: a logo with a story
Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote this week at the Ubuntu Developer Summit includes introducing Juju, including a big slide showing off the new Juju logo. Below is the story of how that logo it came into...
View ArticleRandall Ross: Towards a Precise Ubuntu Community Lexicon. Or, Please Use...
This blog post is the twelfth in a series of many that I will be posting about UDS, the Ubuntu Developer Summit. Interesting ideas get generated when we meet and share our stories. That's the magic of...
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: Github Pull Request to Format Patch
This is something I’ve wanted for a while, but was never bothered to write it. I spent a few minutes hacking a set of shell scripts glued with a bit of Python to translate a pull request (for our...
View ArticleBenjamin Kerensa: 404 error Secure Boot problem not found
Back in October I posted about a problem one of the Ubuntu Oregon LoCo members was having and he specifically e-mailed me and requested I share it that way he could potentially get some help on the...
View ArticleAndre Noel: André Gondim
* André Gondim is the last one, at the right It’s hard to write this post, but I need to write to honor André Gondim. The notice came through twitter, later I confirmed through his facebook. He just...
View ArticleStephen Kelly: Grantlee v0.2 (codename Doppelt-gemoppelt) now available
The Grantlee community is pleased to announce the release of Grantlee version 0.2 (Mirror). This release is source and binary compatible with the 0.1 series. Initially I thought I’d be able to make the...
View ArticleJoe Liau: Ubuntu: Haemorrhaging Horse
My horses is bleeding! In Oesys mythology, the Haemorrhaging Horse is a problem that plagues horses in the great race of Oesys. The condition causes horses to bleed to death before they can reach the...
View ArticleUbuntu Cloud Portal: Learn some JuJu at the UDS Charm School
If you’ve been doing anything with Ubuntu lately, chances are you’ve been hearing a lot of buzz about Juju. If you’re attending UDS, then there’s also a good chance that you’ve been to one or more...
View ArticleDarcy Casselman: Recognizing city teams
Free software and open source, at least the non-corporate part, is a reputation economy. Sure, lots of people do things to scratch their own itch, but by and large, the ones who go above and beyond do...
View ArticleElizabeth Krumbach: UDS-P in Orlando: Day 4
Day 4! It was very obviously day 4 at UDS as everyone was moving a bit slower this morning :) – Community Roundtable – We started off the roundtable by identifying subjects for the Leadership...
View ArticlePaul Hummer: YUIConf 2011 Day 1
Day 1 of YUIConf 2011 is over. I didn't keep copious notes that are coherent to anyone but myself. Here is a congealed version of my notes (hopefully they aren't too hard to follow). Dav Glass -...
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