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Pablo Rubianes: Something big is coming South
Normally huge Ubuntu events take place in the North (Europe/USA) so with that in mind Argentina and Uruguay LoCo Teams are working together to bring the First UbuConLAin May, an yearly event, taking...
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Duncan McGreggor: Occupy's Declaration of Independence
Illustration by Peter Whitley There's one thing I would really, really love to see under the tree this year -- under everyone's tree: Occupy the World. For the first time in history, it seems that...
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Siegfried Gevatter: Debian Games Team Meeting
This announcement was provided by Martin Erik Werner. I’m reproducing it for Planet Ubuntu. The Debian/Ubuntu Games Team is organizing another meeting. If you’re into developing and/or packaging of...
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Jason Gerard DeRose: Note on Ubuntu One dropping CouchDB sync
Today it was announced that Ubuntu One will be dropping support for CouchDB sync. We already knew this was coming as John Lenton and Stuart Langridge kindly gave us a private heads-up the first day of...
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Randall Ross: Ubuntu Community Lexicon, Part 2
This blog post is a follow-up to UDS-P, the Ubuntu Developer Summit. "Ubuntu Community". What does it mean? During UDS-P, I asked publicly for a favour: When we speak about community, lets use...
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Ubuntu Women: Career Days: From Developer to CEO Wrap-up
On Saturday, November 12th, we welcomed Canonical CEO Jane Silber to the Ubuntu Women Career Days to give us an overview of her career in tech from her beginnings as a Software Developer to her current...
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Jono Bacon: The Ubuntu Commons
One of the most wonderful things about Open Source and collaborative community is that every community member participates in a commons; a shared area of community real-estate in which we can all...
View ArticlePasi Lallinaho: Roadmap closed
The planning period for Xubuntu Precise Pangolin has ended. All in all, we have fifteen (15!) roadmap items with assignees! Thanks for all of you who submitted ideas, discussed the roadmap items and...
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Eric Hammond: Rebooting vs. Stop/Start of Amazon EC2 Instance
When you reboot a physical computer at your desk it is very similar to shutting down the system, and booting it back up. With Amazon EC2, rebooting an instance is much the same as with a local physical...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 242
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #242 for the week November 14 – 20, 2011, and the full version is available here. In this Issue we cover: Ask Mark, Wednesday, 23 November,...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: [Precise] linux kernel 3.2.0-1.2 uploaded
We have uploaded a new Precise linux kernel. The most notable changes are as follows: * Allow brcmsmac and b43 to both build * Add ixgbe driver to d-i * Enable CONFIG_NFC and associated devices The...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Canonical Community Team IRC Meeting
Just a quick reminder, tomorrow (Tues 22nd Nov 2011) we will be holding our usual weekly Canonical Community Team meeting at 8am Pacific / 11am Eastern / 4pm UK / 5pm Europe. The meeting takes place in...
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Ubuntu Cloud Portal: Charm School!
Wanna learn more about juju? Drop by Charm School: Details from Jorge’s post: We're holding a Charm School on IRC. juju Charm School is a virtual event where a juju expert is available to answer...
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Aaron Toponce: Tab Completing Aliases For Multiple Accounts In Mutt
In mutt, you can setup multiple accounts, and use account hooks (complete with key bindings) to change to those accounts. I have a Gmail account and a work account. In my Gmail account, I use goobook...
View ArticleDougie Richardson: Developing a developer
Still some way to completing my degree part-time (at the end of this academic year I’m half way). I’m not soliciting my services – just looking for advice from the community and if anyone has a few...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: [Precise] linux kernel 3.2.0-1.3 uploaded
We have uploaded a new Precise linux kernel. The most notable change is as follows: * Add ext2 to fs-core-modules The full changelog can be seen at: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/3.2.0-1.3
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Raphaël Hertzog: People behind Debian: Stefano Zacchiroli, Debian Project Leader
picture by Tiago Bortoletto Vaz, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 It’s been one year since the first People behind Debian interview. For this special occasion, I wanted a special guest… and I’m happy that our Debian...
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Jono Bacon: Canonical Community Team 12.04 Plans
With the Ubuntu Developer Summit now completed and the team back home and rested, I have been working with the horsemen to finalize, document, and define their focus in the 12.04 cycle. At the...
View ArticleLaunchpad News: Launchpad translations service disruption update
Launchpad translations was due to be unavailable from 10.00 UTC for around one hour this morning to allow us to set up translations for the next Ubuntu release, Precise Pangolin (to be 12.04 LTS)....
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The Fridge: Edubuntu Council Elections
The Edubuntu Council is up for re-election. If you’d like to nominate an Edubuntu Member for the Council, please confirm with the person that he or she is willing to stand and then post the nomination...
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