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Matt Zimmerman: Traveling at home
For me, the most enjoyable part of traveling is the inspiration that I derive from visiting different places, talking to people, and generally being outside of my normal environment. This bank holiday...
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Ralph Janke: Ubuntu Hour in Waterloo, Ontario on September 1, 2010
As Ubuntu Hour is starting to be a regular occurrence in the Waterloo region, the next one will be happening on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 8pm. The location will be Whole Lotta Gelata, probably a...
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Dustin Kirkland: How My Work Benefits Free Software
I'm personally offended when Canonical and Ubuntu are dogged about a perceived lack of contribution to the Free Software ecosystem.So I'd like to talk about the work I have been doing at Canonical on...
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Jose Ernesto Davila Pantoja: Ubuntu Global Jam - Nicaragua
As part of the Ubuntu Global Jam, some friends of the Ubuntu Nicaraguan Team joinned past Sunday at Hotel Masión Teodolinda to be part of this great party.The main goal of the event was to translate...
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Jono Bacon: Incredible Stories Of Free Software and Open Source
A little while back I blogged about wanting to reconnect with our ethos. In a continuation of that theme I am keen to talk about stories. I have talked about stories quite a bit in my writings on...
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Seif Lotfy: … the alternative to Seif Lotfy
As stupid as it sounds I do get frustrated when people get my name wrong. It is Seif Lotfy (here is a wikipedia link for the meaning and pronunciation of Seif). I hear and read some mispronunciations...
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Jani Monoses: Ubuntu CD syslinux boot splash question
Does anyone reading this know what program was used to create the splash.pcx file that is the first thing coming up when the CD boots? It has a small text in the new font saying 'ubuntu' with a subtle...
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Jacob Peddicord: OLF Registration - Last call!
In under 2 days registration for Ohio LinuxFest will close. I can't stress enough how awesome this event is and how you (yes, you) should register and attend. You can't beat free....
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #208
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #208 for the week of August 22nd - August 28th and is available here. In this issue we cover: 11.04 Ubuntu Developer Summit Announced Getting...
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Daniel Holbach: What I do
In the first weeks when I started contributing to the Ubuntu community about six years ago, I was constantly amazed at a number of things: how friendly, encouraging and motivating people were: in a...
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Duane Hinnen: CLIcompanion-1.0rc goes international
The CLIcompanion Development Team are happy to announce that CLIcompanion-1.0rc is now available on our Launchpad page as well as the PPA. Thanks to an awesome development team, and some great users...
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Stephan Hermann: Some gifts just before Ubuntu Maverick Beta rollout
Some gifts for you:FAI 3.4We removed FAI during the Karmic or Lucid cycle, I don't know anymore. Since then the FAI community (Debian/Grml/Ubuntu) worked hard to get FAI back into the Ubuntu...
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The Fridge: Announcing Ubuntu App Developer Week!
Announcing Ubuntu App Developer Week! It’s that time again! Ubuntu App Developer Week (Formally Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week), is happening online between September 27th through October 1st,...
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Laura Czajkowski: LoCo Team banners for Approved teams
Following on from my post last week regarding the up to date conference packs and the new banners for APPROVED teams, we have created a new wiki page we need the team contact to fill in. Again, a big...
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Luke Faraone: Generating manpages with help2man
To quote the ftp-masters REJECT-FAQ : Write manpages. Yes. Really. Write them. Well. It’s basically: If your program/tool has a help and version commandline option you can simply run help2man and have...
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Alex Launi: Gudev-sharp and GKeyfile-sharp have moved
They’re now both hosted on github with the rest of Mono. Check it out! http://github.com/mono/gudev-sharp and http://github.com/mono/gkeyfile-sharp.
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Ubuntu QA blog: Announcing the Next Ubuntu Bug Day! September 2nd 2010: Have...
Fellow Ubuntu Triagers! This week's Bug Day target is *drum roll please* Empathy! * 44 New bugs need a hug * 109 Incompletes bugs need a status check * 23 Confirmed bugs need a review Bookmark it, add...
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Jordi Mallach: De mar a mar, hiking across the Pyrenees
Two weeks ago, Maria and I completed one of our dreams when we arrived in Cap de Creus, where the Pyrenean range sinks in the Mediterranean. To get there, we walked hundreds of kilometres during a...
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The Fridge: Call for testing, Gwibber (Lucid and Maverick)
Today is the day affectionately known as “Twitter’s OAuthpocalypse”. Twitter is shutting down basic auth completely, which Gwibber has relied on. So after today Twitter will cease to work for anyone...
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Joey Stanford: Rest in Peace Ian
Ian Clatworthy died 2010-08-31. Rest in Peace my dear friend Ian. You were too young to go. http://ianclatworthy.wordpress.com/about/
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