Ubuntu Cloud Portal: Webinar Charm School tomorrow, Santa Clara, CA on Monday
The juju world tour continues, tomorrow at 9am PST (that’s 1700GMT) we have our first juju Charm School Webinar. We already have over 100 people signed up to attend, so if you’re deploying on the cloud...
View ArticleThomas Martin: Moving to Arch from Ubuntu (Again)
& For the past several months I have been bouncing around between Ubuntu (and Debian/other Debian-based distributions) and Arch Linux, and I think that for what I want to do with Linux, I have...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Ubuntu Forums and Ask Ubuntu
Support is an important part of any community, and I just wanted to offer my thanks and gratitude to both our Ubuntu Forums and Ask Ubuntu communities. The Ubuntu Forums has seen incredible growth and...
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: I'm going to PyCon!
I’ll be at PyCon with some of the Sunlight crew, and we’ll be hosting a Hackathon after the talks. I hope anyone in the area will consider hacking with us this year. If you’re going to PyCon, send me...
View ArticleJim Kielman: It’s official
It’s official, the Ubuntu Development Releases Testing Team is now open for membership. Check the wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/U+1 Effenberg0x0 has done all of the preliminary work, in contacting the...
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Raphaël Hertzog: People Behind Debian: Gregor Hermann, member of the Perl team
Photo by Aigars MahinovsI followed Gregor’s evolution within Debian because I used to be somewhat active in the Perl team. His case is exemplar because it shows that you don’t need to be an IT...
View ArticleMichael Hall: Contributing to Unity for non-developers: Package patching
Bazaar is a great tool for distributed development, but distros are built on packages, and so packages are what distro developer care about. That’s why many of you who have followed my previous blogs...
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Eric Hammond: Use the Same Architecture (64-bit) on All EC2 Instance Types
A few hours ago, Amazon AWS announced that all EC2 instance types can now run 64-bit AMIs. Though t1.micro, m1.small, and c1.medium will continue to also support 32-bit AMIs, it is my opinion that...
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Mark Shuttleworth: Government use of Ubuntu
Governments are making increasingly effective use of Ubuntu in large-scale projects, from big data to little schools. There is growing confidence in open source in government quarters, and growing...
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Jonathan Riddell: CeBIT 2012
"CeBIT is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to CeBIT."...
View Articles.fox: An Open Letter To The Ubuntu Community
Historically speaking the Ubuntu Forums has struggled interacting with wider areas of the community. I suppose the obvious question is why? I would like to explore this question further and hopefully...
View ArticleUbuntu Cloud Portal: Charm School webinar video available.
Thank you to all 125 participants in the juju Webinar. Did you miss it? It’s ok, there’s a video available here: Watch this and other Ubuntu Cloud videos on our video channel.
View ArticleKubuntu: Plasma and KDE Applications 4.8.1 Updates
Keen KDE Software users can find Plasma and KDE Applications 4.8.1 updates in the backport PPA for 11.10 and compiling now in the main archive for our development release. Bugs in the packaging should...
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Amber Graner: Stepping Down Gracefully in Practice.
I haven’t been blogging much lately, due to my new job at Linaro, currently I am their User Experience and Community Specialist, and I am loving it! My nature is to give everything I work on my full...
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Jono Bacon: Call All Django Web Developers
Are you a web developer who uses Django to build web apps? We are looking for a developer to contribute to the Ubuntu Accomplishments editor to help make it easy for people to contribute documentation...
View ArticleDaniel Holbach: Today is a good day!
Today is a good day to join Ubuntu development. Here’s your own, personal checklist: You like doing some detective work. Reading some docs or using the terminal does not scare you. You might have...
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Dustin Kirkland: Video Podcast with Amber Graner
I spent a good half hour on Monday morning with Amber Graner of Linaro. This was my first experience with G+ On Air, a mechanism for conducting video interviews over G+ Hangouts and record them for...
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Fumihito YOSHISA: Ubuntu Magazine Japan Vol.07 has been released!
Today, Ubuntu Magazine Japan (a.k.a. "Ubumaga") Vol.07 has been released (Publiciched by ASCII MEDIA WORKS Inc.). Ubumaga available at bookstores in Japan....
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Randall Ross: A Couple of Precise Jams
I've been "hunting" for photos of the Ubuntu Global Jam (Precise). To my delight, I've begun finding some that potentially qualify for "Best of Jam" (that wacky photo contest I announced last week)....
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Mathieu Trudel: Call for testing: BlueZ A2DP and HSP/HFP profiles
We just landed bluez 4.98-2ubuntu2 in Precise. The key change was to enable the Source and Gateway profiles by default, which will now allow people to use their system as an audio output device. It...
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