Stuart Langridge: Conference wars
Just had an odd little idea. Imagine you go off to a conference -- one of the ones where you wander around and look at stuff and talk to people in corridors and so on, not one of the ones where you sit...
View ArticleUbuntu Women: Career Days: Media Liaison Wrap-up
On Wednesday, April 18 at 16:00 UTC Emma Marshall (System76Chick) presented on being a Media Liaison. Career Path Has been a journalist since she was 14, working for school and local newspapers...
View ArticleBenjamin Kerensa: Free Open Source Software in Oregon Government
In Oregon we are by no means strangers to Technology in fact many Tech companies called Oregon home to their Data Centers and offices where developers are creating the next innovative product. Despite...
View ArticleDylan McCall: Rescuing your data from Formstack’s “excess form submission” email
I seem to be accumulating all sorts of little scripts to solve dumb little problems sensible people don’t encounter (and therefore don’t have scripts for). Normally I keep these to myself because...
View ArticleMichael Hall: Hello Unity, episode 3 & 4
The past couple of weeks have been busy for just about everybody at Canonical as we prepare for the release of Ubuntu 12.04, which is shaping it to be a remarkable release indeed. But I was able to...
View ArticleDuncan McGreggor: New Life: The OpenStack DevOps Community
Last week's OpenStack Design Summit and Conference were pretty fantastic events. Lots of great technical discussions, some good initial planning on large tasks, incredible numbers of conversations --...
View ArticleRandall Ross: Quincy the Quetzal Says:
-- Want to play along? GIMP is your friend. @ Ben: We're in Vancouver BC.
View ArticleThe Fridge: Membership Boards: Restaffing and Reorganization
On May 5th we will have a large number of Regional Membership Board members with terms expiring. The Community Council decided to take this opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness of these regional...
View ArticleXubuntu: Xubuntu Artwork Update: Unity Support
While there are many people who project a competition between Ubuntu and its derivatives, I’d like to set a (small) sign that this is definitely not the case. With respect to our default theme,...
View ArticleDavid Planella: Get the Ubuntu Online Tour on your LoCo site
I’m thrilled to announce the availability of the Ubuntu 12.04 Online Tour for local community teams to localize and use on their websites. The tour has been the result of the stunning work done by Ant...
View ArticleJorge Castro: Ubuntu OpenWeek, 2-4 May on Freenode
2-4 May in #ubuntu-classroom It’s that time of the year folks. Tomorrow you get a shiny new Operating System, and next week we’ll have an IRC workshop where you can find cool new things to do with it....
View ArticleBenjamin Kerensa: Dude, Take the tour!
Apparently Quincy the Quetzal thinks you should take the Ubuntu 12.04 Online Tour that Ubuntu Oregon just launched:http://ubuntu-oregon.org/tour
View ArticleJason Gerard DeRose: Novacut, System76, and the Colorado LoCo release party
If you happen to be in the Denver metro area, you should totally stop by the Colorado LoCo Ubuntu Release Party! It's this Sunday (April 29th) from 6-9pm at the Rock Bottom Brewery in Westminster. Tara...
View ArticleKubuntu: Kubuntu 12.04 LTS
The Kubuntu community is proud to announce the release of 12.04 LTS, the Precise Pangolin: the new Long Term Support version of our friendly operating system. See the Kubuntu 12.04 LTS Release Notes...
View ArticleUbuntu Cloud Portal: Announcing the UDS Juju Charm Contest for UDS attendees
It’s time for another Juju Charm Contest, where you can submit your charms and win fabulous prizes! This contest is for Ubuntu Developer Summit Attendees; and our prizes are three sexy Dell XPS 13...
View ArticleStephen Michael Kellat: Happy Precise Release Day!
Another release is done and now the community progresses ever onward. Who knows what tomorrow may bring?
View ArticleLuis de Bethencourt: Using emacs with etags
I'm currently dealing with a very obfuscated and over-engineered codebase, with layers upon layers upon layers. There is always a silver linning though and I finally got around to learning how to use...
View Articles.fox: An Interview with Coffeecat
Coffeecat is someone I know from the Ubuntu Forums, where he sits with me on the Forum Council. He has kindly taken some time out to answer the dreaded 9 simple questions… 1. Tell as much as you’re...
View ArticleBenjamin Kerensa: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Release Today
For many in the Ubuntu Community today marks many months of hard work on Ubuntu 12.04 which is our LTS (Long Term Support) Release. So lets have a look at some of the changes you can expect to see in...
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