Launchpad News: Testing descriptions for bug status and importance
Launchpad beta testers will now see the descriptions of bug status and importance when making updates to the bug page. Launchpad pickers can now show the descriptions of the options you can choose....
View ArticleStephen Michael Kellat: Miscellany: Madly Off In All Directions
In light of a security breach at Twitter I am looking to terminate my presence there and stick with Identica instead. I need to sleep on this, though. No, I don't intend to return to Google Plus. I've...
View ArticleNorman Garcia: Debian tour in Nicaragua
In April, the Nicaraguan Debian community started the Debian Tour, a series of talks in different universities around Nicaragua in order to promote Debian GNU/Linux and invite people to join our...
View ArticleLeandro Gómez: Are you going to DebConf12?
There’s only a few days left before the sponsored registration for DebConf12 closes. If you haven’t registered yet, please do it before May 15th and consider submitting a talk. We’re looking forward to...
View ArticleCharles Profitt: UDS Day Two
Day two of the Ubuntu Developer Summit started out strong with a community round table that set the agenda and format of the Leadership Summit for Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. Tues: Intros and...
View ArticleElizabeth Krumbach: UDS-Q in Oakland Day 2
Day 2 of UDS! Mark’s keynote from yesterday is now up on youtube, you can view it here. - Community Roundtable - The session started off with some discussion around the use of Trello.com boards....
View ArticleCharles Profitt: UDS Day Three: Preview
Today is the day many people were excited about as UDS approached. EA will be presenting at the second plenary session today. It will be interesting to hear how much deeper their commitment to...
View ArticleRandall Ross: UDS Plenary, with Bdale
The legendary Bdale Garbee presented at the Ubuntu Developer Summit (Quantal Quetzal edition) in Oakland California. Our mascot Quincy (the most famous Quetzal) invites you to click the video below...
View ArticleUbuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S05E06 – What I Saw in California
Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are Alan-less for the sixth episode of Season Five of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team! Note: We’re no longer providing ‘low-fi’ Ogg and MP3...
View ArticleAlan Pope: Why not contribute to Ubuntu Manual
I’m in a session at the Ubuntu Developer Summit about the Ubuntu Manual http://ubuntu-manual.org/ which you may remember was started some time ago with the goal of producing a high quality pdf (and...
View ArticleTony Whitmore: Herring and Lee and Lee and Herring
Pin It A few weeks ago I went to see this year’s show from Richard Herring, ”What is love, anyway?” at The Lights in Andover. Although Richard didn’t think the show went down very well, I enjoyed it....
View ArticleMatthew Revell: Asus Zenbook UX31 running Ubuntu: first impressions
Last week, I finally gave in and bought a new laptop. I wanted something small and lightweight, yet reasonably powerful. I discounted the MacBook Air on a couple of counts: the increased cost and the...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Ubuntu Community Accomplishments Collection 0.1.1 Released
I just released a new update for the Ubuntu Community Accomplishments collection. This new release (0.1.1) includes the following new community accomplishments: Accomplishments Contributor Attend LoCo...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: [Quantal] linux kernel 3.4.0-2.4 uploaded (ABI Bump)
We have uploaded a new Quantal linux kernel. Please note the ABI Bump. The most notable changes are as follows: * Rebase to v3.4-rc7 * Remove fsam7400 Ubuntu driver (supported upstream) * Remove...
View ArticleLubuntu Blog: Liberté Linux 2012.1
Liberté Linux is a secure, reliable, lightweight and easy to use Gentoo-based LiveUSB/SD/CD Linux distribution with the primary purpose of enabling anyone to communicate safely and covertly in hostile...
View ArticleThe Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 265
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #265 for the week May 7 – 13, 2012, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu Developer Summit for Quantal EA Games...
View ArticleJames Westby: Monitoring and Testability
At UDS last week there was another "Testing in Ubuntu" session. During the event I gave a brief presentation on monitoring and testability. The thesis was that there are a lot of parallels between...
View ArticleJonathan Carter: The “Software Packages” Meta-Track at UDS
Meta Track? I’m glad you asked! At the Ubuntu Developer Summit, sessions are arranged by track. There are some topics that don’t have official tracks, but you end up seeing the same people in the same...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Accomplishing An Awesome App Developer Platform
At the Ubuntu Developer Summit last week I delivered a plenary on the Tuesday called Accomplishing An Awesome App Developer Platform that tells the story of how the Ubuntu app developer platform...
View ArticleJosé Antonio Rey: Just a few words about UDS.
The Ubuntu Developer Summit. One week, full of experiences, sessions, plenaries, social events, etc. One week where you find out what is the essence of this community. Last week I’ve had my first UDS....
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