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Leo Iannacone: Perugia – DUCC-IT: Ubuntu-it and Debian-it community conference
Just a few words to greet you from Perugia (Italy). We are here discussing translation, testing, packing, bug trianging and collaboration between Ubuntu and Debian with Stefano Zacchiroli (zack –...
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Aaron Toponce: Email Netiquette – Part 1
This is the first in a series of four. It’s been sitting in my archives since 2007, and I’ve been putting it off further and further, refining it here and there. I was going through my blog drafts,...
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Ubuntu Classroom: Beginners Dev Academy: Introduction to Python
In the first of what we hope will be many Beginners Dev Academy classes, on Saturday, September 18th at 17:00 UTC we welcome Pedro Mendes to #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net to deliver an...
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Seif Lotfy: Revisiting old code
While Siegfried is fixing the bugs Randy and I have been brainstorming and designing a new feature for the Activity Journal… We started digging into some old code and I found something I did back in...
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Paul Hummer: Tarmac 0.4 Released
Tarmac 0.4, codenamed "Dog Problems," has been released. This release fixes many bugs that existing in Tarmac 0.3 merely because Tarmac 0.3 was a complete re-write of Tarmac. All the plugins have now...
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Jonathan Jesse: A disappointing cycle for kubuntu-docs and a call for help
I’ve been working on the documentation for Kubuntu for a long time, in fact looking at the Kubuntu Release History entry on Wikipedia made me realize just how long it has been. When the first release...
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Charles Profitt: Michael Gartenberg: Apple’s Baghdad Bob
I recently read an opinion piece in Mac World written by Michael Gartenberg; Open versus Closed. There were a few items that made me laugh about how much mis-truth and FUD Apple is trying to spread....
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Collin Pruitt: ATI and Linux: Play hard, or go home.
As every Ubuntu user running Ubuntu Maverick with a ATI card knows, the version of Xorg – 1.9 – broke compatibility with the Catalyst drivers. I’m very much tempted to point fingers at the Xorg...
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Alex Launi: Smell you later
Dear you, I’m leaving for a while. I’ll be on my bike from now until I come home. I won’t be answering e-mails, I won’t be checking or fixing bugs, and I won’t be staring into a screen. See you all at...
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Aaron Toponce: Email Netiquette – Part 2
This is the second in a series of four. The first can be found at http://pthree.org/2010/09/18/email-netiquette-part-1/. Continuing our discussion from the previous post, I’ll expound on points four...
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Thorsten Wilms: Ubuntu Artwork Crisis
Some people who care are not happy about the state of the Ubuntu Artwork team and mailing list. Saleel’s take on the Ayatana list (good read, as off-topic as it might be, there). Vish’s take on the...
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Maia Kozheva: Dear Canonical, Redux
What’s going on here? Let’s elaborate. A “bug” was filed asking to add a “Sent using Ubuntu” signature by default to Evolution. How did this happen and who decided it was a bug? Judging by the way it...
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Thorsten Wilms: ITIS Linux
I have been asked to design a logo for ITIS Linux (Italian site). ITIS stands for Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale (National Technical/Industrial Institute), a secondary school offering vocational...
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John Baer: Artwork Team – What are we doing here?
Vishnoo posted a thread to the Ubuntu Artwork List asking the question – what are we doing here? This thread was in response to an earlier thread by Saleel Velankar submitted to the Ayatana list...
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Jonathan Carter: Jumping in on the deep side
Jumping In I’ve had too much to blog about and not quite the time to do so! So I’ll just do a bunch of entries that combines a bunch of them. When I was around 4 years old, I was at my cousins’ house...
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Benjamin Mako Hill: Contribute to AcaWiki
In the process of studying for my PhD general examinations this year, I ended up writing summaries about 200 academic books and articles. AcaWiki is a wiki designed to host summaries of academic...
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Martin Owens: Blackberry with OpenSync 0.40
I’ve created a new barry snapshot PPA which should be updated every 2 weeks with the latest barry git revisions and the latest opensync svn. This is to encourage testing and perhaps there is some...
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Canonical Design Team: Lots of interaction design. Zero computers.
…and a can of paint instead. Check out this nice interaction concept [1], designed for the opening of a new Chanel store in NY. Graffiti fades off gradually, to be replaced by a new one It’s good to...
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Launchpad News: Meet Rob Collins
Rob Collins joined the Launchpad team recently. Here’s a bit about him. Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Rob: I’m the Architect for Launchpad – I’m responsible for guiding the...
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Brandon Perry: RVM and Metasploit
If you are a ruby developer and haven't looked at rvm, you really need to. It is a very powerful tool in supporting applications across concurrent ruby installations.The rvm developers have super easy...
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