Steve Conklin: Beware Imposed Agility
A few weeks ago at a wedding reception I was making small talk, and was introduced as someone who “works for Canonical”. One of the people in the circle immediately said “OH!, you do Agile development!...
View ArticleRalph Janke: LibreOffice: Document Foundation Steering Committee Public Phone...
The Document Foundation's steering committee will hold a public phone conference on November 28, 2010, 1500 UTC. Current agenda items: Structure of the native language websites. Status of the...
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Mario Limonciello: Asterisk 1.8 and native Google Voice support
Last week the Asterisk development team announced Asterisk 1.8's release with native support for Google Talk / Gmail calling. By doing so, a lot of the hackery that was previously done with bridging...
View ArticleRalph Janke: Is Open Source under Siege? Let's Hope Not!
While Open Source is stepping up in leading innovation of software technology, things could very well start to get even harder than they are in the near future to gain further market share for true...
View ArticleMartin Owens: Is open siege under sourced? Let’s not hope!
An excellent post by txwikinger on his blog called Is open source under siege? Let’s hope not! paints a picture of all the recent movements in the business world which seem to undermine free and open...
View ArticleYou In Ubuntu: Building the Ubuntu Cloud Community
Want to know more about Ubuntu Cloud and how you can use and contribute? Take a look at the what Ahmed Kamal is doing to show you.
View ArticleJo Shields: Always twirling, twirling, twirling towards Freedom
I’ve never quit a job before. Well, not a real job. Quitting PC World was more than easy, it was practically required for my soul not to leave my body. Quitting Waitrose was, well, it was a freaking...
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Ddorda: RTL in Xchat
Hey there, For a long time I was annoyed by the Right-To-Left problems that occurred quite often in the IRC which made text that has Hebrew and English mixed impossible to read. Few months ago I...
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Jono Bacon: Tips For ustream.tv Videocasters
Recently I have been asking some members my team at Canonical (namely, Daniel Holbach and David Planella) to start doing some live videocasts. As some of you will know, I have been doing videocasts...
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Charles Profitt: Free and Open in Education: ISTE and NETP 2010
Today I presented to a room of K-12 education professionals at NYSCATE on how FOSS, FOSS projects and Open Content can help them achieve the goals set forth in NETP 2010 and ISTE 21st Century Skills....
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The Fridge: Interview with Zach Kriesse
This week we have zkriesse in the interview series. In my opinion, zkriesse is one of the Ubuntu community members who may not be well known, but certainly keeps things going as smoothly as possible....
View ArticleLaunchpad News: Launchpad edge site deprecated
I previously posted about our continuous deployment efforts in Launchpad. Since then the project has come a long way. We can deploy to nearly all our services without downtime. The remaining services...
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Stéphane Graber: Update on desktop application sandboxing
So on Saturday I blogged about a piece of code I wrote to easily create containers on a recent Linux desktop. I have now spent a few more hours improving the code a bit with two main new features:...
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Jono Bacon: Meetings, Videocasts, Oh My!
Tomorrow (or today if you are already up and about)…Wed 24th Nov 2010…is a pretty stonking day for events, and I just wanted to highlight them here so you can be sure to get along: Ubuntu Cloud Meeting...
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Brandon Perry: New appliances for network auto-assessment script available
I have uploaded the beta od-autoassess 10.10 virtual appliances (VirtualBox) and have made them available through torrents (preferred) as well. I am getting close to capping my monthly bandwidth (450gb...
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Daniel Holbach: dholbach tv
Jono spilled the beans already. I’ll be taking a leaf out of his book and start a ustream.tv show called “Ubuntu Development with Daniel Holbach”. The first show will be tomorrow, 25th November 16:00...
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Ahmed Kamal: Ubuntu Cloud Q+A weekly meeting
The Ubuntu cloud community is coming together today [ 3pm UTC/GMT / 7am Pacific / 10am Eastern ] for its first weekly Q+A meeting. If you use Ubuntu as a guest OS on a public cloud, or if you have...
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Rick Spencer: Ubuntu is *not* moving to a rolling release
So, I just got asked to provide a statement about whether Ubuntu is moving to a rolling release. The statement I provided was:"Ubuntu is not changing to a rolling release. We are confident that our...
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Stephan Hermann: Firefox and Chrome: Different JavaScript behaviour
Dear JavaScript Devs,I'm debugging right now a script of mine, which behaves totally different on Firefox and Chrome.I wonder which software is more correct.Given this (you can just do it in the...
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TurnKey Linux: Announcing the winners of the first TurnKey development contest
Ladies and gentlemen, by now you are all shuddering in anticipation, dying to find out who won the very first TurnKey appliance development contest... in the history of the universe! The stakes...
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