Laura Czajkowski: August 17th LoCo Council Meeting
Thanks to all those who came and took part in the meeting. It really is great to see teams come to these meetings and bringing others with you to cheer you on makes it very interesting. We are at...
View ArticleThe Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #206
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #206 for the week August 8th - August 14th, 2010 and is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu Global Jam: We Need Your Events! Feature...
View ArticleSeif Lotfy: OMG! Trophy Case (Mockup)
While I managed to get a set of developers working on the OMG! backend, I took the initiative to mock-up the Trophy Case (OMG! Awards Viewer). It is my very first self made mock-up so please have...
View ArticleDylan McCall: Harvest + GSoC week 12
Well, I managed my last-minute merge request for Summer of Code 2010, and with that done it is time for my last GSoC 2010 blog post!I am really glad I did this. It's taught me a lot about myself...
View ArticleJorge Castro: Ubuntu-related videos from Debconf 2010
A few of us were in NYC to participate in Debconf 10. This was my third Debconf but the first time I’ve ever spoken at the event, thanks to Zack for convincing me to try it! Unfortunately I had been...
View ArticleChuck Frain: Software Freedom Day In The Free State!
Well it is that time of year again! Software Freedom Day is September 18th! This year the Ubuntu Maryland Local Community Team will again be holding a day of talks and discussions about Free and Open...
View ArticleThe Fridge: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS released
The secret of happiness … is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm, always lucid, always willing "to be joined to the universe without being more conscious of it than an idiot," to let...
View ArticleRichard Johnson: Kubuntu and Kubuntu Netbook 10.04.1 Released
Along with the latest point release of Ubuntu, the Kubuntu developers have been busy whipping up the 10.04 release in to a shape good enough to present you all with the latest point release. This...
View ArticleKen VanDine: Introducing libgwibber, lets make the Desktop social!
For a while now I have wanted to make it easier for desktop applications to integrate more with social networks, enabling users to easily interact with their friends in many different contexts. Could...
View ArticleAra Pulido: Love an upstream project? Want it well tested?
A couple of weeks ago we launched the Desktop Testing Program. You can read more about it in the original announcement but, basically, we have some infrastructure to track test results for desktop...
View ArticleMartin Meredith: Mark Shuttleworth is driving me insane
With his announcement of the N-imal for Ubuntu 11.04 – I’m being driven slightly insane, as I now now have this song stuck in my head (and probably will do for weeks to come!)
View ArticleMackenzie Morgan: Kubuntu & Kubuntu Netbook 10.04.1 now available
The first point-release for Kubuntu and Kubuntu Netbook 10.04 is now available. If you've been putting off installing because of the number of updates you'll have to download, the good news is all...
View ArticleNizar Kerkeni: Natty Narwhal
Le nom de code de la future Ubuntu 11.04 est annoncé par Mark Shuttleworth dans son blog et ça sera le Natty Narwhal. Une traduction possible est le Narval chic. D’après Mark Being a natty narwhal, of...
View ArticleJonathan Riddell: Kubuntu Translations QA Day
This Friday (20th August) me and Ubuntu translations man David Planella want to spend the day making sure translations in Kubuntu are in tip top shape. Do join us on IRC in #kubuntu-devel if you want...
View ArticleEmma Jane Hogbin: Positively Excited
Last night I won the Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound Green Party of Canada nomination meeting. That means when the next federal election rolls 'round, my name will be on the ballot. This is the speech that I...
View ArticleLaura Czajkowski: OSSBarcamp September event
What started off as a one time event has surely grown. This is my 4th OSSBarcamp I’ve run in two years. I decided to run this event as quite frankly there was diddly squat in open source events...
View ArticleUbuntu Server blog: Server Team 20100817 meeting minutes
Here are the minutes of the meeting. They can also be found online with the irc logs here. Meeting Actions SpamapS to submit rubygems change proposal as Important bug in Debian and CC ubuntu-devel zul...
View ArticleJorge Castro: Contributor Spotlight: Bilal Akhtar
Bilal is a contributor to 100 Papercuts, and has recently been approved to universe-contributors. Congrats to Bilal! As it turns out, he’s only 14 years old and already has fixed papercuts! This makes...
View ArticleAndré Gondim: FISL in Brazil, Ubuntu was there
Last July here in Brazil we had a major Free Software event, called FISL (International Software Freedom Forum). There we made the 5th ENUB (Brazlian Ubuntu Meeting), where we talked about community...
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