Richard Johnson: Blizzard of 2011
As I sit here writing this right now, we here in Chicago are hunkered down with the expectation of receiving more than 24 inches (60cm), of snow. Hoping I can get this posted before the power totally...
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The Fridge: Interview with Silvia Bindelli
Elizabeth Krumbach: Please tell us a little about yourself.Silvia Bindelli: I’m Silvia Bindelli, I’m 27 years old. I was born and spent my childhood in Verona (the city of Romeo and Juliet!), Italy,...
View ArticleJoe Barker: Moving On
Some of you may recall the Ubuntu Community Interview series that I took on back in 2009. I’m sad to say that I have been pretty poor at keeping these regular, through one reason and another, and I’m...
View ArticleSilver Fox: Ubuntu Community Interviews
You may have heard of these…Since September 2007, K.Mandla, conducted interviews with forum members on his blog, Motho ke motho ka botho, giving all of us an opportunity to get to know some of the...
View ArticleLaura Czajkowski: Being a locoteam
I’ve been pondering this post for some time. Trying to work it out in my head before I put pen to paper! I regularly get asked this what does a loco team do? What should they do? Is it ok if they do a...
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Lionel Dricot: Building your web identity
While strolling on that inter-network thingy, you quickly realize that there's one mandatory identity certificate required: your email address. It is not possible anymore to be active on the web...
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David Planella: Starting Translations Training Sessions
As previously discussed, I’m happy to announce the first in the series of biweekly Translations Training Sessions, starting tomorrow. So here’s the rundown: we’ll be having a 1 hour IRC session,...
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Jono Bacon: Weekly Q+A Sessions
One thing we are always trying to improve and optimize is transparency in the Ubuntu project. One piece of work to this end is ensuring that the managers in the Ubuntu Engineering Team are available to...
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Juanje Ojeda: Colaborar en español con la accesibilidad en el escritorio
Sorry to the non-spanish speakers this is an anounce for the people who feel more confortable speaking Spanish than English and all the people who may know people that feel like that. Muy buenas Para...
View ArticleYou In Ubuntu: Ubuntu Weekly Q&A Sessions Announced
Ubuntu offers weekly question and answer sessions with various leaders in the community.
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Hollman Enciso: Ayudemos a Hollman para que asista a las JRRL v2
Ante todo me presento, soy Hollman Enciso, 25 años, ingeniero de sistemas, miembro activo de la comunidad BogotaMesh, una comunidad que trabaja en la construcción de una red inalambrica comunitaria y...
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Edubuntu: Edubuntu 11.04 Alpha 2 Released
New Development Release Edubuntu 11.04 (codenamed: Natty Narwhal) is the next version of Edubuntu due for release in April 2011. Development on the system is in full swing and today marks the second...
View ArticleMirco Müller: Don’t screw with blender or the GPL
Some people just don’t know when they crossed a line better left untouched. The dubious companies 3DMagix/3DMagixPro/IllusionMage try to rebrand and resell blender without giving credit or links to the...
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Jonathan Carter: Bugs in Ubuntu Pre-releases
Every time there’s an Ubuntu release or pre-release is tested, it is logged on the Ubuntu QA team ISO tracker. Every time it draws some pictures that changes as images are rebuilt and as bugs are added...
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Eric Hammond: Moving an EC2 Instance to a Larger Size
When you discover that the entry level t1.micro instance size is simply not cutting it for your growing application needs, you may want to try upgrading it to a larger instance type, perhaps an...
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: What's wrong with America ( part I )
As an American, I feel that it’s my right — nay duty — to point out absurdity in everyday life. In this first part of a many part series, I’ll take a look at our stupid language of de facto choice,...
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Jono Bacon: Community Leadership Summit 2011 Announced!
I am delighted to announce the Community Leadership Summit 2011, now in it’s third year! This year it takes place on the 23rd and 24th July 2011, the weekend before OSCON at the Oregon Convention...
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Scott Moser: New Ubuntu 10.04 LTS images with pv-grub support
Yesterday I announced the availability of updated Ubuntu images on EC2 for 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx).This post is mainly to mirror that one to a possibly wider audience, but also to go into more detail on...
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Scott Moser: Getting ephemeral devices on EBS images
When you launch an instance in EC2, be it EBS root or instance-store, you are "entitled" to some amount of ephemeral storage. Ephemeral storage is basically just extra local disk that lives in the host...
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