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Martin Owens: 5Pi-Con – Ubuntu MA+CT

This weekend we were attending PiCon once again, a wonderfully smaller SciFi and geeky event in the middle of CT near the MA border. I’d like to thank Jonathan Prigot and Penelopy (Pendulum) for...

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Michael Lustfield: Nginx Book Review

Most anyone reading this already knows me. My name is Michael Lustfield. I'm running the servers of a starting web development company called Kalliki Software. We've been in business for a little...

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Jorge Castro: Who are your mentors?

Allison Randall has blogged about her new role in Ubuntu; working at Canonical as the Technical Architect for Ubuntu. One thing which I think is awesome is how she mentions people who encouraged her:...

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Laura Czajkowski: LoCo Directory – Useful if kept up to date

We now have this fantastic all in one place information on teams, global and local events.  It makes finding information for everyone a lot easier.  It’s come on a long way and looks rather pretty...

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Nizar Kerkeni: Tunisian LoCo meeting

After few months of inactivity (end of school year and exams, summer vacation, etc. …) our community is slowly resuming it’s activities with a meeting to be held in our IRC channel #ubuntu-tn Friday...

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Harald Sitter: KCModule Flower Power!

KCModules are special widgets that are used throughout the KDE platform to provide configuration functionallity. For example every module in System Settings is actually a KCM. You can also access all...

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Seif Lotfy: Help with Mono for Zeitgeist

At Zeitgeist we are finishing up some nice Tomboy and Banshee Addins. Currently we are facing an issue with Mono DBus and we reached a new level of desperateness. You need to have Zeitgeist running...

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Pablo Rubianes: Global Jam for all the Spanish speakers!!!

I am happy to report that on next Sunday, 29 August at 15:45, the Spanish Speaking Community is going to have an International Global Jam via IRC, at #ubuntu-charlas and #ubuntu-charlas-chat.This...

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Seif Lotfy: Hot/Not (IconViews)

Michal Hruby is working on Sezen and one thing I noticed is that the IconView compared to Nautilus are JUST PLAIN UGLY… Look Here: You can see the highlighted items look different in terms of...

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Jono Bacon: Help Colin Get His Kids Back

I don’t tend to blog about appeals, but I came across this terribly sad story and I really want to encourage you all too also pledge and support him. Here is what happened, written by a friend of...

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Diego Turcios: Interviewing Gunnar Wolf

Gunnar Wolf the blue guy Some days ago the debconf 2010 finish. And well last year I met Gunnar Wolf a Debian Developer so I decide it to make him an interview. So here it goes. 1.Tell as much as...

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Elizabeth Krumbach: Ubuntu California at Picn*x 19

On Saturday I got up bright and early to catch a 9AM ride with Grant Bowman to the annual Linux Picnic (Picn*x19) as they celebrated the 19th anniversary of the Linux kernel. We arrived on site to...

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Mohamad Faizul Zulkifli: Windows 7 Theme For Ubuntu Linux

Transform your Ubuntu to Windows 7 familiar look now. The right way to make you child or wife feel happy when using your Ubuntu desktop/laptop. Sounds funny, take a look here.read the installation...

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Laura Czajkowski: Limerick Hackerspace

Just found this out today, there is a meeting tonight to discuss the plans to set up a Limerick Hackerspace.  If you can make it, come along to the Absolute Hotel at 7:30pm or you can join up to the...

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Stephan Hermann: The real "eiPOTT"

Just found that on heise.de,The company "Koziol" named this "Egg Breaker" "eiPOTT" (pronounced: iPOD).The court from the City of Hamburg followed Apple and forbid this naming. Well, the fun part,...

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The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #207

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #207 for the week August 15th - August 21st, 2010 and is available here. In this issue we cover: N-imal? Join the fun at the Ubuntu Global Jam...

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Ingeniero Forigua: Ubuntu Global Jam 27 - 29 de Agosto

Ubuntu Global Jam 27 - 29 de Agosto El Ubuntu Global Jam es un evento tradicional de la comunidad ubuntera, esta edición la comunidad hispanada planea hacerlo masivamente con una serie de charlas +...

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You In Ubuntu: Keeping the Community Connected - Gwibber! Interview with Ken...

In this Interview Amber Graner talks to Ken Vandine, Ubuntu Desktop Integration Engineer, about Gwibber and her awkward first conversation with him about Gwibber.

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Jono Bacon: Revisiting Ethos

When I first heard about Free Software in 1998 I was mesmerized by it’s potential. Sure, back then the software was complex and some would argue ugly, but underneath the rough edges was a thing of...

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Martin Owens: Ethos of FOSS

The affable Jono Bacon has Asked us to note why we got involved in Free Software. I think for me Free Software embodies the common sense of working for each other in a way where we are honestly aware...

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