You In Ubuntu: Interview: John Lenton, Senior Engineering Manager for Ubuntu One
In this continuing Ubuntu One interview series, Amber Graner talks to John Lenton, Senior Engineering Manager for Ubuntu One. Lenton give a little about his history with FOSS and how he found his was...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Eric Ward Joining the Community Team at Canonical
On Monday next week I will be welcoming the sixth horseman to the Community Team at Canonical; he will be joining Daniel Holbach, Jorge Castro, David “the man with the plan” Planella, Ahmed Kamal, and...
View ArticleUbuntu Cloud Portal: Juju at PuppetConf
A few members of the Ubuntu server engineering team recently visited puppetconf to present juju as well as attend the conference. Here is an overview of puppetconf sessions from the point of view of...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: Kernel Team Meeting Minutes
Meeting Minutes IRC Log of the meeting. Meeting minutes. Agenda 20110927 Meeting Agenda ARM Status Various arm kernel flavours: nothing new this week. Oneiric/ti-omap4: lp844099 (“System fails to...
View ArticleDavid Tomaschik: Review: Ghost in the Wires
Any fan of hacking culture should already be familiar with the name Kevin Mitnick and with the basic story of his exploits, the manhunt to find him, and his arrest and prosecution. Ghost in the Wires:...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Ubuntu 11.04 Covered By CNN-IBN in India
Ubuntu 11.04 got a very positive review CNN in India this weekend. Refered to as: One of the world wide web’s best kept secrets. Check out the video below and skip to 15.05: Can’t see it? See the video...
View ArticleLaura Czajkowski: Frustrations of job hunting
I’m sure I can speak for many people when I say job hunting can be stressful, frustrating and down right nightmare at times. During the past 4 months I’ve had a lot of experience of recruiters,...
View ArticleJorge Castro: RIP Cliff Burton (25 Years ago today)
RIP Cliff Burton (25 Years ago today)
View ArticleLaunchpad News: Less mail about translation imports
Continuing on from our earlier work of sending less but better mail and making it faster to import i18n translation templates: Launchpad will no longer send mail when it successfully imports a...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Video On Dealing With Burnout
Some of you will be familiar with the presentation I have done in the past on burnout, what it is, how to tell the symptoms, the 12 stages of burnout, and how to handle it in our communities. When I...
View ArticleCanonical Design Team: We’ve got mail!
Every day just about everyone at Canonical gets email by the bucket load. Even someone like me who’s only peripherally involved in desktop development and files his own bugs through the release cycle...
View ArticleHajime MIZUNO: Original USB flash drive for Ubunchu?
What is Ubunchu? "Ubunchu!" is a Japanese manga series featuring Ubuntu Linux.Three school students in a system-admin club are getting into Ubuntu!(see http://seotch.wordpress.com/ubunchu/)These manga...
View ArticleMartin Owens: Ubuntu Broke so Now I Use Windows
This season has not been a happy one for advocates, I’m seeing a marked increase in Ubuntu rejections from non-technical users. Problems range from random crashes, freezing, graphics problems, too slow...
View ArticleDavid Tomaschik: I did it for the data...
Prior to about 2005, if you had something to say online, you built your own website and said it there. And so the web was like a chain of small islands, each led by their own leader (the owner of the...
View ArticleFlavia Weisghizzi: How Ive learnt Canonical isnt the wrong :)
An open letter to Mark Shuttleworth. Hi Mark! This is the very first time I’m writing to you, and I would like to share with you some of my thoughts about Ubuntu and Canonical’s future. As spokeswoman...
View ArticleUbuntu Women: Ubuntu Women Month of Making: Nathalina Backman
I made these cupcakes as an inside joke for a friend who kept talking about Ubuntu. They are caramel flavoured to give that Ubuntu brown feel. Thanks to Nathalina for being our second participant in...
View ArticleThe Fridge: Interview with Stuart Langridge
In this interview with Strategic Architect for Ubuntu One, Stuart Langridge, I kick off the first of a series of articles about Ubuntu One. Today, we’ll learn a little more about Langridge and his...
View ArticleHajime MIZUNO: Open Source ”Small” Conference 2011 Aizu
I and an another Japanese LoCo team member Mitsuya Shibata(lp: cosmos-door) attended Open Source "Small" Conference 2011 Aizu, Japan.Aizu is in Fukushima Pref. Fukushima suffered the damage of the...
View ArticleUbuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S04E16 – Fates Warning
Mark Johnson, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore are joined by new guest presenter Anton Piatek in Studio A for episode 16 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team! In this week’s show:- We chat...
View ArticleUbuntu Women: Prizes for Month of Making! And just 9 days left…
On September 7th announced the Ubuntu Women Month of Making. We’re now down to just 9 days to get your submissions in before we hit the October 7th Ada Lovelace Day deadline! Thanks to Valorie...
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