Kubuntu Wire: Kubuntu Sponsors’ Presentation
Yesterday the stream of talks at KDE’s conference Akademy finished with the Akademy Awards and Sponsors’ Presentations. Thanks to kind sponsorship by Blue Systems we got to give the first presentation....
View ArticleThomas Ward: nginx changes in Debian causing default-config fastcgi users issues
Due to changes in NGINX, there are now changes done to the default configurations which will break fastcgi sites.NGINX in Debian, and as such, the PPAs, were previously shipping different configuration...
View ArticleJono Bacon: One Simple Request
I do a podcast called Bad Voltage with a bunch of my pals. In it we cover Open Source and technology, we do interviews, reviews, and more. It is a lot of fun.We started a contest recently in which the...
View ArticleThe Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 382
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #382 for the week September 1 – 7, 2014, and the full version is available here.In this issue we cover:Welcome New Members and DevelopersUbuntu...
View ArticleValorie Zimmerman: Fixing mistakes and growing stronger
In Creativity, Inc., Catmull explores an example of where their structure had created some problems, and how they identified and fixed that, improving their over-all culture. I know this is a wall of...
View ArticleLeo Iannacone: Ubuntu Themes for GNOME 3.12
Ubuntu Themes with support for GNOME >= 3.12Install:sudo add-apt-repository ppa:l3on/ubuntu-themes-gnome-shell sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install light-themesPreview:For more info, check out...
View ArticleDustin Kirkland: Dream a little dream (in a dream within another dream) with me!
What would you say if I told you, that you could continuously upload your own Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) web apps into an open source Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) framework, running on top of an...
View ArticleJorge Castro: Deploying ElasticSearch clusters with Juju and Ansible
ElasticSearch is one of those tools that’s just handy to have. When combined with Logstash and Kibana, you can use the “ELK” stack for all sorts of things.One thing we’d like to see is to bring these...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: Kernel Team Meeting Minutes – September 09, 2014
Meeting MinutesIRC Log of the meeting.Meeting minutes.Agenda20140909 Meeting AgendaRelease Metrics and Incoming Bugs Release metrics and incoming bug data can be reviewed at the following...
View ArticleUbuntu Server blog: Server team meeting minutes: 2014-09-09
Meeting ActionsnoneU DevelopmentFinal beta freeze is 9/25The one bug that is >= high in importance and not fixed is bug 1350810 in byobu, reminder sent to kirklandEveryone reminded to review...
View ArticleDaniel Pocock: xTupleCon WebRTC talk schedule change, new free event
As mentioned in my earlier blog, I'm visiting several events in the US and Canada in October and November. The first of these, the talk about WebRTC in CRM at xTupleCon, has moved from the previously...
View ArticleMichael Hall: YAGNI, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the BSD
Last week I published a new app to the Ubuntu Store, which isn’t anything particularly new, but this time I didn’t use my normal license, instead I went permissive. This is something I’ve been wavering...
View ArticleLubuntu Blog: [Results] Community wallpaper contest
The results are in!I'd like to start with addressing some of the issues with running this type of contest. We try to communicate the rules for this contest as clearly as possible, for example, you...
View ArticleStephen Kelly: I Did it My Way
I flew to Bilbao on the 11th of August and took a train to Burgos. From there I walked 500km over 21 days to arrive in Santiago. Although technically a Catholic pilgrimage, I approached it secularly as...
View ArticleStephen Kelly: Grantlee based on Qt 5
While I’ve been off the grid I received an unusually high concentration of requests for a Qt5-based Grantlee. I’m working on getting that done for September.
View ArticleRaphaël Hertzog: Freexian’s first report about Debian Long Term Support
When we setup Freexian’s offer to bring together funding from multiple companies in order to sponsor the work of multiple developers on Debian LTS, one of the rules that I imposed is that all paid...
View ArticleDidier Roche: How to help on Ubuntu Developer Tools Center
Last week, we announced our "Ubuntu Loves Developers" effort! We got some great feedback and coverage. Multiple questions arose around how to help and be part of this effort. Here is the post to answer...
View ArticleLucas Nussbaum: Will the packages you rely on be part of Debian Jessie?
The start of the jessie freeze is quickly approaching, so now is a good time to ensure that packages you rely on will the part of the upcoming release. Thanks to automated removals, the number of...
View ArticleDustin Kirkland: Deploy OpenStack IceHouse like a Boss!
This little snippet of ~200 lines of YAML is the exact OpenStack that I'm deploying tonight, at the OpenStack Austin Meetup.Anyone with a working Juju and MAAS setup, and 7 registered servers should be...
View ArticleSvetlana Belkin: Open Science: Improving Collaboration Between Researchers
The Open Source movement has evolved into other areas of computering. Open Data, Open Hardware, and ,the topic that I want to talk about, Open Science, are three examples of this. Since I’m a...
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