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Kubuntu: Kubuntu Shirts are Back
Kubuntu T-shirts and Polo Shirts are available again. This time our supplier is HelloTux who are working with the Hungarian Ubuntu LoCo. $3 from each shirt goes to Kubuntu and $1.5 to the Hungarian...
View ArticleAlan Pope: Sprinting in DC
For the last week I’ve been working with 230 other Ubuntu people in Washington, DC. We have sprints like this pretty frequently now and are a great way to collaborate and Get Things Done™ at high...
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Randall Ross: On Changes, Ubuntu, "Magic Spells", and Real Power
In a previous blog post, I hinted at a recent happy development in my life/career that I would like to share with you today...Many of you know me from my involvement in building local communities that...
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Svetlana Belkin: Don’t Feed the Giant Octopus!
This Giant Octopus that I’m talking about is GOOGLE. Google has it’s giant arms everywhere in the tech world and it’s mind is only on one thing: PRIVACY INVASION.Today, I read a post by Oli Warner...
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Daniel Pocock: Positive results from Outreach Program for Women
In 2013, Debian participated in both rounds of the GNOME Outreach Program for Women (OPW). The first round was run in conjunction with GSoC and the second round was a standalone program.The publicity...
View ArticleJorge Castro: Juju in Ubuntu 14.10 highlights
This title is kind of a misnomer, as of course, all this goodness is available to Ubuntu 14.04 users, so it’s more of a “Things that happen to line up with” Ubuntu 14.10.The OpenStack Charms have been...
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Joe Liau: Turning the Page with Cory Doctorow
I’m still buzzing from this morning. No, it’s not because of the “crystal meth”1; nor is it because of the amazing cold brew coffee2 that’s sitting in my fridge. I’m on a mental high from listening to...
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Sujeevan Vijayakumaran: Review of Ubucon 2014 Germany
Last weekend the german Ubucon took place in the town of Katlenburg-Lindau. It was the 8th Ubucon in Germany and it was the third time that I attented an Ubucon as a visitor and as a...
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Joe Liau: Documenting the Death of the Dumb Telephone – Part 3: Unintelligiable
SourceR2-D2 is not dumb. But my phone is. “[It] talks in maths. [It] buzzes like a fridge. [It's] like a detuned radio.”1My phone has a communication problem. It beeps and boops, and sometimes screams...
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Costales: Ubuntu MATE & Folder Color
Now you can use Folder Color in Ubuntu MATE 14.10 too!Caja & Folder ColorJust run these commands into a Terminal:sudo add-apt-repository ppa:costales/folder-colorsudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get...
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Colin King: even more stress in stress-ng
Over the past few weeks in spare moments I've been adding more stress methods to stress-ng ready for Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet. My intention is to produce a rich set of stress methods that can...
View ArticleDavid Tomaschik: Dangers of decorator-based registries in Python
So Flask has a really convenient mechanism for registering handlers, actions to be run before/after requests, etc. Using decorators, Flask registers these functions to be called, as in:1 2 3 4 5 6...
View ArticleColin Watson: Moving on, but not too far
The Ubuntu Code of Conduct says:Step down considerately: When somebody leaves or disengages from the project, we ask that they do so in a way that minimises disruption to the project. They should tell...
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Randall Ross: Why Smart Phones Aren't - Reason #4
I used to believe that computer mediated communication made the world a better place...Have you ever noticed a couple sitting together not being "together"? Or perhaps a group of friends eating in a...
View ArticleValorie Zimmerman: Testing A11y in Plasma 5
I made the jump on all available computers, and am now running Plasma5 on the foundation of Kubuntu 14.10 everywhere. Once the upgrade work was done, I filed a few bugs, and then wanted to test...
View ArticleValorie Zimmerman: Start your Season of KDE engines!
Season of KDE (#SoK2014) was delayed a bit, but we're in business now:http://heenamahour.blogspot.in/2014/10/season-of-kde-2014.htmlPlease stop by the ideas page if you need an idea. Otherwise, contact...
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Nicholas Skaggs: Sprinting in DC: Friday
This week, my team and I are sprinting with many of the core app developers and other folks inside of Ubuntu Engineering. Each day I'm attempting to give you a glimpse of what's happening.Friday brings...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 389
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #389 for the week October 20 – 26, 2014, and the full version is available here.In this issue we cover:Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) releasedV is...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: Kernel Team Meeting Minutes – October 28, 2014
Meeting MinutesIRC Log of the meeting.Meeting minutes.Agenda20141028 Meeting AgendaRelease Metrics and Incoming Bugs Release metrics and incoming bug data can be reviewed at the following...
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Svetlana Belkin: Personal Goals for Ubuntu 15.04
I thought I written post for 14.10 but I didn’t…I think real life was too stressful on me at that time, but I wrote one for 14.04.Between the 14.04 cycle and the 14.10 cycle, I completed one of the six...
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