Stuart Langridge: Enabling Webmentions
Well, everyone’s doing Webmentions these days. So, there’s a bandwagon here to jump on.All this is really my fault. It is a good idea that, when I write a post which links elsewhere, that the elsewhere...
View ArticleWalter Lapchynski: cross referencing Mailman memberships with group memberships
Around the time of OSCON this year, it came to my attention (thanks belkinsa!) that Ubuntu Oregon was in need of leadership. They were one of many Local Communities (or to adapt the more common...
View ArticleWalter Lapchynski: where Mailman and Launchpad memberships meet
Around the time of OSCON this year, it came to my attention (thanks belkinsa!) that Ubuntu Oregon was in need of leadership. They were one of many Local Communities (or to adapt the more common...
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Ubuntu GNOME: Challenge Accepted
Hi,As with each and every cycle, we review what we have achieved and discuss what we need to do next. Starting from this cycle (Vivid Vervet), we decided to do things differently and of course, better....
View ArticleStuart Langridge: Vouching for webmentions; hashing for vouches
As mentioned yesterday I’ve enabled webmentions on this site. Now, webmentions could have the same spam problem that Pingback has, and so one of the proposed solutions is Vouch, where when you send a...
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Joel Leclerc: Estsaver v0.1.2 – First “stable” release, plus a website!
After a bit of work, there is finally a stable release for estsaver!The changes between 0.1 and 0.1.2:More options for controlling the vignette in the “minimal” screen lockerPrevent estsaver from...
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Daniel Holbach: Mailing list woes
Despite being an “old” technology and having its problems, we still use mailing lists… a lot. Some of the lists have been cleaned up by the Community Council some time ago, especially if they were...
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Eric Hammond: S3 Bucket Notification to SQS/SNS on Object Creation
A fantastic new and oft-requested AWS feature was released during AWS re:Invent, but has gotten lost in all the hype about AWS Lambda functions being triggered when objects are added to S3 buckets. AWS...
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Ubuntu App Developer Blog: The Showdown deadline is approaching, get your...
The 5 weeks after the Ubuntu Scopes Showdown announcement are coming to an end, it’s time to start putting the pencils down and submitting your scopes for the judges to do their reviews.While you’ve...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 394
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #394 for the week November 24 – 30, 2014, and the full version is available here.In this issue we cover:Meizu and Canonical sign strategic...
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Svetlana Belkin: Introducing Linux Padawan: Mentoring for All Linux Folks
Today was the release day of Linux Padawan, a free mentoring service that is aimed for all Linux users, new and old, to learn new skills from masters. Any one can be a padawan or a master, just come...
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Raphaël Hertzog: My Free Software Activities in November 2014
My monthly report covers a large part of what I have been doing in the free software world. I write it for my donators (thanks to them!) but also for the wider Debian community because it can give...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: Kernel Team Meeting Minutes – December 02, 2014
Meeting MinutesIRC Log of the meeting.Meeting minutes.Agenda20141202 Meeting AgendaRelease Metrics and Incoming Bugs Release metrics and incoming bug data can be reviewed at the following...
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Costales: A tiny home computer with Ubuntu: "imp"
I saw an Indiegogo campaign for this awesome device: imp.impSpecifications:129$ (early bird)ARM v92GB RAM16GB on-device storageReally small size Ubuntu 14.04 (with imp desktop) ... read all...
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Eric Hammond: Before You Buy Amazon EC2 (New) Reserved Instances
understand the commitment you are making to pay for the entire 1-3 yearsAmazon just announced a change in the way that Reserved Instances are sold. Instead of selling the old Reserved Instance...
View ArticleJono Bacon: Feedback Requested: Great Examples of Community
Folks, I need to ask for some help.Like many, I have some go-to examples of great communities. This includes Wikipedia, OpenStreetmap, Ubuntu, Debian, Linux, and others. Many of these are software...
View ArticleNicholas Skaggs: Creating multi-arch click packages
Click packages are one of the pieces of new technology that drives the next version of ubuntu on the phone and desktop. In a nutshell click packages allow for application developers to easily package...
View ArticleJorge Castro: Owncloud charm ready for 14.04
Matt Bruzek and Jose Antonio Rey have now updated the tests and charm forOwncloud for 14.04, you can find it here at the snazzy new jujucharms.com.https://jujucharms.com/trusty/owncloudNote that this...
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Zygmunt Krynicki: Checkbox [Touch] 1.0.2 now available in the Ubuntu click...
This is a re-post from my G+ post but I think it's such an important milestone that we should let everyone know about it :-)Hello everyone. After a bit of silence I'm super pleased to announce that...
View ArticleOmer Akram: Making autopilot 'human'
A bit late to share a feature that I implemented in Autopilot. First, a lot of thanks to Chris Lee for having the patience for the code review.Autopilot is a test running that we at Canonical use for...
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