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Jono Bacon: Designers Needed to Help Build Software to Teach Kids Literacy
Designers! Imagine you could design a piece of Open Source tablet software that teaches a child how to read, write, and perform arithmetic, without the aid of a teacher. This is not designed to replace...
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Dustin Kirkland: Security and Biometrics: SXSW Preview Q&A
Rebecca: Can you give me a brief overview of why you see it as a problem that our personal biometrics, at this point mostly fingerprints, are being used to authenticate our actions rather than identify...
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Canonical Design Team: Auto-syncing revision history from Github to Launchpad
In the design team we keep some projects in Launchpad (as canonical-webmonkeys), and some project in Github (as UbuntuDesign), meaning we work in both Bazaar and Git.The need to synchronise Github to...
View ArticleAndrea Veri: The GNOME Infrastructure Apprentice Program
Many times it happened seeing someone joining the #sysadmin IRC channel requesting participation to the team after having spent around 5 minutes trying to explain what the skills and the knowledge were...
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Jonathan Riddell: Planet KDE Theme from Season of KDE
Season KDE is KDE’s annual project to give helpers a more structured way to take part in KDE. It’s inspired by Summer of Code of course.Today I had the pleasure of launching the new Planet KDE website...
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Randall Ross: Are You Bullish on OpenPOWER?
Earlier, I blogged about my belief that OpenPOWER represents the next big disruption in the server space. Turns out I'm not alone. Check out what another author has to say:"My personal belief is...
View ArticleKubuntu: Plasma 5.2 Released
Packages for the release of Plasma 5.2 are available for Kubuntu Plasma5 14.10 and our development release. You can get them from the Kubuntu Next Backports PPA for 14.10, users of the development...
View ArticleZygmunt Krynicki: The story of a certain one liner that failed in doctests
This is a pretty long story. Unusually enough, I'll let the code speak: """This module is the result of an evening of frustration caused by the need tosupport Python 3.2 and a failing doctest that...
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Ben Howard: [BETA] New Cloud Image Finder
One of the perennial problems in the Cloud is knowing what is the most current image and where to find it. Some Clouds provide a nice GUI console, an API, or some combination. But what has been missing...
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Joel Leclerc: Track: Dawn of a new Era
I made this track a while back, and I hope you’ll enjoy it! =D Linux-wise? Umm … it was made on a linux machine … using wine for like, everything …. but it was on a linux machine!! =p Spent ~60 hours...
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Daniel Holbach: Always something new…
What do Kinshasa, Omsk, Paris, Mexico City, Eugene, Denver, Tempe, Catonsville, Fairfax, Dania Beach, San Francisco and various places on the internet have in common?Right, they’re all participating in...
View ArticleStuart Langridge: Temporarily older than Benedict Cumberbatch for six months...
Jesus Christ on a one-wheeled bicycle, I’m thirty-nine. Next year I’ll be forty. But that’s pretty cool. People congratulate you for that. Thirty-nine? My parents are thirty-nine.Well, no, obviously...
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Raphaël Hertzog: My Free Software Activities for January 2015
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...
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James Page: Ubuntu OpenStack Charms: 15.01 release
The Ubuntu Server team is pleased to announce their first interim release, 15.01, of charm features and fixes for the Ubuntu OpenStack charms for Juju– here are some selected...
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Costales: Día U - 7 Welcome on board
I will be inLondon from 2 to7 February for the Ubuntu Phone Launch Event.If you want to walk the City or take a beer together one of those days, ping me here or in the comments |o/All will change the...
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Randall Ross: What Does Getting Thrashed Feel Like?
Ubuntu runs on POWER8. That's likely not news to many of you. But what hopefully is news, is that you're not allowed to say "So what?" any more. (Call it "Randall's Rule of POWER"). By doing so, you...
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Carla Sella
Ubuntu Phone Glimpse: DevelopersToday as an Ubuntu Phone insider I got some more news on Ubuntu Phone, it's about Developer entry points, here it is:Hi Insiders,Within this Phone Glimpse we'll be...
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Ronnie Tucker: The first Full Circle of 2015, FCM#93, is here!
This month:* Command & Conquer* How-To : RTL-SDR Radio, LibreOffice, and Ubuntu Kiosk* Graphics : Inkscape.* Linux Labs: Compiling a Kernel Pt 6 and Trying FreeBSD * Review: Ubuntu Mate 14.10 *...
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Riccardo Padovani: Calculator Reboot 2.0.85: Favourite mode
Yes, yes, I know, I’m late with this update. You expected it yesterday, as usual, but I have a good reason. Today we landed some new sparkling features, so now you can test them :-) As usual, please...
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Jamie Strandboge: Snappy app trust model
Most of this has been discussed on mailing lists, blog entries, etc, while developing Ubuntu Touch, but I wanted to write up something that ties together these conversations for Snappy. This will...
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