The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 332
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #332 for the week August 26 – September 1, 2013, and the full version is available here.In this issue we cover:Call for Nominations to the LoCo...
View ArticleRandall Ross: Ubuntu Global Jam - Call for Events!
The Ubuntu Global Jam ("Saucy Salamander" cycle edition) is quickly approaching! This event is when the entire Ubuntu community comes together to make a real difference to Ubuntu and to have a great...
View ArticleAlan Pope: Ubuntu Touch Weather and Calendar Hack Day
This is the second in a series of blog posts highlighting the Ubuntu Touch Core AppsHack Days we’re currently running. They run from Monday 2nd September till Monday 9th September 2013 and cover all 12...
View ArticleRaphaël Hertzog: Finding a new name for the Package Tracking System
The Google Summer of Code rewriting the Package Tracking System is approaching its end and I’m starting to think about deploying it on debian.org. Its scope has expanded over the years and the...
View ArticleJonathan Riddell: Kubuntu Commercial Support
KDE Project: DCOP As reported on Slashdot Commercial Support is available again for Kubuntu. If you or your organisation needs help with your computer systems running Kubuntu but you don't want to...
View ArticleUbuntu LoCo Council: Get Your LoCo Moving – Global Jam is Coming!
Hey all!, the new Ubuntu Global Jam Edition is coming next 13, 14 and 15 September 2013!So this is a great opportunity to get together and meet other Ubuntu fans and contributors, make new friends in...
View ArticleUbuntu Kernel Team: Kernel Team Meeting Minutes – September 03, 2013
Meeting MinutesIRC Log of the meeting.Meeting minutes.Agenda20130903 Meeting AgendaARM Status Latest bits for Calxeda Midway and LPAE support were pulled in S/master-next. Work continues on making the...
View ArticleLubuntu Blog: Beta 1 is out
Ubuntu QA finally cooked the first beta of Lubuntu 13.10 a.k.a. Saucy Salamander. You can grab it and install for (I never get tired of saying this) testing purposes only. Goto to Ubuntu QA and choose...
View ArticleLaura Czajkowski: Meeting the EMEA MongoDB Masters – Aristarkh Zagorodnikov
Continuing our series of getting to know the MongoDB Masters, we go further east and meet Aristarkh Zagorodnikov who is based In Moscow Russia.Meet Aristarkh Zagorodnikov Me: Who are you, what do you...
View ArticleJonathan Jesse: My First KDE Contribution and looking for more
I have contributed in various ways to the Ubuntu Project starting way back in the day with the first release of Kubuntu and its need for documentation. This first release was my first introduction...
View ArticleJavier L.: You cannot organizate an UGJ if you’re not part of a LoCo team
The Ubuntu Global Jam is an incredible opportunity for the Ubuntu community to unite together around a weekend generally one month before the release of Ubuntu. However if you’re not part of any ubuntu...
View ArticleBenjamin Kerensa: Ubuntu Documentation Needs You!
As we near the Ubuntu Documentation freeze I wanted to highlight a piece of work that the Documentation team could use help with. In past releases we have used a bash script to collect fresh...
View ArticleMarcin Juszkiewicz: My first day with Fedora
Yesterday I switched my home desktop from Ubuntu 13.10 to Fedora 19 to have work environment ready for my Red Hat tasks.Installation was easy as Fedora installer does not ask too many questions. But...
View ArticleAlan Pope: Ubuntu Touch File Manager and Music Hack Day
This is the third in a series of blog posts highlighting the Ubuntu Touch Core AppsHack Days we’re currently running. They run from Monday 2nd September till Monday 9th September 2013 and cover all 12...
View ArticleJorge Castro: Hands on with the CODE Keyboard
I must warn you, I’m a keyboard snob. Not even the kind of keyboard snob people like, I’m a mechnical keyboard snob. To me a good day is spent mashing away at the pinnacle of human achievement, the IBM...
View ArticleSam Hewitt: Moka GTK Theme is Released!
After extensive fiddling with GTK/CSS to iron out most of the bugs in Moka GTK, I feel it is stable enough for a public release. So have at it!Having said that, I am not fully aware of Moka’s GTK...
View ArticleAlan Pope: Ubuntu Touch RSS Reader and Stock Ticker Hack Day
On day four of our Ubuntu Touch Hack Days we’re focussing on the RSS Reader and Stock Ticker apps. See also my previous posts about Ubuntu Touch Clock & Calculator, Weather & Calendar and File...
View ArticleStuart Langridge: My dad’s in the paper
Bit of backstory, here. A while back, Tesco 1 opened a new store in Potton, the town where I grew up and my parents still live 2. As part of the agreement, they apparently said that people could park...
View ArticleDustin Kirkland: Ubuntu Fun with $PS1
tl;dr? From within byobu, just run: byobu-enable-promptStill reading?I've helped bring a touch of aubergine to the Ubuntu server before. Along those lines, it has long bothered me that Ubuntu's bash...
View ArticleUbuntu LoCo Council: Updating Shippit to the New Term
Hi LocoTeams!In this moment we are working to update the new term -verified- and this change brings some troubles, by instance the LocoTeams can’t order CDs in this moment, all this is because we are...
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