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Benjamin Kerensa: Interview with Ubuntu Contributor Cody Smith
Cody at a Ubuntu Global Jam in 2013.I recently reached out to Cody Smith who is a long time contributor to the Ubuntu Oregon LoCo. He has ran an Ubuntu Hour nearly every Friday for last couple of years...
View ArticleJason Gerard DeRose: How to enable perfect-forward-secrecy in Python 3.3
One of the many reasons to use Python3 is the ssl.SSLContext, which gives you quite comprehensive control of how you use TLS from Python. As of Python 3.3, SSLContext supports perfect-forward-secrecy,...
View ArticleThe Fridge: Trusty Alpha 2 Available for Testing
The second Alpha of Trusty Tahr (to become 14.04 LTS) has now been released for testers and early adopters.This alpha features images for Edubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, Xubuntu and...
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Alan Pope: January 2014 Core Apps Hack Day One – Reminders and Music
As David blogged yesterday, we’re having another round of Core Apps Hack Days for our Ubuntu Phone Core AppsEach day we’re focussing on two apps, today that’s Reminders and Music, but as always we...
View ArticlePaul Tagliamonte: Thanks, Valve (thalve)
I took Valve’s offer up (by way of the kickass Collabora folks) for some games. I can confirm that I got them, and it looks like it’s working great.Just want to give a shout-out and express my...
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Benjamin Kerensa: MozStumbler Experience Getting Better
The MozStumbler App is continuing to improve for those who are contributing location data to the Mozilla Location Service which has a goal of building experimental geo-location data based on publicly...
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Ian Weisser: Transit schedule data demystified - using GTFS
General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) is the Google-originated standard format for transit route, stop, trip, schedule, map, and fare data. Everything except realtime.It's called a feed because it...
View ArticleUbuntu LoCo Council: Team Check-Ins, coming soon to your LoCo Team!
Hello again!This time we would like to announce that we have just started a process of team check-ins. Most team contacts should get an email from any of the members of the LoCo Council with some...
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Sam Hewitt: Vichyssoise (a.k.a Leek & Potato Soup)
Vichyssoise is a (French-y) soup made of puréed leek, onion, potato, cream, & stock. Traditionally you eat it cold, however, I prefer to eat it hot.Ingredients3-4 leeks –you'll be using the white...
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Ubuntu Classroom: Saucy Ubuntu User Days Wrap-up
On January 25-26th 2014 we hosted Ubuntu User Days in the Ubuntu Classroom.If you weren’t able to join us, or just want to refresh your memory about what you learned, logs from all sessions are now...
View ArticleMatthew Helmke: Today’s Sermon
I had the privilege of delivering the sermon this morning at New Song Episcopal Church in Coralville, Iowa. If you are reading this introduction via an RSS feed and are interested in the rest of the...
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Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph: My pink WASD keyboard
I like the color pink. Over the years I’ve collected lots of pink electronics that have measured up to their non-pink counterparts, from pink ethernet cables (hey, that’s my photo on Gizmodo!) to my...
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Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph: CloudCamp Hackathon and Ubuntu User Days
I’ve had a busy weekend! On Friday night I headed over to the San Francisco Hub for a CloudCamp Social Good Hackathon sponsored by HP Cloud (my employer) and Intel.The event kicked off with an...
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Sam Hewitt: Potentially-Vegan Chocolate Cheesecake
Silken (or "soft") tofu, is not as versatile as it's firmer counterpart, but I know it as a good egg substitute, so when I mistakenly purchased a brick of soft tofu I thought I'd bake with it.While...
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Benjamin Mako Hill: My Geekhouse Bike Frame
In 2011, Mika and I bought in big at the Boston Red Bones party’s charity raffle — supporting MassBike and NEMBA— and came out huge. I won $500 off a custom frame at Geekouse Bikes.For years, Mika and...
View ArticleAndrea Colangelo: Debian-based SteamOS. Wait… what? Debian? SRSLY?
A few days ago, several sources reported that SteamOS, the long-announced game-oriented OS has been released by Valve. Steam is a gaming platform currently available for Ubuntu, and it has been a major...
View ArticleJo Shields: Dear Debian Developers, lrn2gpg
For some strange reason, I’ve been receiving a lot of GPG-signed mail from Debian Developers and Maintainers lately. In response to each of these mails, I need to send a GPG-encrypted reply. The rate...
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Alan Pope: January 2014 Core Apps Hack Day Two – Calendar and RSS Reader
See also January 2014 Core Apps Hack Day One – Reminders and Music.Day two of the January 2014 Core Apps Hack Days brings focus to Calendar and RSS Reader (a.k.a. ‘Shorts’), but as always we welcome...
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Tony Whitmore: Helen Thompson
This isn’t my usual sort of blog post, so please bear with me.Last summer I worked for Neil Thomas Douglas as second photographer at a wedding in Oxfordshire. James and Helen had put a lot of thought...
View ArticleKubuntu: Trusty Alpha 2 Available for Testing
Trusty Alpha 2 Available for Testing. The Alpha 2 images can be downloaded at: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/trusty/alpha-2/. More information on Kubuntu Alpha 2 can be found here...
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