LinuxFests like this one in Ohio is just one of the many ways FOSS and especially Ubuntu users can get involved with the Ubuntu Community and at the same time experience the greater FOSS Communities. It's important to let people know that by attending an event like this you are supporting FO...
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With Ohio LinuxFest just around the corner I thought it was about time we added the planners for this awesome LinuxFest to join in the People, Personalities, and Planners series. In this first interview for the Ohio LinuxFest Planners I am talking to Beth Lynn Eicher. Before we move on to th...
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In this interview I chat with Stormy Peters about GNOME, Ubuntu and more. I had the opportunity to ask Stormy for an interview during a brief conversation at OSCON earlier this year. Stormy like most people at OSCON had a pretty full schedule and wasn't able to participate in this impromptu request. However, I did ask if I could send her a few questions for an interview to be published on this blog and I am really glad she agreed. Below are Stormy's answers. So without further delay -- Introd...
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In this interview I talk to Ken Vandine, Ubuntu Desktop Integration Engineer, about Gwibber and my awkward first conversation with him about Gwibber.Ken thank you so much for taking time for this interview. So let me give some history for folks who may not have heard me tell this story...
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It's no secret how much I love the animal code names and reasoning behind each name and today Mark Shuttleworth announced the Ubuntu 11.04 codename on his Blog. Below is Mark's blog post in full.Oh yes, it’s that time of year again, when numerate pollsters make nasal proclamations about the...
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I had the opportunity to talk to John Johansen about AppArmor after I saw a tweet today from Pete Graner about AppArmor being accepted upstream into the 2.6.36 kernel. Matt Zimmerman and Pete Graner also took a moment to give me their thoughts on what this means as well.I asked Matt Zimmerman, Canonical CTO, about how he viewed this announcement. He said, "I'm very pleased with AppArmor's acceptance by the Linux kernel community, and appreciate all of the effort which went into get...
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In this interview I am introducing folks to Ahmed Kamal. Ahmed is the newest member of the Ubuntu Community Team and has been tasked with the job of growing the Ubuntu Cloud Community. First of all, Ahmed thank you so much for taking time out of your busy days to answer a few questions and l...
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Have you ever wanted to know more about some of the Ubuntu derivative distributions? In this interview we look at Ubuntu Studio with Scott Lavender Ubuntu Member and Project Lead for the Ubuntu Studio Project.
Amber Graner: Scott can you tell readers a little about yourself and how long you...
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OSCON 2010 was awesome as usual! It was great working the booth again this year with Rikki Kite, Joe Casad, as well as capturing interviews on the floor of OSCON with Trevan McGee!
Amber Graner and Rikki Kite at the Linux Pro/Ubuntu User Boot...
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Ubuntu Developer Week is off to a great start. The day started out with Daniel Holbach introducing and welcoming everyone to Ubuntu Developer Week. There were plenty of questions from those who participated and the questions continued throughout the day. The active conversation really made each of the sessions come alive and the session leaders did a great job of answering as many questions as possible during each of their respective session.Did you miss Day 1? Don't worry below is a descript...
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