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 FOSS and participating in these communities. Everyone is welcome and whether you installed Ubuntu yesterday or you are a seasoned Li...
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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 the questions I have to give a little background about meeting Beth Lynn for the first time I want to share.
It was last y...
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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 --
Intro...
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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.
Ken if you remember Gwibber started out for me as a love/hate thing. The NC LoCo team had organized a Jaunty Release part and...
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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 naming of the next next version of Ubuntu. When gazers of balls crystal provide nifty suggestions for new new features and, of course, suitable nomenclature to match.
What will it be? A Naiant Nailtail wou...
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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 let the Ubuntu community get to know you and how they can contribute to the *Cloud* areas in Ubuntu. Back in July
Jono Bacon intro...
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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 have been involved with Ubuntu and Ubuntu Studio?
Scott Lavender: My name is Scott Lavender and I’m in my first release as the...
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