Ahmed Kamal of the Ubuntu Community Team at Canonical is hosting the first online Ubuntu Cloud Days event this week on March 23 and 24, 2011.What you can expect to learn at Ubuntu Cloud DaysUsers who are interested in using Ubuntu Server on the Cloud and want to know more about it can find out more during the Ubuntu Cloud Days event.During the Ubuntu Cloud Days Event users can expect to find out more about:
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Amber Graner interviews Jesse Noller, PyCon conference co-chair, keynote coordinator, and program committee chair in this interview for the PyCon Personality Interview series.Amber Graner: Can you tell us a little about you and your role with the PyCon? How long you have worked on this event?Jesse Noller: Currently, I am co-chair of the conference and I acted as the Keynote coordinator and Program Committee chair this...
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Google Developer Advocate, Wesley Chun takes a few moments out of his schedule to give Amber Graner a little history lesson about PyCon and his journey to Python, and more.Amber Graner: Can you tell us a little about you and your role with the PyCon? How long you have worked on this event?Wesley Chun: My name is Wesley Chun, and I've been a fixture in the Python community since I started learning it back in 1997. At th...
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As I continue to highlight PyCon planners in prepartion for PyCon this week in Atlanta, Georgia, I'd like to introduce you to Vern Ceder, PyCon planner, Python developer, and author.Amber Graner: Can you tell us a little about you and your role with the PyCon? How long you have worked on this event?Vern Ceder: I’ve been going to PyCon since 2003. For the past several years I’ve helped organize the Python in Educa...
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As PyCon gets set to kick off in Atlanta, Georgia this week, I wanted to introduce organizers who help bring together all the various aspects of the Python community. In this interview meet Catherine Devlin.Amber Graner: Can you tell us a little about you and your role with the PyCon? How long you have worked on this event?Catherine Devline: I think this is my third year as PyCon’s Publicity Coordinator; for two years...
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Personally I think paying it forward is a more viable way to ensure that open source initiatives succeed, says
Steve Holden, Chairman, Python Software Foundation.
Steve Holden
PyCon, organized by volunteers in the Python community, brings together the community that uses and develops the open-source Python programming language. PyCon 2011 will be held in on March 7-17, at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, Georgia.PyCon pl...
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"The Ubuntu developers are moving quickly to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the Open Source community has to offer. The Natty Narwhal Alpha 3 Release of Ubuntu 11.04, is a developer snapshot to give you an early glance at the next version of Ubuntu," states the first line of the Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha 3 wiki.The wiki gives instructions on how and where users can go to get the Alpha 3 of Natty. If you are wanting to find out what's new, what's been updated, how to h...
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I mentioned Ubuntu Developer Week when the sessions were announced a few weeks ago and wanted to take a moment to remind readers that Ubuntu Developer week is now underway.For those who want to get started with Ubuntu Development or want to become a more proficient Ubuntu developer then take a look at what sessions took place yesterday as well as what is scheduled for all of this week.Ubuntu Developer Week still has four (4) days left and packed full of exciting things to help users become de...
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Kate Stewart the Ubuntu Release Manager at Canonical announced the 10.04.2 update on Ubuntu announce mailing list.In update release announcement Stewart writes, "This is the second maintenance release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, which continues to be supported with maintenance updates and security fixes until April 2013 on desktops and April 2015 on servers.She continues, "Numerous post-release updates have been int...
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This Week's Ubuntu Q&A Session:This week's session will be with Allison Randal, Ubuntu Technical Architect at Canonical on Friday, February 18, 2011, at 5:30pm (UTC) in the #ubuntu-classroom and #ubuntu-classroom-chat IRC Channels.How To Participate:To participate join the following IRC channels on irc.freenode.net: #ubuntu-classroom and #ubuntu-classroom-chat. Williamson will be presenting and answering questions...
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