Earlier today, I had the opportunity to speak with Billy Cina, Director of Training for Canonical. In this phone interview I gleaned a preview of significant changes being made to -- The Ubuntu Certified Professional certification (UCP) course -- expect to see this announced on Thursday, April 22, 2010.Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, is due to release on April 29th, 2010 with a new look, a lighter feel, faster boot times, but as you...
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1st Annual Ubuntu Women World Play Day Competition Announced!If you or someone you know has a daughter between 2 and 12 years of age AND they use Ubuntu (or a derivative ie Kubuntu, Qimo etc) then this competition is for you!Below is the original announcement that was sent to the Ubuntu Women Mailing List by Melissa Draper on Tue Apr 13 16:58:21 BST 2010.
Greetings all!Following the success of our International Women's...
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Last year at this time, I had only been involved with Ubuntu and the Open Source community a little over a month. All things Ubuntu and Open Source in respects to my personal involvement were new, exciting and awesomely overwhelming and I hate to admit it but, I did not blog about anyone for Ada Lovelace Day 2009.That said I have to admit in the last year I have been given the opportunity to meet and get to know so man...
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Today on the Ubuntu-announce mailing list where all the great Ubuntu announcements are made, Steve Langasek, Ubuntu Release Manager, sent out the announcement to the community that Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - Beta 1 has been released. Below is the announcement in total: The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the first beta release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) Desktop, Server, and Netbook editions and of Ubuntu 10.04 Server for Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) and Amazon's EC2. Codenamed &...
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According to a post on The Fridge - Ubuntu will once again participate in the Google Summer of Code.The Ubuntu Google Summer of Code wiki describes the participation this way: It is a great opportunity to expose new students to the wonderful world of Ubuntu, get some exciting projects off the ground and get good exposure for the projects, students and organisations alike.
The main goal for this program is to encourage university student participation in the open source world. It is a great op...
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As the Ubuntu Community is gearing up for the release of Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx, there are those, myself included, who are anxiously awaiting the announcement of the code name of Ubuntu 10.10? I went looking around the wiki's to see what I could find out about how each release gets it's name. I found a great Development Code Names wiki. Here's what I found out. What do the numbers and n...
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Today is International Women's Day and the Ubuntu Women Project held a "How I discovered Ubuntu."competition in honor of this event. The Competition which was announced back in January, asked women and girls who use Ubuntu to submit their "How I discovered Ubuntu" stories. This is the beginning of a collection of stories that can be built upon each year and will allow the Ubuntu Women Project to dem...
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Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx will be bringing more than faster boot times and open drivers to users this spring, it will radiate "Light" throughout the community with a face lift for the future. Within the Ubuntu Community there is a wiki for *every* thing it seems and the new brand is no different so let's see what the wiki tells us about this new and polished look and feel of the Ubuntu Brand.The Ubuntu Wiki,Br...
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