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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On January 26, Rick Spencer, Canonical's Desktop Manager, announced via the ubuntu-desktop mailing list that Ubuntu 10.04 would be switching to Yahoo as it's default search provider inside Firefox. In this email Rick expressed the following:"...I am writing to apprise you of two small but important changes coming to Firefox in Lucid. ...Change #1 In Lucid, the default home page will respect the search provider set...
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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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