Charline Poirier says, "This time, I had the pleasure of working with Andreas Nilsson, who came to London to observe the sessions. It was very useful to get his feedback and to work collaboratively with him on the analysis and implications of the findings." Poirier continues, "In addition to these benefits of our work together, there is an added one: since he observed participants struggling with certain...
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Jono Bacon, the Ubuntu Community Manager announces on his blog the Ubuntu Global Jam and issue a call for events.What is the Ubuntu Global Jam?The Ubuntu Global Jam is an incredible opportunity for the Ubuntu community to unite together around the a given weekend to work together to improve Ubuntu. Everyone is able to contribute to the Jam, and everyone is welcome and encouraged to get involved. Curious about how to ma...
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Once again Ubuntu Developer Week is around the corner and the community is invited to participate.What is Ubuntu Developer Week?Ubuntu Developer Week is an online, week of tutorial sessions targeted for all skill levels of Ubuntu Developers that help strengthen the Ubuntu Developer skills and community. Ubuntu Developer Week is a free online event that is open to all.When is Ubuntu Developer Week?Ubuntu Developer Week...
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Elizabeth Krumbach on behalf of the Ubuntu Community Council announced in an email to various mailing lists, and posted on the Ubuntu Fridge that the licensing for the Ubuntu wiki will be CC-BY-SA and barring a "substantial number of objections" this change should take place in approximately one month.Krumbach writes in the email, &quo...
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Reminder: Open Your World Webinar hosted by Gen. (Ret) Hugh Shelton
screenshoot on opensource.com about the Open Your World webinar
General (Gen.) Hugh Shelton, the 14th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, author of Without Hesitation-The Odyssey of an American Warrior, and current Red Hat Board Chairman will be hosting. The 'Open Your World' Webinar will take place on Wednesday, February 16th, 2011 from 2:00-3:00pm...
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You're invited to GNOME 3 User Days What are GNOME 3 User Days?GNOME 3 User Days are a great opportunity for users to find out about GNOME 3 and to talk to members of the GNOME project about the new release. Everyone is welcome to get involved and ask questions about GNOME 3.When will GNOME 3 User Days be held?The first GNOME 3 User Day will be held on 15 February 2011
(UTC time), and will take...
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Announced last week, the Ubuntu Managers at Canonical are giving weekly Q & A sessions to the community. Originally to be held in the ubuntu-meeting channel, these sessions have been moved to the moderated #ubuntu-classroom and #ubuntu-classroom-chat IRC channels on irc.freenode.net.Last week's session was with Pete Graner, the Ubuntu Kernel Team Manager at Canonical. Talking About Ubuntu has a great easily readable (not in IRC log form) summary of this session.Today's Q&A Session: To...
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Robert Roth announces this week's Ubuntu Bug Day on the ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list. If you are interested in helping "squash" some LibreOffice and OpenOffice bugs in Ubuntu then you are invited to help the Ubuntu BugSquad.Below is from the announcement and more.This week's Bug Day targets are *drum roll please* LibreOffice and OpenOffice!
* #100 New bugs need a hug
* #43 Incomplete bugs need a statu...
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Are you a community leader? Have you ever wondered what being a community leader is all about? Have you ever wanted to help shape a community? Have you ever wanted to meet various community leaders throughout the Free and Open Source communities? Are you already planning on attending OSCON? If you answered "yes" to any or all of these questions then Community Leadership Summit (CLS) is for you. CLS is now its...
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Ahmed Kamal, the Ubuntu cloud community liaison interviews Greg Taylor to discuss “media-nommer” an open-source cloud based distributed media encoding system that runs over the Ubuntu server platform over Amazon EC2.
Ahmed Kamal: Hi Greg, obviously I'm very interested in cloud based technologies and scalable apps. I know you have done some great work building a distributed media encoder cloud application based on Ubuntu server running over the Amazon EC2 cloud. Would you please give us some b...
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