Monthly Archives: February 2012

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 254

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #254 for the week February 20 – 26, 2012, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Sound theme results Ubuntu in your pocket Ubuntu 12.04 Countdown banner competition Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update Awesome Unity Contributions We had a great Fix-It Friday! […]

Interview with Balloons

I came across Balloons in the #ubuntu-community-team a few months ago when seeking some advice on a forum matter. Balloons is a “new” member of the Canonical Community Team working as the QA Community Coordinator. I asked if he would be willing to do an interview, he said yes and here we are now… 1. […]

Juju Charm Contest – Help bring Free Software into the cloud

I’m proud to announce the first ever Juju Charm Contest! Right now we have 51 services that you can easily deploy via juju on EC2, OpenStack, and bare metal. However there is so much Free Software out there that can run in the cloud, and we’d like to see what creative ways you can help […]

Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update

Development Update Nine weeks until release and one thing is clear already: 12.04 will be a kick-arse release. Thanks everyone for your hard work on it! Still there’s a few things which still need to get done. Today User Interface Freeze and Beta Freeze will kick in, next week we will do a test rebuild […]

Interview with Gema Gomez-Solano

Elizabeth Krumbach: Can you tell us a little about yourself? Gema Gomez-Solano: I love good software and computers. When I was at high school, and I watched the film Sneakers, I decided to become a Computer Engineer. I admired those computer wizards who could do almost anything with a keyboard. I really wanted to be […]