Author Archives: boredandblogging

TechBoard 2009

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-09-01

Thank you to everyone who voted in the Tech Board election, which came to a result last night. We had 84 votes from 130 eligible voters. The new Tech Board in reverse alphabetical surname order is: Matt Zimmerman Mark Shuttleworth Scott James Remnant Martin Pitt Kees Cook Detailed results are available at: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~andru/cgi-perl/civs/results.pl?id=E_e09bf9bea196cfff Thanks also […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #157

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-08-30

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #157 for the week August 23rd – August 29th, 2009 is available. In this issue we cover: * Karmic: Feature Freeze in place – Alpha 5 freeze ahead * Ubuntu Stats * LoCo News: Pennsylvania, Arizona, Mexico, & Georgia * Launchpad: Wear your badge with pride * Launchpad: […]

Feature Freeze in place; Alpha 5 freeze ahead

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-08-27

The Feature Freeze is now in effect for Karmic. The focus from here until release is on fixing bugs and polishing. If you believe that a new package, a new upstream version of a package, or a new feature is needed for the release and will not introduce more problems than it fixes, please follow […]

Feature Freeze this Thursday

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-08-25

The Karmic Feature Freeze is scheduled for this Thursday, August 27. This means that all of your Karmic-targeted specs should be either at Beta Available or Postponed by the end of day on Wednesday. Please make sure to update the status of your specs. You should check that packages you care about are at a […]

UbuCon at Atlanta Linux Fest 2009

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-08-24

Atlanta Linux Fest 2009 will be Saturday, September 19th 2009, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The event is being organized by the Ubuntu Georgia US Team. The event is distribution-agnostic. There will be presentations on Fedora’s remixing capabilities and openSUSE’s build service. General topics important to the open source community will also be presented like the […]