Author Archives: boredandblogging

On-Call Review

Time for another exciting Packaging Training Session. This time is going to be a bit unusual, we are going to be very hands-on. We will have Colin Watson, Daniel Holbach, James Westby and Sébastien Bacher around who will review your patches, updates and other sponsoring requests while you are there and point out problems on […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #154

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #154 for the week August 2nd – August 8th, 2009 is available. In this issue we cover: * Karmic Alpha 4 freeze ahead * Landscape: Canonical Systems Management & Monitoring Tool * Ubuntu Stats * ubuntu-ph.org is back in business * First Launchpad community meet-up * Code Hosting […]

How to upgrade a package properly

Following up last week’s great session about Mozilla Packaging Techniques, Emmet Hikory (persia) will be giving a session about how to upgrade a package properly. The session will take place on August 6th, at 6:00 UTC in #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net. We hope to see you there. As always, if you are interested in viewing the […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #153

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #153 for the week July 26th – August 1st, 2009 is available. In this issue we cover: * Canonical to Offer Ubuntu Desktop Support & Services * Ubuntu Stats * Free Books for Approved LoCo teams * DC LoCo Bug Jam * Atlanta Linux Fest & Mini Ubucon […]

FRIDGE EVENTS CALENDAR

From the standpoint of one who gathers information for the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter (UWN), I see some confusion about how to use the Fridge Events Calendar. Information is given in a link ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Fridge/Calendar ) at the top of the Fridge Calendar page ( http://fridge.ubuntu.com/calendar ). There is also help available to you by either […]