Author Archives: boredandblogging

Vote now for a more supportive future!

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-07-15

Evan, seen lurking here in the background, has a favour to ask. Stackoverflow is a website that allows professional and enthusiast developers to ask questions of one another in order to share ideas, solutions and make the life of developers better. It’s an extremely high quality resource but those clever folks over at Stack Overflow […]

Announcing this week's Bug Day target – Pidgin – Thursday, July 15th, 2010!

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-07-13

This week’s Bug Day target is *drum roll please* Pidgin! The task is to assign to the right package and triage those as well: 100 New bugs need a hug 78 Incompletes bugs need a status check 100 Confirmed bugs need a review Bookmark it, add it to your calendars, turn over those egg-timers! Thursday, […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #201

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-07-12

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #201 for the week July 4th – July 10th and is available here. In this issue we cover: Welcome New Ubuntu Members Kubuntu developer wins KDE Akademy 2010 Award The Ubuntu Font Ubuntu Developer Week Indicator Panel Menu Rocks the House Ubuntu Translations Interviews: Milo Casagrande […]

LoCos, Leaders, and Lessons Learned: Massachusetts Team

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-07-09

Article contributed by Amber Graner In the latest LoCo Team interview in this US Teams Interview Series – LoCos, Leaders, and Lessons Learned, Amber Graner talks to Martin Owens of the Ubuntu Massachusetts LoCo Team. Martin talks about the tools the team uses, events they attend as well as help with, and what advice the […]

Live: Kubuntu "Qt Quick" tutorial @ 18:00UTC

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-07-07

Superstar developer Johan Thelin will introduce you to Qt programming, the software system underlaying KDE and Kubuntu For those who previously read about prize-winning Kubuntu developer Aurélien Gâteau, you’ll be please to know dishing out prizes and lots of sauna aren’t the only thing happening at the international KDE Akademy 2010 conference happening this week […]