Author Archives: boredandblogging

Weekly News #53

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-08-19

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 53 for the week August 12th – August 18th, 2007 is now available. In this issue we cover Celebratory Hug Day for GNOME, updates on compromised community servers and LoCo options, LinuxMCE Media Centre addon for Kubuntu, the Portuguese Team’s effort to put FOSS in schools, and much much more. […]

LinuxMCE Releases Media Center Addon for Kubuntu

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-08-17

Dot News, the KDE news site, has recently written about the new release of LinuxMCE. LinuxMCE is a free and open source add-on for the Kubuntu operating system. The new release, 0704, provides an add-on CD for Kubuntu 7.04, and turns your computer into the world’s most complete media center. “The traditional PC user interface […]

Weekly News #52

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-08-16

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 52 for the week August 5th – August 11th, 2007 is now available. In this issue we cover the release of Tribe 4, promoting Ubuntu through the use of viral videos, progress of the US LoCo Teams Project, security breaches in community hosted servers, and much much more. Tribe 4 […]

Learning the Open Source Way

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-08-15

At the beginning of July, the FLOSSCom team and Ubuntu Education launched the “Learning the Open Source Way” project. They want to advance their collective understanding on how learning, communication and collaboration works in open source and how these experiences can help to improve (formal) education. You are invited to join this group of interested […]

Got Case Badges?

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-08-14

Martin Owens from the Massachusetts LoCo team is spearheading an effort to pool LoCo resources to make a mass purchase of aluminum “Powered by Ubuntu” case badges. The wiki page has mockups, cost quotes, and current orders so if you or your LoCo are interested in getting a batch of good quality case badges check […]