Author Archives: pleia2

User Days January 29-30 Schedule

By pleia2 | Published: 2011-01-24

On the weekend of January 29-30th we will be hosting our 3rd Ubuntu User Days event in #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net (#ubuntu-classroom-chat for questions). All times in the timetable are in UTC, click the time to find out your local time. Saturday, January 29th Time (UTC) Subject Presenter 08:30 Introduction to User Day nigelb, pleia2, nhandler […]

Free Culture Showcase

By pleia2 | Published: 2011-01-22

For the 11.04 Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase we (the attendees at the UDS session) thought it would be really good to set a theme. The decision was made in order to encourage people to create content with wider artistic merit. The Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase is designed to help all of us show off the […]

Edubuntu Council Updates

By pleia2 | Published: 2011-01-04

As voted by the Edubuntu Members, Marc Gariépy joins the Edubuntu Council to serve for the next term of 2 years. Jordan Ericksson and Richard Johnson has stepped down from the Council due to other commitments. We thank them for their role in Edubuntu so far and hope that they will continue to be involved […]

Natty Alpha 1 Released

By pleia2 | Published: 2010-12-02

defn Spy Hopping: “A form of cetacean behavior that consists of rising vertically out of the water, head first, and scanning the entire surrounding area while rotating.” (Source: Dor) Natty Narwhal is doing a first bit of Spy Hopping, also known as Alpha 1, which will in time become Ubuntu 11.04. Pre-releases of Natty are […]

Natty Translations Plans I: Translations Stories

By pleia2 | Published: 2010-11-30

One of the projects we’re working on the translations community this cycle are Translations Stories. We’d like to show how translations change people’s lives for the best, and how the work of translators has an impact on that. We’d like to share our excitement and highlight the awesome work translators do, and we thought that […]