Weekly News: Issue #47

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-07-09

Issue #47 for the week June 24th – July 7th, 2007 is now available. This issue features two weeks of news packed into one great issue. Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 has passed the second alpha release, and is starting to look like we’re going to have another amazing release. We have quiet some new members and LoCo teams joining us, an ambitious set of features announced for the next Launchpad milestones, and the security updates and bug stats you all have learned to love.

  • New MOTUs
  • Welcome our newly approved members
  • Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 2 Released
  • Newly Approved LoCos
  • New Launchpad Features in development
  • Ubuntu in the News and Blogs
  • Meetings and Events
  • Security Updates

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Edubuntu in the news!

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-07-05

Edubuntu at Technology In Education Conference
The Colorado Local Community Team manned a Canonical/Ubuntu booth at the Technology in Education Conference in Copper Mountain. The general consensus was that the Ubuntu session turned out to be “the cool session” amongst all of the conference attendees for that day, nearly one thousand classroom teachers, administrators and technology enthusiasts from around Colorado and surrounding states. Edubuntu was the main focus and was run on an HP server in a thin-client configuration.
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Do You Edubuntu?
Jeff Hastings test drives the open source suite
School Library Journal, 7/1/2007

Edubuntu, the Linux-based operating system and open-source educational software suite, is so startlingly good in so many ways that it’s difficult to know where to begin. So let’s start here: it’s free. That’s right, you can download Edubuntu from the Web site or request a copy or two on CD and they’ll ship it. All the way from Belgium. Free!

Full article.

French community growing!

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-07-05

We received some exciting news from the French speaking Ubuntu community today.

Our forum reached its 1 000 000th post today! This is incredible news, which we would never have expected when we started the Ubuntu-fr locoteam 2 1/2 years ago. The French speaking community is growing, more and more people are getting involved every day…. Over 50 000 unique visitors are reading our forum daily now!

Congratulations to the Ubuntu-fr team on reaching this milestone! You can visit their site and become involved in the French speaking community by visiting ubuntu-fr.org.

Kubuntu at Akademy 2007

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-07-04

Akademy 2007, the KDE World Summit, is happening now in Glasgow. The week long event is being sponsored by Kubuntu thanks to Canonical. Mark Shuttleworth gave one of the keynote speeches talking about challenges to the free software desktop and provoked a debate among KDE developers by suggesting they adopt a fixed release schedule. Kubuntu developer Jonathan Riddell also gave a talk on the upcoming features in the Gutsy release. Videos (and slides for other talks) are available on the programme web page.

The week continues with BoFs, hacking and a day trip to Loch Lomond. The Photos page gives you a feel of the excitement. Needless to say the machines in the hacklab and the 50 node Icecream distributed compiling cluster are all running Kubuntu.

Full Circle Issue #2 released

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-06-30

Full Circle – the Ubuntu Community Magazine is proud to announce the release of issue #2, which contains:

  • Kubuntu installation step-by-step
  • How-To : Install Ubuntu on Intel Mac Mini, Virtual Private Networking, Learning Scribus part 2 and Ubuntu for your Grandma!
  • Review of System76 Darter Laptop
  • Interview with GRAMPS developer
  • Letters, Q&A, MyDesktop, MyPC, Top5 and more!

Get it while it’s hot!

English language only at the moment, translations on the way…