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…

Weekly News #46

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-06-27

Issue #46 for the week June 17th – June 23rd, 2007 is now available. In this issue we cover Dell’s live thread about Ubuntu, Jordan Mantha joining the Ubuntu Core Team, planned features for Gutsy, the release of Launchpad 1.1.6 and much more.

  • Want to know more about Ubuntu on Dell?
  • Jordan Mantha Joins Ubuntu Core Team
  • Gutsy Goals Released
  • Release of Launchpad 1.1.6
  • In the Press & In the Blogosphere
  • Upcoming Meetings
  • Bug information
  • Security and updates information

If you have a story idea for the Weekly News please submit it via email or on the wiki !

UWN is brought to you by the Marketing Team.

Ubuntu Hug Day

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-06-24

It is time for our next Hug Day on Wednesday, June 27th. Our theme for this Hug Day will be server bugs and in this end, we will joined by Soren Hansen and Rick Clark from the Ubuntu Server Team. The focus will be the packages samba, php5, openssh, mysql, apache2, postfix, and openldap2.3.

Just like the last Hug Day the event will be held in #ubuntu-devel on the Freenode network. More information is on the Bug Day wiki page.

The list of specific bugs will be finalized shortly before the start of the 27th to ensure that all the bugs on it still need attention. Our goal is to deal with all of the bugs on the list.

Hug Day is a great day to join the Ubuntu QA team.

If you’re interested in helping, please stop by. And feel free to ask shawarma, dendrobates, bdmurray, heno the rest of the team for ways to help out. Hope to see you there and your name on the list of bug huggers!

So on 27 June 2007, come join us.