More4 News, a Channel4 associate, interviewed Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth recently. The video of the interview is available at the online news story. Mark talks about philanthropy and technology in the interview, and we get to know that he loves the geek culture 🙂

When you’ve made £400m before your 30th birthday -you’d probably want to spend the rest of your days living the highlife.
But not Mark Shuttleworth who made his fortune when he sold off his internet security company four years ago.
Since then, he has given half of it to charity and bought a £13m pound ticket to space station.
Now he’s working hard to create a free software – which he hopes will rival Microsoft. He has given a rare interview to More 4 News.

Update: Jonathan Riddell tells us: The direct link to the video is mms://longurl… (right-click, copy) which can be downloaded using mimms from universe, then played with the w32codecs and mplayer. …If it doesn’t work out of the box 🙂

[Discuss the video on the forums]

Many Ubuntu users have found out that the wealth of knowledge available on the Ubuntu Forums is almost endless, as it seems there is an answer for almost every question. There are also a lot of forum users who contribute amazing guides to the howto section of the forum.

Until now most of this information hasn’t found its way into the documentation that is made available in Ubuntu systems and on the Ubuntu documentation website.

Now, Matthew East has announced a new team to pull the information from the forums and channel it into the documentation.

This team will provide a vital bridge between the mountain of information on the Ubuntu forums and the official Ubuntu documentation.

To find out more details on the new project, including how to contribute, visit https://help.ubuntu.com/community/forum.

[Discuss this article on the Ubuntu forums]

This Friday (11 Aug.) at 01:00 UTC, Jordan Mantha (aka LaserJock) will be leading a MOTU School session on Ubuntu packaging in #ubuntu-motu-school on Freenode. If you have ever wondered how those .debs are made, this session will be a great opportunity get started. He will introduce concepts noted in the Ubuntu Packaging Guide and will point out resources for learning more about packaging. Everyone is welcome to sit in!

As always, IRC logs of the session will be posted on the Ubuntu wiki soon afterward, so people who are unable to attend can follow the transcripts.

For those of you who like to read ahead (you know who you are), some advance reading will be posted at the Packaging Basics school session wikipage.

Update: Vid Ayer tells us: Jordan Mantha has kindly decided to repeat the session for the benefit of people in European time zones and will hold the session first at 01:00 UTC and a repeat at 17:00 UTC.