Our community is vast, but it is impossible to gauge how broad it is. We cannot tell who uses our software because we don’t force them to inform us, and because F/LOSS is freely and organically dispersible. When I first started using Ubuntu back in the days of Hoary, I was dependant on the various forums. ...

It’s not often you run across a profound presentation.?? This is one of them.???? Ubuntu encompasses both East and West, and all points in between and far outside. One of the comments on the talk: “ What I got out of it was to be empathetic to others and expect them not to understand where you are coming ...

F or the last week the Ubuntu community has been holding the Ubuntu Developer Summit for Lucid Lynx in Dallas, Texas. Sadly, with school and all, I could not attend, although I very much wanted to. For those of you that did attend, did you enjoy it? Did you learn anything new there? What was your favorite ...

I ?? thought that, with Black Friday 2009 coming up, it would be a good time to suggest a couple of sites related to Black Friday. Gottadeal’s Black Friday Site This is a good one, they even have their own forums in place. BFAds This one, from what I can see, also has a community. Engadget also made ...

A while ago I introduced a script lp-project-upload to automate tarball release uploads to Launchpad. Many people asked for further features, two of which I added now: First, it automatically invokes gpg to create a tarball signature (unless one is already present), and second it invokes an editor to ...

The following video was recorded at the Ubuntu Lucid Developer Summit in November 2009. It’s a recording of a one hour session in which the set of applications delivered on the Ubuntu CD is discussed. This has caused some controversy amongst the community, and we are keen to get this video online as ...

I ordered up a Nokia N900 the other day, and I have to say the preorder market for it is strange. Or perhaps, I don't participate in preorders often enough to know that this is common. The price listed in the Nokia Store and press releases is around 650USD. But the retailers seem to be undergoing a ...

Wednesday 18th November 2009 UDS Plenary Session Interview with David Mandella – Ubuntu Mobile Team Lead Interview with Robbie Williamson – Ubuntu Foundations Team Lead Interview with Marjo Mercado – Ubuntu QA Team Lead

Ketil W Aanson wrote an AWESOME post about use cases of Zeitgeist from a non techie point of view PLEASE READ

I’ve unfortunately been stuck in bed the last two days due to the flu. Luckily I’m feeling much better today thanks to lots of dayquil and OJ.