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We’re back! That’s us: Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, Laura Cowen, and (not forgetting) The Podcats. We’re here in Studio A for the first episode of Season (Series) Six of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team! In this
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week’s show:-
We take a look at what’s been happening in the News:
Why we should stop using open source licences…
Ubuntu: Now on phones and tablets…
Challenge to Python trademark application…
Opera browser switches to WebKit…
We catch up with what’s happening in the Community:
A new Totem (Movie Player) UI was proposed but has since disappeared from the Web…
Ubuntu Developer Summits will now be every 3 months and virtual…
Daily builds and updates to phablet-tools…
And we mention some events:
Hack ‘n’ talk – Google Campus, London, UK – 9th March
Open Source Junction – Open Source Hardware meets Open Source Software – Trinity College, Oxford, UK – 14th-15th March
North East Linux Fest – Harvard University, US – 16th-17th March
Please send your comments and suggestions to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org
Join us on IRC in #ubuntu-uk-podcast on Freenode
Leave a voicemail via phone: +44 (0) 203 298 1600, sip: podcast@sip.ubuntu-uk.org and skype: ubuntuukpodcast
Follow our twitter feed http://twitter.com/uupc
Find our Facebook Fan Page
Follow us on Google Plus
Leave us some segment ideas on the Etherpad
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3 months
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The ubuntforums are currently being updated, so we’re going down for a few hours. DON’T PANIC
We anticipate anything up to 10 hours downtime, though we hope to be back a lot sooner. The moderation team will be available during the day here to provide updates. You can access other support options here
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3 months
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You may know one of the most used resources for support in the Ubuntu Community is AskUbuntu.com. But there is a big problem with the system: it is only in English. So many people end up wondering where can they get support in their local language
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, as their English level is not that good, or do not even understand it, or maybe they want to get support on their language. They go to their Local Community teams, and maybe Launchpad, but we all feel this is not enough.
In an effort to give a solution to this problem, which we discussed last UDS during the Leadership Summit, I got assigned the work item to investigate and work on localizing the Question and Answer (Q&A) systems. As I mentioned before, we are using Ask Ubuntu! as the current Q&A system, and is only available on English, and if anyone asks a question in other language it gets translated. But we want to have a system that can be used in various languages for people to get support in their native language, with no hesitations. This will be a way to improve the quality of the support given at the moment, and also get to a broader scope when we are talking about outreach. Ubuntu is available in many different languages, so why not also offer support in those languages?
So this is where you come in. I have been investigating on various Q&A systems, but would like to hear from all of your suggestions on which systems can be used for this specific project. That is why I have created the QandALocalization wiki page for you to add all your ideas on the project. We really need your help on this issue, as I would like to have many systems to compare, and finally decide on which one we should be using, so I do not regret about choosing the wrong system.
I would like to mention some requirements for the systems, remember they should have most of them (if not all!):
Free and Open Source Software
Easily translatable, even better if it can be done with Launchpad
Integration with Single Sign-On systems, as we would use the Ubuntu SSO for logins
Points or trophies system
Obviously, a nice design that looks professional, and can be tweaked to get an Ubuntu theme
It would be great if it is already translated in some languages</li
If the system you are thinking of meets those requirements, it is certainly something we are looking forward to analyze. In the future we will need the help from developers, translators and designers, so we can create a platform that can be stable and fulfills all of our requirements. I will also make sure to provide constant updates on how the project is going. I am really excited to start this, and expect a great outcome from it.
If you have any suggestions or want to chat about the project, you can go to the #ubuntu-q+a channel on irc.freenode.net (click here to join using webchat) and ping me (JoseeAntonioR), or you can also send me an email to joseeantonior AT ubuntu DOT com, I will be happy to answer all your enquiries and listen to all of your feedback.
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3 months
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After some consideration of both recent and historical decisions by Canonical in regards to the Ubuntu project and distribution, the lack of any noticeable dissension by the community leadership, I’ll be deleting my Launchpad account, along with
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all memberships to Ubuntu groups, this Saturday, March 2nd. The date represents the six year anniversary of my creating the account, so it seems somehow appropriate to delete it on this day. Additionally, this will give me a few days to [hopefully] make sure that I’m out of my commitments cleanly and things are turned over to the new Ubuntu Maryland contact properly. If you know of something that is needed to do before this date, please contact me.
Ron Swift is planning to have a local bug jam event this Saturday. Please RSVP to him if you are interested in participating. [Less]
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3 months
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Have you planned your Jam event for this March 1, 2, 3? There's still time. Here's the link to register. It only takes a moment. http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/add/?global_event_id=2221 You can register an in-person event or an
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online event. If you're Jamming online, why not try a Hangout as a good way to prepare for the upcoming UDS?
Thanks and let's get Jamming!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=NHMUChmqJxE#t=3... [Less]
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3 months
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Within the Ubuntu realm there have been some dramatic changes that have erupted at the end of February 2013. The first shift was that the Ubuntu Developer Summit has shifted to an electronic-only format with the first one in the new style set to
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launch within a week of announcement. The second shift was the announcement that rolling releases are under formal consideration with that release paradigm change being under consideration at the hastily-announced event.
Where is the Ubuntu realm going? If you have the answer to that, you are among a select few. For the various flavors such as Xubuntu, Kubuntu, and Lubuntu this is perhaps a systemic shock as the main flavor is now making fairly radical changes that may or may not fit with the goals of the flavor projects. The main line of Ubuntu is seeking convergence where it dominates the desktop, the tablet, and the phone. Rolling releases will presumably be needed to keep up with the fast-paced phone realm.
This is a bit of a change. Is the desktop where the future of computing is headed? Is the desktop going away in favor of pocket computers that somewhere inside still have a tiny amount of circuitry that results in them being called "phones"? That much is uncertain. The gamble being made by Canonical as it adds yet another mobile operating system to an already crowded space is that that is where things are headed. As noted by Anna Leach on The Register earlier in February, total planet-wide sales of cellular phones declined 1.7% last year. Half of all cellular phones on the planet sold in 2012 were made by one of the following three manufacturers/design bureaus: Apple, Samsung, Nokia.
Right now there is a bit of a rupture as to where Ubuntu and its flavors are progressing. That is unfortunate. There remains quite a bit of uncertainty in the market and no clear breakthrough leads yet that are truly destroying one segment of the market for another. The desktop is not dead and the cell phone seems mature/stagnant in terms of innovation at the moment.
Between the UDS changes and the rolling releases proposal, we are effectively rolling the dice. As a user of Xubuntu on a BeagleBoard-xM, I have to watch the development of the rolling release proposal very carefully to see if I am not left behind as Personal Package Archives (PPAs) do not build for ARM architecture routinely. My board is already considered unsupported but I would still like some flavor of Ubuntu, preferably Xubuntu, to still be able to boot on it. Indicators currently are not pointing towards that but towards a major drive now to get Ubuntu Phone ready and live as soon as possible.
Let us all hope that this roll of the dice is the right one.
Paradigm Shifting Without A Clutch by Stephen Michael Kellat is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
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The Kubuntu Council terms for David Wonderly, Harald Sitter, and Jonathan Thomas expire on 2013-05-20. This is a call for nominations for the Kubuntu Council to elect three members. The term will be for two years, 2013-05-21 to
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2015-05-20.
As in the past, the election will be conducted using CIVS (Condorcet Internet Voting Service). The top three ranking vote recipients will be elected.
Schedule:
Nomination period: Now to 2013-05-01
Ballot Preparation: 2013-05-01 to 2013-05-04
Voting Period: 2013-05-04 to 2013-05-20
End Poll/Results Announced: 2013-05-20
New Term Begins: 2013-05-21
Eligibility:
All Kubuntu Members are eligible to be nominated and to vote. If you have a public email address in launchpad, you need take no further action to receive your voting ballot. If you do not have a public email address, please contact me offlist with the address you’d like your ballot sent to, otherwise you will be unable to vote.
Nominations:
All Kubuntu Members are eligible. The Kubuntu Council is intended to represent all of the Kubuntu community. Applications from involved non-developers are encouraged. If you are nominating someone else, please confirm their willingness to serve before nominating them. Nominations should be done in public via either kubuntu-users or kubuntu-devel mailing lists. If there is some extraordinary reason that precludes that, contact me directly.
Commitment:
The Kubuntu Council is the leadership body of Kubuntu. Members of the council are expected to be active in Kubuntu. The Kubuntu Council has three primary roles:
- Approve development plans for future Kubuntu releases
- Approve Kubuntu membership applications
- Resolve disputes within the Kubuntu project
The time commitment is not large. Meetings are generally only once every several months and conducted via IRC.
Questions:
If there are questions, you can contact me (preferably) via this mailing list or (if really necessary) via direct mail.
Scott K
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3 months
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Port-a-thon I can’t believe it hasn’t even been a week since we announced the availability of the Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview images. We also put instructions out to contribute to the effort and specifically how to port Ubuntu Touch
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to new devices.
In the recent Ubuntu Development Hangout with some members of the Ubuntu Touch team I mentioned it already: these people are heroes. They’ve worked day and night and it was a pleasure to put the porting guide and Port-a-thon event together with them.
After that it has been very satisfying to be subscribed to the Ubuntu Touch devices list. We started with four devices, on which Ubuntu ran right from the start. The reference devices so to speak. Fast-forward 5-6 days and we have images and instructions for 15 other devices. FIFTEEN!
On this list currently are: Asus Transformer Infinity, Asus Transformer Pad TF300T, Galaxy Nexus (toro + toroplus), Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 Wifi, HTC Desire, HTC DNA, Huawei Ascend G300, Nexus One, Samsung Galaxy Note II, Samsung Galaxy Note, Samsung Galaxy S (GT-I9000), Sony Xperia S, Sony Xperia T, VZ SGSIII.
If your device is on the list and you’re curious, head to the devices list and find out how to get the new Ubuntu Touch hotness straight to your device.
Another 22 ports are work-in-progress with developers or teams of developers working on them.
Update 2013-02-27 17:56 UTC: it’s 23.
Thanks a lot to everyone who helped make this happen. If you’re curious what’s happening, make sure you join the ubuntu-phone mailing list and ubuntu-touch IRC channel. More info on the Contribute page.
JAMS!
Ubuntu Global Jam is coming up this weekend (1-3 March) and if you have a look at the list of events, you can see that from Tempe to Tehran we have events lined up where people get together to make Ubuntu better. With all the excitement around Ubuntu Touch, we added instructions to the Ubuntu Global Jam page on how to help by either testing, porting or writing apps.
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3 months
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Recently Jono Bacon, the Ubuntu community manager, has annouced that UDS-S for Oakland, USA will be cancelled. Instead Ubuntu Developer Summits will be held online every three months, and the first one: Next WEEK. This is quite a
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problem.
1. Tell us earlier!!!! We all are expected to UDS-S in May. Some even booked their flight tickets and hotel vouchers, and now suddenly Canonical is telling us to cancel the reservations…. Give us a pre-notice at least please.
2. What to plan? For example, for the coming UDS in March, it’s in the middle of the Raring release cycle, and FeatureFreeze is already coming up. Of course some might say that Canonical is trying to get rid of non-LTS releases. I do think so.
3. Timezone. I’m at UTC+8, and planned UDS sessions will start at 16:00 UTC. That’s basically midnight for me.
4. Friendship. People tend to get close in UDS. Will this ever happen online?
5. Length. Two days wasn’t actually enough, considering the length of past UDS summits.
6. Away from community. One of the Ubuntu Studio developers thought it would be an act to move away from the *community* which means contributors mot getting along together.
7. Budget. Is Canonical really want to save up budget to develop that they don’t want to sponsor people anymore?
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3 months
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by
nore...@blogger.com (Dmitrijs Ledkovs)
Are you tired of typing a hostname, username, password and WiFi password every time you flash Nexus7 with Ubuntu Core images? Do you wish to automate those boring steps? Do you wish you could reboot into fastboot mode over ssh
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without reaching and fiddling with volume down and power keys?
Now you can!
$ bzr branch lp:~ubuntu-nexus7/ubuntu-nexus7/preseed
Has a nifty command called
$ ./prepare-preseed
By default it takes preseed.cfg, attempts to copy wifi.cfg or fetch current active WiFi connection settings from Network Manager's /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/* downloads latest bootimg and twiddles it to include all of the above.
After that you can fastboot flash standard user-data image + this cusom bootimg and voila, upon fastboot reboot ubiquity will come up and will automatically answer all the questions for you and boot into desktop with wifi connected.
If you want to customize settings simply edit the sample preseed.cfg.
If you do not want to always type in sudo password to get the network password you can run:
$ ./get-network-info > wifi.cfg
After that each reflash will be a breeze and not require root password. (Note that I uploaded udev rules in fastboot a while a go to allow using fastboot as a non-privileged user, if you need to support more devices please file bugs against android-tools with the output of lsusb when your device is connected).
So what about rebooting back into fastboot mode?
Well, I recently uploaded upstart 1.6.1-1ubuntu3 into Raring that supports:
$ sudo reboot -f bootloader
That will get you back into fastboot mode.
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