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- We have a logo!
- Ubucon! - Setting up to do one in November
- Checked out a location over the weekend, lots of space
- Should know soon if we can lock it up
- Florida team will be joining us
- Ubuntu Eee SD Cards available
- $50
- 4GB SD card
- Nothing to install
- Just select to boot from SD card
- New community driven QA team: For quite a while Canonical has largely driven QA efforts in Ubuntu, and the community can and should step up in this area. On a high level, the Ubuntu QA team is about coordination and developments, focused on developing tools, policies, and practices for ensuring Ubuntu’s quality as a distribution as well as providing general advice, oversight, and leadership of QA activities within the Ubuntu project.
- To get involved, join the Bug Squad. Members:
- assign bugs to packages
- ensure that bug reports are complete
- find duplicate bug reports
- recreate bugs and forward bugs to their upstream authors.
- All of these activities help the bug get fixed and subsequently making Ubuntu even better.
- Also, join the Testing Team:
- Structured testing of packages and ISO images.
- Aim to detect as many bugs and issues as possible before CDs are released to the general public.
- To get involved, join the Bug Squad. Members:
- Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex Alpha 3 coming
- Expected to be released Thursday, July 24th.
- Ubuntu Massachusetts LoCo
- Fourth "Exploration Ubuntu" event to demonstrate what this easy-to-use Linux system has to offer.
- Saturday August 2nd at the MIT Media Lab
- Configuring Linux Terminal to work as a transparent wallpaper:
- Uses devilspie is a non-gui utility that lets you make applications start in specified workplaces, in specified sizes and placements, minimized or maximized and much more based on simple config files.
- Installing new fonts easily
- Dell is upgrading Ubuntu machines to ship with 8.04 LTS.
- Wonder if they will release 8.04 ISO like they had for 7.10.
- Dell does have its own PPA (Personal Package Archive) on Launchpad and it does get added to package source lists if you buy an Ubuntu Dell machine.
- Intel Snubs Microsoft, offers Linux certification: Intel's enthusiasm for open source is gathering speed: now it is endorsing professional Linux certifications, snubbing the old Microsoft certification program.
- Attendees at the Intel Developer Forum get discounts for taking open source exams from Linux Professional Institute.
- No such deal for Microsoft certifications.
- At one of last years Intel Developer Forum, Intel embraced Linux, instead of Microsoft, for its mobile Internet devices
- At another Intel Developer Forum last year, Mark Shuttleworth gave one of the keynote speeches.
- Intel sponsors the Moblin project for developing a standardised open source platform for MID products:
- Ubuntu provides two builds for it: Ubuntu Mobile Internet Device Edition for MIDs and Ubuntu Netbook Remix for mini-notes.
- 10 + 2 things you’ll get with Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex”
- This is just a certain bloggers thoughts.
- These come from blueprints on Launchpad, so there is no guarantee that these features will be implemented in the final version.
- 1. faster login
- 2. better Flash experience Intrepid will ship improved plugin finder wizard experience, better experience for sites that use the flash detection kit and improved user- experience for selection of available alternatives.
- 3. 3G networking Title says it all, Intrepid will have built-in support for 3G networking with the new NetworkManager.
- 4. guest account It is very common to lend someone else a laptop for a quick email check, or having one’s computer play music and be a surf station on a party.
- 6. Automatic download of printer drivers through the internet The printer setup tool of Ubuntu 8.10 and later will automatically download LSB-packaged printer drivers from the OpenPrinting database.
- 7. font selector Fontconfig offers a variety of font related settings, which can currently only be modified by hacking a XML file together. Intrepid will have a GUI for this task, taking common settings like font ordering, antialiasing, hinting and embedded bitmaps into account, as those settings vary greatly depending on different users’ preferences.
- 9. installation from USB stick An application will be developed to convert and write Ubuntu CD images to USB disks. In addition, Ubuntu’s existing tools will be modified to better handle installing from a removable disk.
- Linus is a P.I.M.P - Linus calls the OpenBSD crowd a bunch of masturbating monkeys.
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Keep up the good work! Listening from Greece 
johnc4510
Get job guys! Keep up the good work.
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