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Some of the intro pictures (including the cake) are from the Quebec City Ubuntu 8.10 Release Party. Lots of pictures of release parties can be found Flickr. Audio files are coming soon. Show Notes:
- Jaunty Jackalope Alpha 1 has been released
- Obviously don't run on production machines
- Meant for developers or anyone who wants to help find bugs
- Ubuntu US shop is open for business
- Had a "soft" opening before, but now its official
- Ubuntu Hall of Fame
- The community is huge, lots of people doing great work, which is verifiable by stats
- but the stats are all over the place
- HoF brings it into nicely readable page and provides links to how to get involved in different parts of the community
- Top contributors for:
- 5-A-Day (confirming bugs, linking to upstream bugs, reviewing patches)
- answering questions on LP
- translators
- Latest approved Ubuntu members and MOTU
- Also a featured contributor section, a blurb about them, and letting people "thank" the contributor
- The community is huge, lots of people doing great work, which is verifiable by stats
- New theme on help.ubuntu.com
- Pretty snazzy and clean
- Gone away from the wiki look
- Lots of LoCos had 8.10 release parties
- Iranian Team, Irish Team
- Colombian Team will hold an UbuCon on Nov. 29th
- Zimbabwe had its first release party
- Peruvian Team was involved in a free software conference
- Linux Identity Magazine will cover Ubuntu 8.10
- Each edition is devoted to something very specific, like Fedora 9, OO.o 3.0, FreeBSD, Debian
- Their next edition is all about Ubuntu 8.10 (Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Mythbuntu)
- Included DVDs
- Describes how to install, upgrade, personalize
- Canonical will be porting Ubuntu onto the ARM architecture
- Not sure about pronunciation, used to stand for Advanced Risc Machine
- ARM processors used widely on mobile devices and getting into netbooks
- Devices should be available in April 2009
- Aaron Seigo - one of KDE's main developers is doing is on podcast on UStream
- Last one was about KDE 4.2, plasmoids, etc.
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[...] Some things we covered this episode: [...]
When I was teaching you really get a respect for the fact that people absorb information in very different ways. I love podcasts as I really learn well through video, other people obviously have to see it written down for it to make sense, others have to be doing it while its being taught…having things like this podcast is fantastic because those who learn best through audio/video really have a place to go.
Ive been a casual ubuntu user for a year or so now and am starting to want to contribute back, but like you say it is confusing. Launchpad is brilliant once you get your head round it, the scale did boggle me a bit at first. Still though things like IRC & how to submit changes still are a bit beyond me (I missed the IRC days and landed purely in the world of IM so I’m ignorant to those simpler times!), I’m happy to keep learning though so thats fine but for harnessing the power of newbies it may not be the best that these things are so obtuse.
Great work though guys, this is definately part of my weekly watching now
Thanks for the feedback guys !
Enjoy the show. Found out about it in the Ubuntu Weekly News. An Ubuntu user for 2 years, currently on 8.04, very sweet. I prefer doing clean installs and at the moment to lazy to move to 8.10.
Well done for enhancing the Ubuntu Experience.
Why FLASH , what’s wrong with OGG ?
@sivan,
Obviously there is nothing wrong with ogg, but Flash is widely used and available on all platforms. Part of the reason we do this podcast is to show all users that Ubuntu is accessible (thats why we have an iTunes feed as well).
The video files are encoded in xvid or h. 264.
Hey Guys, love the show! I watch it on Miro whenever it comes out. You talked about the idea to show the desktop in this ep. and I was wondering if in addition to this, you could put websites, etc. on the screen in text instead of just in the show notes, as people like me (on miro, itunes, watching on an ipod…) could see spelling and the such.
Again, love the show
Where Can I Get Ubuntu Stickers For PC? I Just Built A New One And Im Going To Put A Big FAT Ubuntu Sticker On It
Dennis, if you email me your address I’ll send you some stuff for your new mah-chine. If you want more you can order from http://ubuntu.com. Email me
josh [at] linuxcrypt (dot) net and I’ll hook you up!
Liking the podcasts guys, keep ‘em coming! I look forward to sound quality and recording environment improving as you guys refine your setup.
btw this isn’t a huge deal-breaker or anything, but honestly it irks me a bit to hear Ubuntu pronounced as oo-bun-too or you-bun-too (middle syllable sounding like a piece of bread), since it’s pretty established that the correct pronunciation is oo-boohn-too (with a short middle syllable).
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