
I’m very excited to announce that Ubuntu has applied as participating organisation in the Google Summer of Code 2010!
We submitted an organisational application, along with suggested ideas for potential projects for students. We also encourage students to come up with their own ideas.
If you’re a student interested in Open Source (or if you know students who are), now is the time to act to get involved in Google’s wonderful Summer of Code program.
Scottie posted an entry earlier about the new Ubuntu branding. I’ve been meaning to make a very similar post, but I’ve had lots more important things to do the last two weeks.
Scottie posted an entry earlier about the new Ubuntu branding. I’ve been meaning to make a very similar post, but I’ve had lots more important things to do the last two weeks.
Scottie posted an entry earlier about the new Ubuntu branding. I’ve been meaning to make a very similar post, but I’ve had lots more important things to do the last two weeks.
One week away from the first Ubuntu 10.04 Beta release, the archive is now in hard freeze for preparation of that Beta.
During the freeze, all uploads to main must be approved by a member of the
release team, so if you have fixes which are important to get in, please get in touch as soon as possible (and preferably, get your packages uploaded in parallel!). Uploads to universe require a manual push through the queue, but are not subject to release management approval.
I've decided my old homepage was bad enough to revisit now that I've got a bit more content hosted deep within it. I replaced my crappy hand written HTML with tools written this decade, and threw in some amateur visual design.
The software
Firstly, in order to keep the webpage fresh with little effort, I've chosen RSS aggregation as the method of content generation. Since I know Ubuntu and Debian both use Planet, that's where I first looked.
Did you ever have to deal with source packages and found the variety of patch systems simply mind-boggling? I certainly have.
Enter: the unstoppable Michael Vogt.
For those unfamiliar with the title of this blog post, let me introduce you to one of the most important tags in Launchpad: regression-potential.
What bugs tagged as regression-potential mean? Basically, they mean that a regression has been found in the development release of Ubuntu (Lucid Lynx, at the moment of writing).
I’ve finally soldered on the LEDs for the Cylon DorkShield I designed and got built in a recent DorkBotPDX PCB run. I’m having trouble with the programmer, but I got the shield mostly working: