Category: Ubuntu
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Support open source games, donate to 0 A.D.
0 A.D. is an awesome cross-platform game that is fun, has stunning graphics and is completely open source. There’s even a PPA for Ubuntu. It works wonderfully on both my laptops. They are looking for a round of donations to pay for some more development work, and as of this moment they’re $634 USD short.…
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Calling all Ubuntu power users: Upgrade to Ubuntu Precise Pangolin today!
It may of been a bit below the radar, but it was announced that for 12.04 LTS, there would be an improved focus on stability throughout the whole development cycle so more people could use it early on and catch problems with more time to fix them. There’s a specific team dedicated to making this…
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Ubuntu members over time
During the Community Council meeting yesterday we were talking about the general health and excitement levels of the community, and whether we were loosing a lot of members. I had a vague memory of us (Canonical) having an internal graph of number of members on the ~ubuntumember team, and I dug it up to see…
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Community Council
So, it seems my nomination to the Community Council has been accepted \o/ It caught me a bit by surprise, so I’m struggling to add information to my wiki page again (it’s been 4 years since I last touched it!). The current list of nominees is awesome, so I’m very happy that no matter what…
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Ubuntu One Files for Android released!
After a long and interesting journey, today we’ve released Ubuntu One Files for Android. The app started being developed by Michał Karnicki as a Google Summer of Code project, and he did such a fantastic job at it that we hired him on full time and teamed him up Chad Miller to end up releasing…
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Thunderbird will be default in Oneiric (11.10), maybe
A very healthy and civilised session about switching to Thunderbird by default just ended here in the Ubuntu Developer Summit, and the outcome was that if the Thunderbird developers manage to do some needed work (to be defined) by a certain time in our cycle (to be defined), we will ship Oneiric and more importantly,…
Martin Albisetti
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Looking for a CSS/HTML guru to work on Ubuntu One
In the last few months, I’ve been lucky enough to be able to hire some exceptional people that were contributing to Ubuntu One in their free time. Every time someone comes in from the community, filled with excitement about being able to work on their pet project full time my job gets that much better.…
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Ubuntu, Natty and Unity
I have to confess, after I heard I found out we where shipping Unity in Ubuntu by default I was nervous. I got asked many times what my feelings were, and I think I generally dodged the question. This was a pretty risky move, which we are still a few months away from finding out…
Martin Albisetti
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UbuCon 2010 – Argentina edition!
After toying with the idea for a while now, the Argentina LoCo has finally announced that we’ll be hosting UbuCon 2010 in Buenos Aires, on November 19 and 20th of 2010 (yes, in 9 days!). The schedule is up here: http://www.ubucon.org.ar/ (in spanish) If you’re around, and would like to attend, I suggest signing up,…
Martin Albisetti
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Open source is awesome
I am ZOMG very tired from the exciting release for Ubuntu One, but I wanted to highlight a very pleasant surprise. We launched the Ubuntu One Music Streaming a week ago, and yesterday, while hadn’t yet publicly released, we got a patch that adds support to tell last.fm the music you are listing from the…
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