A couple weeks ago I wrote my blog post On the Ubuntu Community. It was an unusual move for me, as I’ve tended to steer clear of making public comments in major community discussions like this in the past. This time felt different to me. I think it was the timing and speed of surprising […]
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You can help the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter!
March 15th, 2013 by pleia2
Back in January, the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter celebrated the 300th Issue! While an exceptional milestone for the team, we’re forever conscious that we have a very small volunteer staff to keep it running, and we always need more volunteers to help us out. What do we need help with? Summary writers. Summary writers receive an […]
LoCo Team Portal Improvements Released
March 14th, 2013 by pleia2
Several weeks ago, Adnane Belmadiaf (daker) found me on IRC and gave me this exciting link: https://launchpad.net/loco-team-portal/+milestone/0.3.11 47 LoCo Team Portal bugs with fixes committed. He let me know that the new version would be coming out soon and gave me a sneak peek at the new layout. Soon came on March 11th when 0.4.0 […]
On the Ubuntu Community
March 6th, 2013 by pleia2
Charles Profitt, in his recent post Ubuntu: Time to Take the Shot, talks about a meeting that the Community Council had with Mark on Tuesday. This followed a weekend of me doing everything in my power to step back from the recent announcements and discussions from Canonical that made my Thursday and Friday very difficult. […]
Ubuntu at SCaLE11x
March 1st, 2013 by pleia2
This year marked the 3rd Southern California Linux Expo I’ve attended, and once again it didn’t disappoint. The first year I gave a talk at the Ubucon and helped with the booth over the weekend, last year I gave a talk at Ubucon, one at the conference itself and then ran the Ubuntu booth, an […]
All 100 Edubuntu computers in Ghana have been deployed!
January 20th, 2013 by pleia2
Back in October I spent 2 weeks in Ghana helping a team begin a deployment of 100 desktops shipped to Africa ICT Right in Ghana by Computer Reach based out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Unfortunately due to a series of unforeseen events, we weren’t able to see the deployment of all 100 systems to completion. While […]
Beautiful Pangolin!
December 24th, 2012 by pleia2
I know it’s past pangolin season, but we still have plenty of LTS users out there! While at the San Diego Zoo following LISA ’12 we were able to meet their pangolin. I got a few photos with my little digital camera: 4 photos above licensed CC BY 2.0 But my fiancé was able to […]
Restarting the Ubuntu Learning project
December 16th, 2012 by pleia2
For the past several months I’ve been quietly working with a few folks to get things going again with the Ubuntu Learning project. This morning I sent a version of the following to the ubuntu-learning mailing list: The Ubuntu Learning project has been quiet for some time, but we’re hopeful that there are a lot […]
Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 295 released!
December 11th, 2012 by pleia2
Yesterday the Ubuntu News team released the 295th issue of Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter! Over on Google+ this caused Michael Hall and Alan Pope to muse about just how long Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter had been around for. So, when was the first issue? Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter – Issue #1 for the week of May 28 2006 […]
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Ubuntu Necklaces now available! $10 of each purchase supports Ubuntu in schools
November 13th, 2012 by pleia2
Almost a year and a half ago, in June of 2011, I wrote about Ubuntu Earrings being sold by Boutique Academia in Gold plated and Rhodium plated (silver color, but doesn’t tarnish). They were so popular that they have sold out of them, but have more on order. But not everyone wanted earrings! This week […]