Expanding the Ranks

The Ubuntu Community Council has voted to add three new members to the Americas Membership Regional Board.

I would like to welcome Nick Ali, Greg Grossmeier, Martin Albisetti to the team. All three are well known and respected in the Ubuntu community and I look forward working with them in the coming months.

Congrats to all!

Posted on June 15, 2009 at 11:47 am by Mike · Permalink · One Comment
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The Language of Love

Jorge Castro pointed this thread out to me, and it is the most awesome thread I have seen on the forums in a while. Please add any translations you can offer to the thread.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1159085

Peace baby \/

Posted on May 14, 2009 at 1:13 pm by Mike · Permalink · One Comment
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Ubuntu Utah Jaunty Release Party

The Ubuntu Utah Loco team invites everyone to Gourmandie’s Bakery on 3rd South 3rd East, Salt Lake City, UT, USA from 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM on April 25th for the Ubuntu 9.04 release party. We will have free wifi and Gourmandie has killer deserts.

See you there!!!

Posted on April 22, 2009 at 9:21 pm by Mike · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Forums Council Meeting Monday (April 20th at 20:00 UTC)

We are having Ubuntu Forums Council meeting today (Monday, April 20th at 20:00 UTC) and welcome people to stop by and join in the discussion.

Posted on April 20, 2009 at 8:37 am by Mike · Permalink · Comments Closed
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10 things you did not know about Karmic Koalas

10 things you did not know about Karmic Koalas (or maybe you did)

  1. They originate from Barcelona, Spain.
  2. You can help create this wonderful creature from 25-29 May 2009 (http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS)
  3. They will be available worldwide in October 2009, consider adopting one.
  4. They may not be brown.
  5. They are crafty hackers, since it is a unknown fact that bamboo make great cantennas.
  6. They can make servers dance in the clouds.
  7. A Karmic Koala is amazing looking, even when it first starts up.
  8. They are one of the worlds fasts booting animals, much faster than the Chummy Cheetah.
  9. Community, they like saying community more than Jono Bacon. Community Community.
  10. Under their fur is another fist (of open source goodness).
Posted on February 20, 2009 at 11:11 am by Mike · Permalink · 5 Comments
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Free Ubuntu Pocket Guide

Keir Thomas, author of Ubuntu Kung Fu, has release a free pocket guide to Ubuntu. This 170 page great beginners guide to installing and using Ubuntu.

This guide can be found at http://www.ubuntupocketguide.com/.

Digg It

Posted on January 27, 2009 at 9:53 am by Mike · Permalink · 2 Comments
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Installing Adobe Air 1.5 on Ubuntu 8.10 X86_64

Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) 1.5 was released last December. While not a 64 bit app yet, it is very easy to get the AIR 1.5 working on Ubuntu 8.10 AMD64 version.

1. Install needed libraries
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

2. Download the installer
wget -c http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/1.5/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

3. Install AIR
./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
(note may need to chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin)

4. Copy extra Adobe library file
sudo cp /usr/lib/libadobecertstore.so /usr/lib32

5. Install AIR apps via web.

Discuss here

Posted on January 26, 2009 at 3:58 pm by Mike · Permalink · 3 Comments
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Ubuntu Utah

Ubuntu Utah

Posted on January 12, 2009 at 2:13 pm by Mike · Permalink · 3 Comments
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Wordpress 2.7

Made the leap to Wordpress 2.7. Went smooth, let me know if you see any problem.

Posted on December 11, 2008 at 12:52 pm by Mike · Permalink · 4 Comments
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UDS-Jaunty: Join the Fun

The Ubuntu Developer Summit for Jaunty Jackalope is starting today (Dec 8, 2008) and going though Friday (Dec 12, 2008) at the Google Campus in Mountain View, CA. UDS is where Developers and the community get together and discuss the planned feature and improvements for the next version of Ubuntu Linux.

We have created many ways to follow the happens at the summit and to contribute comments and ideas to people at the summit.

1. The Scoop: The Ubuntu Wiki is the main source for the happen happens at the summit (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS). Any news and changes will be posted there.

2. Schedule: The schedule for the summit can be found at http://summit.ubuntu.com. On the schedule you will be able to find links to the live audio/video streams from the conference and how to VoIP into the discussions.

3. Audio Live Stream : Listen to the live audio stream of the tracks at http://icecast.ubuntu.com/.

4. Micro-blogging: You can follow the feeds of the different tracks and people at UDS (http://whoisi.com/e/uds-jaunty). Or you can follow http://identi.ca/ubuntudevelopers RSS Feed.

5. IRC: Join the channel #ubuntu-devel-summit or #uds on the Freenode IRC network (chat.freenode.net).

6. The Planet: Planet Ubuntu (http://planet.ubuntu.com) aggregates feeds of Ubuntu Member. The Planet will have a ton of information on UDS and plans for Jaunty.

7. Forums: People from the summit will be following thread in the Jaunty Jackalope Testing and Discussion forum. Use the tag of UDS in the forums if you make a thread about the summit.

Please join in the fun, and help make Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope Rock!!!

Posted on December 8, 2008 at 9:32 am by Mike · Permalink · 7 Comments
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