UDS: Last Day, Now the Hard Part
Today is the last day of the Ubuntu Developers Summit 2009 for Karmic Koala, I’ve seen some pretty amazing things, boot speeds, data integration, netbook software. It’s all still to come. So now we...
View ArticleUbuntu: Apt-Url and the White-List
Today I’m going to talk a little bit about one of the sessions at the Ubuntu Developers Summit, it was a session about AptURL Policy when dealing with Debian repository links and how best to add them....
View ArticleGround Control Plans (UDS)
One of the things I hope to talk about at UDS is ground control and it’s development focus, these are the current things on the table that are outside of bugs in existing features: * Create Project /...
View ArticleWant to go to UDS Narwhal?
UDS is only a month and a half away and there was again a very tight selection for places for Canonical to sponsor us community folk. I’m interested in finding people who didn’t get sponsored this time...
View ArticleAlternative UDS Accommodation
After some research and discussion we’ve put together a plan to get much cheaper, closer and nicer accommodation for everyone who wants to come to UDS. the price is about ~$350 for the whole 6 days for...
View ArticleUDS Narwhal – Monday
Keynote Mark Shuttleworth kicked off this week’s UDS with a couple of interesting messages. First was the focus on quality now that we’ve got a fair way through both the cadence and design pushes which...
View ArticleUDS Narwhal – Tuesday
Date/Time and Calendar for App-Indicators One of the barriers to getting Unity as the default interface for the Ubuntu desktop is the deficient clock applet. In order to fix the issues there will be a...
View ArticleUDS Narwhal – Wednesday
Community Canonical Relations The community wanted to make sure Canonical is doing the right thing and communicating with everyone in best place places and the best ways. So we had a heavy discussion...
View ArticleUDS-N Poll: Why are you working on Ubuntu?
One of my goals of UDS was to do a little survey on the floor to get a feel for why participants were contributing to Ubuntu and how they see the reason for doing all this work. I set out a simple 5...
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