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First Ubuntu UK Geeknic a Success

By popey | Published: August 8, 2010
Today saw the first Ubuntu-UK LoCo “geeknic” and in my opinion it was a great success. Around 20 people turned up to enjoy fun, food and chat in Hyde Park in London, UK and stayed for about 4 hours. The event was co-organised by Joe O’Dell and Isabell Long and was discussed at multiple UK [...]
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Change for Change’s Sake?

By popey | Published: July 27, 2010
Tony Whitmore (@tonywhitmore) blogged about The Quest for Originality which got me thinking about the podcast that we make with @ciemon, @daviey and @lauracowen. Over the weekend at OrgCon there was some discussion of originality. The subject was brought up when talking about the creative business, with original works being “worth” something, perhaps more than [...]
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Ubuntu at Non-Technical Events

By popey | Published: July 19, 2010
We seem to be quite good at turning up to technical events such as LUG meetings, technical conferences and other self-organised events and telling everyone how great Ubuntu is. However we seem to spend a lot of time preaching to the converted, speaking to people who already run Ubuntu or some other distro, rather than [...]
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Ubuntu Developer Summit Audio Recordings

By popey | Published: May 18, 2010
The crew at UDS have put the audio recordings from the sessions on-line. http://uds.ubuntu.com/audio/uds-m has the audio files in Ogg Vorbis format for download. There are separate sub-directories for each day from Monday through Friday, and the files are timestamped and named based on the rooms that sessions happened in. To see the list of [...]
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Ubuntu Developer Summit Keynote – Unity

By popey | Published: May 10, 2010
Mark Shuttleworth just gave his keynote speech at the Ubuntu Developer Summit. In it he talks about Ubuntu Light – the version of Ubuntu provided to OEMs which boots to the web in 7 seconds. With a new launcher and no file management, a fast-starting panel, ‘Unity’ is available in a ppa now. Here’s the [...]
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