Linux World Conference & Expo 2006

On the 25th and 26th October, LinuxWorld London is happening, and it is filled with Ubuntu goodness. Here are some details of what to look forward to:

Ubuntu will have an official stand at the show - do come along and see us. In addition to this, the excellent Ubuntu UK LoCo team will have a stand in the .org village to show off the UK Ubuntu community and the work they are doing. A number of Ubuntu UK members will be there, so be sure to visit them too.

Ubuntu Community Manager, Jono Bacon who has helped organise the booth has also organised an Ubuntu UK meet-up that takes place at the Ubuntu UK stand on Wed 25th Oct at 2.30pm. Everyone is welcome to come along to meet the community, get involved or otherwise hang out.

Jono is also involved in a number of talks and events while at LinuxWorld:

• Wed 25th Oct 2006 11.30am - 11.50am - Talk about Ubuntu on the IBM stand (free to view).
• Wed 25th Oct 2006 12.30pm - 1.30pm - Panelist on The Great Linux Debate about Virtualisation (free to view).
• Thur 26th Oct 2006 - 11.50am - 12.20pm - Talk on Cracking Open The Linux Desktop in the conference (pay to view)
• Thur 26th Oct 2006 - 12.30pm - 1.30pm - Panelist on The Great Linux Debate about the GPL (free to view).

Finally, Ubuntu and Canonical have been nominated for a number of awards at the UK Linux & Open Source Awards, and the winners will be announced on the evening of Wed 25th Oct 2006.

Our friends in the Hungarian Ubuntu community are hosting the Hungarian Ubuntu Conference (Magyarországi Ubuntu Konferencia) on 28 October 2006, in Budapest.

With a mix of Hungarian and English language speakers, this is a great chance for Hungarian and international Ubuntu fans to get together in one of Europe’s beautiful old cities.

Hungarian speakers: Attila Dobi, Gábor Kelemen, Péter Mátó, Gábor
Süveg, Gábor Török.

English speakers: Mario Đanić (Edubuntu Developer), Ante Karamatić
(Ubuntu Developer, Ubuntu Printing Team), Jani Monoses (Xubuntu Lead
Developer), Raphaël Pinson (Kubuntu Core Developer), Szilveszter
Farkas (Google Summer of Code student).

Get along to Building ‘I’ of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics on 28 October 2006 for a great day of Ubunting!

Ubuntu Hungary website (English conference information).

The previous time the Geeks and Nerds challenged each other at dawn, it was MySQL vs. Oracle. This time at the Penguin Bowl there ensured an all-out battle of the Desktops as the sci-fi and tech questions rained in: Novell’s Open Audio team vs. the Ubuntu takedown squad.

Once again, Samba founder Jeremy Allison was the multi-skilled host and appeared by storming onto the stage wearing a full Astronaut suit surrounded by the opening music from 2001: A Space Odyssey as the competitors assembled facing each other. Behind the bench for the Nerds were Ubuntu’s Jorge Castro, Corey Burger and Canonical’s Malcolm Yates (aka “mdy”).

It turns out that Malcolm is just the type of guy you want for a quiz. When the next question is “What does SuSE stand for?”, it’s useful to have formerly worked for the company in question! Malc even knew the obscure Bill Gates’ OS/2 quote “this is the most significant OS in our time”, again, that’s what you get for being a product manager back at IBM in the past.

Apparently there were no Steve Ballmer questions (of Microsoft fame) and no chair throwing, but at the end, the contestants got handed black turtle-neck sweat shirts and were invited to “dance the iPod dance” in the chosen style of Steve Jobs. Perhaps the best bit was when the Suse team were “shocked” to find that their victors, Corey and Jorge are both volunteers and not paid (Ubuntu is just that good that we like working for free!) The low bit could be said to when Corey forgot the name of the ship from Firefly in front of the huge audience. [Ed: I didn’t know either…]

After Ubuntu cruised to victory nearly 5,000 points ahead, the final score closed at 25,750 points vs. 21,000 for Suse’s Geeks. Ted Hedger of Novell admitted afterwards on his podcast, that “we got our butts kicked”, the Geeks one redeeming feature came when then won the Lego bridge building round by making a longer arch out of the small colourful plastic bricks.

You can find a short review over at download squad, get those photos uploaded to flickr!

You have Ubuntu, you love Ubuntu and you want to share Ubuntu…. so in response to comments on the Ubuntu forums, Canonical is looking for a new T-Shirt design that will be used at upcoming conferences to promote Ubuntu.

Printing can be done on the front and/or back of the shirt and the design should work on either a black or white t-shirt. If you are interested in taking up the challenge - designs should be sent to chris.kenyon@ubuntu.com by 08:00 UTC (that’s GMT) on Wednesday 9th August 2006.

Please submit your design in a print-ready high resolution with an indication of whether it should be printed on a black or white shirt. The winning design will be announced by COB on the 9th and the winner will be sent 5 printed T-shirts with their winning design.

We very much look forward to seeing your ideas and designs and many thanks to those in the forums who have been suggesting that we do this!

[Discuss the competition on the forums]

Say it loud, say it lewd! The cheeky pranksters at LUGRadio let us know that the sabdfl will be making an appearance at LUGRadio Live 2006, which takes place in Wolverhampton, England on the weekend of the 22nd and 23rd July. The sabdfl was at last years event and according to all reports, captivated the audience throughout his inspiring talk.

LUGRadio Live 2006 follows on from last year’s inaugural community event for Free Software and Open Source fans. This year over 40 speakers, an exhibition and BOF sessions are packed into the event. You’ll recognise some Ubuntu names among the speakers, such as Scott James Remnant, Matthew Garrett and Jonathan Riddell. Also appearing will be Simon Phipps, Michael Meeks, Sarah Ewan, Christian Schaller, Gervase Markham… and many more.

[Discuss]

• Location: Luxembourg
• Link: http://www.linuxdays.lu/

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• Link: http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/7.0/

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• Link: http://linuxworldexpo.com/

• Location:Portland, Oregon, USA
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• Location:Brussels, Belgium
• Link: http://www.fosdem.org/2006