Monthly Archives: August 2010

Call for testing, Gwibber (Lucid and Maverick)

Today is the day affectionately known as “Twitter’s OAuthpocalypse”. Twitter is shutting down basic auth completely, which Gwibber has relied on. So after today Twitter will cease to work for anyone that hasn’t updated to the OAuth enabled version of Gwibber. I have uploaded packages for both Maverick and Lucid to the ~ubuntu-desktop PPA for […]

Announcing Ubuntu App Developer Week!

Announcing Ubuntu App Developer Week! It’s that time again! Ubuntu App Developer Week (Formally Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week), is happening online between September 27th through October 1st, 2010. “What is Ubuntu App Developer Week?” Ubuntu App Developer Week is a week of sessions aimed at enabling and inspiring developers to write applications that scratch their […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #208

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #208 for the week of August 22nd – August 28th and is available here. In this issue we cover: 11.04 Ubuntu Developer Summit Announced Getting More Developers Interested In Participating In Ubuntu Ubuntu Stats Bug Stats Translation Stats Lucid Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week Maverick […]

LoCos, Leaders, and Lessons Learned: Michigan Team

Article contributed by Amber Graner In the latest LoCo Team interview in this US Teams Interview Series – LoCos, Leaders, and Lessons Learned, Amber Graner talks to Greg Grossmeier of the Ubuntu Michigan LoCo Team. Greg talks about the history of the team, resources, events, a new podcast put together but Ubuntu Michigan team members […]

Announcing this week's Bug Day target – Ubuntu Translations! – Thursday, August 26, 2010!

This week’s Bug Day target is *drum roll please* Ubuntu Translations! The task is to assign to the right package and triage those as well: 15 New bugs need a hug 31 Incompletes bugs need a status check 42 Confirmed bugs need a review Bookmark it, add it to your calendars, turn over those egg-timers! […]