Monthly Archives: January 2012

Vacant Developer Membership Board seat: Call for nominations

By pleia2 | Published: 2012-01-17

We will soon have a Vacant Developer Membership Board seat. Michael Bienia is reaching the end of his term, and we need to find a replacement. This is a call for nominations. The DMB is responsible for reviewing and approving new Ubuntu developers, meeting for about an hour once a fortnight. Candidates should be Ubuntu […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 248

By akgraner | Published: 2012-01-16

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #248 for the week January 9 – 15, 2012, and the full version is available here. In this Issue we cover: Xubuntu, Kubuntu, and Edubuntu 12.04 will be LTS Ubuntu Success @ CES Another Successful User Days! Ubuntu Stats Ubuntu Hour, SCALE 10x and Ubuntu User […]

Interview with Quackers

By ubuntu-news-team | Published: 2012-01-14

1. Tell as much as you’re willing about your “real life” like name, age, gender, location, family, religion, profession, education, hobbies, etc. Ok, I’m Mike Donald, I’m 51 yearsw old and I live in Manchester, UK 2. When and how did you become interested in computers? in Linux? in Ubuntu? My introduction to computers came […]

Ubuntu User Days — This Weekend!

By pleia2 | Published: 2012-01-11

This weekend from Saturday 13:30 UTC through Sunday 03:00 UTC the Classroom team will be hosting Ubuntu User Days! User Days was created to be a set of chat-based classes offered during a one day period to teach the beginning or intermediate Ubuntu user the basics to get them started with Ubuntu. User Days sessions […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 247

By pleia2 | Published: 2012-01-10

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #246 for the week December 19, 2011 – January 8, 2012, and the full version is available here. In this Issue we cover: Ubuntu 12.04 Development update New IRC Council Canonical at CES, Las Vegas, 10th – 13th January to showcase Ubuntu TV Community Acknowledgments and Success Stories […]