Author Archives: boredandblogging

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #205

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-08-09

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #205 for the week August 1st – August 7th, 2010 and is available here. In this issue we cover: Maverick Alpha-3 Released Desktop Testing Team Request For Candidates: Application Review Board Making room in the sound indicator Interview with Isabell Long Mark Shuttleworth apologises for alleged […]

Desktop Testing Team

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-08-06

Today, one day after reaching the third Maverick milestone, Alpha 3, I am happy to announce the birth of a new testing project and team in Ubuntu: the Desktop Testing Team. Every time we release a new Ubuntu milestone, testers are encouraged to install the new milestone and play around with it, filing bugs as […]

Interview with Isabell Long

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-08-06

Penelope Stowe: Tell us a bit about yourself Isabell Long: My name is Isabell Long, I’m 16, and I now live in England – after spending four years living in France. I have an extensive interest in technology and open-source software. I am a community coordinator for the freenode IRC network and a proud official […]

Request For Candidates: Application Review Board

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-08-06

In Belgium at the last Ubuntu Developer Summit, we had a fantastic set of discussions about how we could create a process that empowers application developers to bring their applications into the Ubuntu Software Center much easier. Today our developer and packaging processes are more designed for a contributor who wishes to contribute to the […]

Free Books For Approved LoCo Teams

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-08-06

Once again we have some wonderful free books to give away from Prentice Hall, the rather spanky-awesome publishers of The Official Ubuntu Book by Mako, Matthew Helmke and Corey Burger, and the brand new Official Ubuntu Server Book by our friend and yours, Kyle Rankin and Mako. These books were commissioned by Debra Williams-Cauley who […]