November 2007 Ubuntu Community Report

November 2007 Ubuntu Community Report

Ladies and Gentleman, the *November 2007* Community Report is [now available](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/November2007)! Go and read it to find out what many of the Ubuntu teams have worked on this month. Rock and roll. 🙂 As ever, we are looking for more and...
Black Crusade

Black Crusade

I just wanted to say a huge thank-you to Jason Meers and Jim. A few days back Jason contacted me to say that he knew I liked metal and wanted to offer me a free spare ticket to the Black Crusade tour in Manchester. On this tour Shadows Fall, Arch Enemy, Dragonforce,...
The MOTU train rolls on

The MOTU train rolls on

MOTU arse-kicking sponsor by Super Hard Steel Toe Capped Dr Martin boots: * [Effie](https://effiejayx.velugmaracaibo.org.ve/?p=54) * [Nicolas](https://nvalcarcel.aureal.com.pe/?p=154) * [Philip](https://crunchbang.org/archives/2007/11/22/motu-revu-and-noclue/) [Join...
Smart. Enthusiastic. Decent.

Smart. Enthusiastic. Decent.

In my last post I uttered the following words: > You know, every so often it is tempting to get wrapped up in minutia and having it obscure the bigger picture. Sometimes its easy to forget we are surrounded by incredible, genuine, inspiring individuals, and this is a...
Realising what is important

Realising what is important

You know, every so often it is tempting to get wrapped up in minutia and having it obscure the bigger picture. Sometimes its easy to forget we are surrounded by incredible, genuine, inspiring individuals, and this is a privilege and not something we should take for...
Bringing home the MOTU

Bringing home the MOTU

With all the fun going on encouraging people to [get involved with Ubuntu packaging](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/GettingStarted), I was really psyched to see [this blog post](https://effiejayx.velugmaracaibo.org.ve/?p=47) in which Efrain is writing a short diary of...
Bringing home the MOTU

LugRadio Season 5 Episode 5 released!

LugRadio Season 5 Episode is out! Go and [grab it](https://www.lugradio.org/episodes/#episode88)! On this episode: * Havoc Pennington and Colin Walters from Red Hat talk about the Gnome Online Desktop project (1.23) * Do we need rockstar programmers? Prompted by...
Fire up your MOTU engines

Fire up your MOTU engines

You know what? Packaging is *super-important* in the Ubuntu world. We need more and more packagers to help make sure the software in Ubuntu is up to date, high quality and reliable. With this in mind, we need more and more packagers, and this means you. 🙂 We are...
The MOTU train rolls on

Facebewk

I can feel my fingers curling as I write this post, and I can feel my peers looking on in dismay, but I have to say, I continue to love Facebook. I am not sure what it is about it, but it really is helping me stay abreast of what my friends are doing, is genuinely...
November 2007 Ubuntu Community Report

We love Linux Format, yes we do

Wow, today [it was discovered](https://forums.lugradio.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3756) that [LugRadio](https://www.lugradio.org/) scored the top spot in a round-up of Linux podcasts in [Linux Format](https://www.linuxformat.co.uk/) magazine. Before the tin-foil hat...