Looking for a CSS/HTML guru to work on Ubuntu One
In the last few months, I've been lucky enough to be able to hire some exceptional people that were contributing to Ubuntu One in their free time. Every time someone comes in from the community, filled...
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Thunderbird will be default in Oneiric (11.10), maybe
A very healthy and civilised session about switching to Thunderbird by default just ended here in the Ubuntu Developer Summit, and the outcome was that if the Thunderbird developers manage to do some...
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Ubuntu One Files for Android released!
After a long and interesting journey, today we've released Ubuntu One Files for Android. The app started being developed by Michał Karnicki as a Google Summer of Code project, and he did such a...
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Community Council
So, it seems my nomination to the Community Council has been accepted \o/ It caught me a bit by surprise, so I'm struggling to add information to my wiki page again (it's been 4 years since I last...
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Ubuntu members over time
During the Community Council meeting yesterday we were talking about the general health and excitement levels of the community, and whether we were loosing a lot of members. I had a vague memory of us...
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Calling all Ubuntu power users: Upgrade to Ubuntu Precise Pangolin today!
It may of been a bit below the radar, but it was announced that for 12.04 LTS, there would be an improved focus on stability throughout the whole development cycle so more people could use it early on...
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Support open source games, donate to 0 A.D.
0 A.D. is an awesome cross-platform game that is fun, has stunning graphics and is completely open source. There's even a PPA for Ubuntu. It works wonderfully on both my laptops. They are looking for...
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Ubucon 2012, Buenos Aires edition
This June 1st and 2nd, we will be holding an all-Ubuntu conference for the second time in Argentina, and with plans to make it regional from now on (next one is in Uruguay!). Even though it's in...
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Help us organize UbuConLA 2012!
While a lot of you are at UDS, several Latin American LoCos are working hard to organize a local Ubuntu conference. Things are going really well, we're 4 weeks away, but we're a little short on funds....
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Real collaborative design with open source software
Last week we organized a local Ubuntu conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which we plan on making it a regional conference from now on thanks to the help from our friends in the Uruguay LoCo. The...
View ArticleLosing perspective
12.10 is out, how awesome is that? Go ahead and get it if you haven't yet. I've upgraded all my computers months ago and they've been stable and receiving polish and new features almost every day...
View ArticleRemote working
There seems to be quite a bit of buzz around Yahoo! effectively laying off remote workers (making them choose to start going to an office or resign), and I've read different perspectives on the...
View ArticleIt’s time
So, I've been around the Ubuntu community for a while. I installed 4.10 (Warty Warthog) as soon as it came out, I was fighting to keep my Debian installation usable at the time. I instantly fell in...
View ArticleClick packages continued discussions
Following up on the discussion opened up by Colin Watson on ubuntu-devel and further discussions at vUDS, we’ve created a public mailing list to continue exploring and coordinating all the work around...
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On open sourcing Ubuntu One filesync
This week has been bitter-sweet. On the one hand, we announced that a project many of us had poured our hearts and minds into was going to be shut down. It’s made many of us sad and some of us haven’t...
View ArticleA story on finding an elusive security bug and managing it responsibly
Now that all the responsible disclosure processes have been followed through, I’d like to tell everyone a story of my very bad week last week. Don’t worry, it has a happy ending. Part 1: Exposition...
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Engineering management
I'm a few days away from hitting 6 years at Canonical and I've ended up doing a lot more management than anything else in that time. Before that I did a solid 8 years at my own company, doing anything...
View ArticleClick packages and how they’ll empower upstreams
As the pieces start to come together and we get closer to converging mobile and desktop in Ubuntu, Click packages running on the desktop start to feel like they will be a reality soon (Unity 8 brings...
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Disassembling a DeLonghi eco310.r coffee machine
After a few weeks of being coffee-deprived, I decided to disassemble my espresso machine and see if I could figure out why it leaked water while on, and didn't have enough pressure to produce drinkable...
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Developing and scaling Ubuntu One filesync, part 1
Now that we've open sourced the code for Ubuntu One filesync, I thoughts I'd highlight some of the interesting challenges we had while building and scaling the service to several million users. The...
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