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Archive for December 13th, 2007


Posted on December 13, 2007 - by jono

Quickies

Ladies and Gentleman, a few quickies to shoot out here:

Open Source

  • On Sunday Dec. 16th, Richard Johnson (nixternal) and (hopefully) Mario Limonciello (superm1) will be leading an Ubuntu Packaging Jam to teach the fine art of software packaging. This is your chance to learn how to take code and package it. We want to see more Packaging Jams, so read the guide and let me know if you are running one. :)
  • I did an interview with the Linux Magazine podcast about Ubuntu, Open Source and other stuff. Go and listen to it here.
  • LugRadio Live fans, news is coming soon about the LugRadio Live 2008 UK and LugRadio Live 2008 USA events. We are working hard to finalise the decided dates and venues. Rest assured, the next year’s events will kick some mighty arse, like never before.
  • My last day before Christmas is tomorrow, so expect a slower turn-around of email. I get back to the grindstone on the 8th Jan.

Music

As I have discovered interesting music videos on YouTube, I have kept a list. I figured I would share this list, as there are some real gems here:

Rock on Tommy. :)


Posted on December 13, 2007 - by jono

Kubuntu Tutorials Day is on!

Kubuntu fans, today (yes, today!) a demonstration of Kubuntu love is going to be happening on #kubuntu-devel on Freenode. See this page for more details and the schedule, but a quick summary:

  • 15:00 UTC – 16:00 UTC – Get programming with PyKDE 4 – jriddell – Scared by C++? Quite right too. Learn how to code graphical apps in an hour with PyKDE 4.
  • 16:00 UTC – 16:30 UTC – kubuntu bug triage – txwikinger – Not a coder but want to help? We show you how to make good quality bug reports and triage existing ones.
  • 16:30 UTC – 17:00 UTC – branch your svn with bzr – jriddell – How to commit your changes when you don’t have an account? How to work experimentally on some code? Distributed revision control is the way forward and bzr is the simplest yet most fully featured system there is.
  • 17:00 UTC – 18:00 UTC – Packaging 101 – jpatrick – How to turn some code into a .deb, one of the best ways of getting into distro development or for getting your code out there.
  • 18:00 UTC – 19:00 UTC – Get your work into Kubuntu: PPA, REVU, how to pass New queue – dholbach – Now you know how to make a .deb, get it into the archives for millions to use.
  • 19:00 UTC onwards – Kubuntu and KDE Q&A – nixternal, jcastro – Want to know how to get into Kubuntu development? Want to ask why we love KDE so much? The Kubuntu developers are here to answer any question you have.

This is a great opportunity to get involved in Kubuntu development and Ubuntu/Kubuntu packaging. As ever, you can get started with packaging by moseying on over to the MOTU Getting Started page.

Feel the KDE and Kubuntu love. :)