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Quick Acire and Python Snippets Guide

by on March 22, 2010 in Community, Desktop, Ubuntu

Today someone asked me how to run Acire and Python Snippets from source and contribute more snippets. I just wanted to pop up the instructions quickly here so I can point folks at them. These should work on Lucid and Karmic for sure, and very possibly older versions. First grab the tools you need to [...]

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Make a Difference: Ada Lovelace Day

by on March 22, 2010 in Community

Just a quick reminder to you good folks that Ada Lovelace Day is happening on Wed 24th March 2010. For those of you unfamiliar with it, it is a fantastic initiative that was kicked off last year to highlight and celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science. The goal of the day is [...]

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Help Needed! Reviewing And Merging Patches

by on March 22, 2010 in Community, Desktop, Ubuntu

Nigel Babu has been working to spread the word about gathering some community steam around patches in Ubuntu. We have an incredibly fortunate situation in Ubuntu where lots of people spend their time and effort producing patches which fix bugs, and they share their gifts with the project to help make Ubuntu better. With so [...]

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