S03E05 – Hear Em Rave

Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Dave Walker, Tony Whitmore and Laura Cowen gather in “Studio A” to bring you episode five of season three of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team.

In this week’s show:-

• What we’ve been doing this week including installing Ubuntu Lucid Beta 1 on a laptop, playing with Gwibber, not reporting bugs, letting Canonical developers logon to machines to diagnose bugs, being ill, organising OggCamp, following the Digital Economy Bill discussion, Getting {frustrated by not getting} Things Done, sponsoring someone elses upload to Ubuntu, playing with an O2 Joggler, avoiding DIY, bug triaging, and creating & uploading patches.
• We’ll talk about the experience of new users introduced to Free Software communities
• In the News this week:-
  • SCO lose
  • Lexmark users win
  • IBM ‘betrays its patent pledge’
  • Google develops open codecs for ARM
• We announce an upcoming events:-
  • April 17th – OSSBarCamp, IBM Pembroke St. Offices, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
  • June 11th, 12th & 13th – South East Linux Fest
  • July 19th – 24th – Europython, Birmingham, UK. europython.eu
  • 1st – 2nd May, Liverpool, UK – OggCamp 10 sponsored by Linux Format (Media Partner), The Open Learning Centre, The Linux Emporium, Viglen, Bitfolk and OpsView and our new sponsor Recruit12, and our new sponsor Linux Fund.
• The Ecosphere Bit about Ubuntu has discussion of..
  • Ubuntu One now has phone sync via Funambol
  • Mark Shuttleworth attempts to close the discussion on the buttons for now
  • Matt Zimmerman blogs about the life of a bug in numbers
  • Ubuntus new web office integration
  • Ubuntu keeps Google as default search engine for Lucid
  • Ubuntu Lucid Final Freeze Approaches
• And finally we cover your emails, tweets and dents and voicemail since our last show

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