Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, Alan Pope, and Tony Whitmore are live again in Studio A for episode 11 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!
In this week’s show:-
- We talk about what we’ve been doing including going to noisy heavy metal concerts and going to noisy motorsports events, as well as attending more peaceful conferences, and installing Moodle and Natty.
- We talk about Google+.
- In the news:-
- Events:-
- It’s Ubuntu Community Week! Now! With sessions from Alan Bell, Jono Bacon, Laura Czajkowski, and some dodgy bloke called Popey.
- 13th – 14th August 2011 – OggCamp11 – The Maltings, Farnham, UK. More information will be going up on the website this week, including a schedule for the weekend:
- Friday evening: informal get-together in William Cobbett pub over the road from the venue.
- Saturday 10am: doors open (OggCamp11 starts!)
- Saturday lunchtime: geeknic (more details to follow), with soft drinks sponsored by O’Reilly
- Saturday afternoon: live joint recording by UUPC and Linux Outlaws
- Saturday 7pm: drinks and entertainment in the Cellar Bar at the venue, sponsored by Bitfolk
- Sunday 10.30am: doors re-open (bit more bleary-eyed this time)
- Sunday 4pm: we all pack up and get out
- Sunday evening: those left over adjourn to Premier Inn Aldershot for informal goodbye drinks
- And other stuff like:
- Parking fees apply at the venue on Saturday, £3.50 for whole day; free on Sunday
- New speaker, Wayne Myers, will speaking about professional music production on Linux
- Instructions on how to submit talks on the day using our funky new txt and Web system written by Jon “the nice guy” Spriggs
- How to volunteer to be on the CREW (get involved and get a free t-shirt)
- Wifi! We’re looking into it and should be okay for speakers during talks but for general wifi use, please bring your own 3G dongle
- And all our lovely sponsors: Bytemark (our top dogs!), Chris Procter on behalf of lug.org.uk, Bitfolk (sponsoring our Saturday night party), and Linux Format, our media partner (including discounted subscriptions for attendees).
- We have an interview with Jorge Castro
- We announce the winner of our TextBookStuff competition.
- We introduce a new competition to win one of those HP Microservers that we talked about last episode. Entries to competition@ubuntu-uk.org by Sunday 31st July
- Finally we have your feedback.
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I was slightly unsettled by Jorge’s comments about deleting content pertaining to older versions of Ubuntu – are Linux users not savvy enough to filter their searches to recent results? If I search for something and see that all the results come from 2005 and 2006, I know I’ll only use them as a last resort. What about people who are using older versions of Ubuntu due to something like hardware limitations? Or other distributions which are using older versions of the same packages, so old workarounds for Ubuntu might work in a newer release of another distro. Just my two pennies worth…
I think part of the problem is users who *aren’t* linux savvy, and just want their webcam/dongle/whatever to work. You know that due to the speed FOSS moves, something posted in 2005 probably isn’t still applicable, but to someone who’s new to Linux, they might not know that or even realise there’s a date they should be checking. How long has Windows XP been out, for instance?
You should really try Diaspora again. It has evolved a lot.
Distributed social networking adresses a lot of problems that Facebook, Google+ and most other networks have. It it gets a wider user base, it could make social networking a solid and trustworthy technology, just like eMail is. But in oder to get more people on Diaspora, we have to get more early adopters and more advocacy.
Why don’t you set up a UUPC Diaspora page similarly to your UUPC identi.ca account. It doesn’t mean you shouldn’t use Facebook at all but it raises awareness among users that there is an alternative (that is not once again controlled by one company)?
Ok! Done. We’re uupc@joindiaspora.com
I would like to say that I prefer Ubuntu’s Unity to the interface on OSX Lion.
They are doing a good. Looking forward to Ubuntu 11.10. Keep the podcasts coming.