Popey’s back! With Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen for the seventeenth episode of Season Six of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!
In this week’s show:-
- We take a look at what’s been happening in the news:
- Change.org has a petition to get Google to create a native Linux Google Drive application
- RHEL roadmap from RedHat
- A film production company has filed a class action lawsuit against Warner/Chappell Music over the rights to the song “Happy Birthday to You”
- Leadwerks has launched a Kickstarter campaign to bring its software to Linux
- Linux may be the answer to freeing ourselves from companies complicit in mass government surveillance
- We catch up with what’s happening in the Ubuntu community:
- Blog about upcoming developments in Unity (and here)
- Discussion about how the non-Unity Ubuntu flavours such as Kubuntu will handle the move to Mir
- Ubuntu members get a printed certificates signed by Mark Shuttleworth
- Ubuntu App Developer Cookbook now available on developer.ubuntu.com
- Ubuntu Touch is now based on Saucy Salamander
- And we mention some events:
- Hack ‘n’ Talk – 29th June – London
- OpenStreetMap Mapping Picnic – 20th July – Tower Hamlets Cemetary Park, London, UK
- Open Street Map conference – 6th-8th September – Aston University Business School Conference Centre, Aston Street, Birmingham, UK
- Software Freedom Day – 21st September (register your team by 21st July to get free goodies)
- OggCamp13 – 19th-20th October – Liverpool, UK
We’ll be back in one week with an interview with Linda Sandvick of Code Club. In the meantime, send us your feedback!
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