Docs Team meeting – Sunday, May 29th – 20:00 UTC
Just a quick note to let people know that we’re holding an Ubuntu Documentation Team meeting tomorrow, Sunday, May 29th, at 20:00 UTC. When is 20:00 UTC? Here is how to figure it out: It’s easy (Yes, step one is, “It’s easy.”) Click on this fancy link. Look through the list of cities and find [...]
Ubuntu documentation at UDS: A summary
Now that my week at the Ubuntu Developer Summit is over, and I have completed my safe flight back, I thought I would write up a blog post about my experience while I complete my recovery from jet lag. My week at UDS was a challenging week. A great week. A week in which I [...]
Help for Ubuntu 11.04 – We are working on it
Trying to write documentation for both Gnome 3 and Ubuntu 11.04 had many of the documentation contributors a bit strapped for time, but we are making progress on user help for 11.04. Here is a quick peek at what we are doing: Click to play This is all done with Mallard and Yelp. KDE, you [...]
Gnome 3 documentation hackfest
Although I’ve primarily worked on Xubuntu documentation in the past, this cycle has seen me contribute quite a bit to gedit documentation. Unfortunately, I’ve asked, and the gedit team isn’t going to be making an additional release for the 2.3x branch, so these updates won’t be included in Ubuntu 11.04. : / Update: I’ve spoken [...]
Xfce 4.8pre1 is released
Today the Xfce team released the first official pre-release build of what will later become Xfce version 4.8. From the release announcement: This release incorporates major changes to the core of the Xfce desktop environment and hopefully succeeds in fulfilling a number of long time requests. Among the most notable updates is that we have [...]
Obamapalooza and Change.gov
Like quite a few others, I was able to attend the “Obamapalooza*,” election night event in Grant Park this past Tuesday. I was lucky enough to get a ticket to the event, and being part of that moment has made me very happy over the past few days. I’m including a few photos and notations [...]
