Flourish Open Source Conference – Call for Speakers
The University of Illinois at Chicago is once again planning to host their Flourish Open Source conference, and have put out a call for speakers. The event will be held April 1-3, 2011, on the university’s campus on the near Northwest side of Chicago. Though the conference is run by student volunteers, you wouldn’t know [...]
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 [...]
Project News & Status Updates
Here’s a somewhat quick run-down of some projects with-which I’ll be participating, and some other projects that, while I might not be a direct participant, I am curious to watch develop. Xfce Updates I see the LXDE project get a good amount of attention lately, in large part (I think) because it uses somewhat less [...]
Duck, Duck, Gnu: Mallard and DocBook 5 support in Emacs
Edit: I recommend checking out Paul Frields’ post about Emacs and nXML mode, and also looking at the Fedora wiki page that he created. I think his approach is a bit simpler and cleaner than what I’ve provided below. Feel free to peruse what I’ve written, though, as some of my links to “getting started” [...]
Upcoming FLOSS-related Events in the Midwest
Here’s a quick rundown of some upcoming Free and Open-Source software events in the Chicagoland / greater-midwest area. Saturday and Sunday, August 21 and 22, 2010: Barcamp Chicago Running all day and night this Saturday and Sunday 215 E. Ohio Street in downtown Chicago Numerous presentations, and a “BarCompany” startup hackathon Sunday, August 29: Ubuntu [...]
Thanks, Debian!
Today is Debian’s 17th birthday*, and with that comes Debian Appreciation day! Do you want to give them some thanks for the super work that they do? Just head over to thank.debian.net, and leave them a few words to express your gratitude. You can even search for your favorite package, team, or packaging team, and [...]
Updating the Ubuntu Packaging Guide
We’d like to get your input on where to focus documentation efforts on the Ubuntu Packaging Guide. There are all kinds of topics that need to be written, updated, or improved — so where should we start? What do you need most? Give your input via the this Google Docs Survey. I’ve provided some direction [...]
Dear Yahoo!
Dear Yahoo! Welcome to Ubuntu! As a regular contributor to the Ubuntu project, I think it’s great that you are partnering with Canonical. Because of the agreement you signed, Canonical will be able to hire more people to work on Free software. Also, your contributions will help Ubuntu continue offering their OS at no cost [...]
Thunar 1.1.0 – Native support for remote filesystems
Update: The updated version of Thunar with network share support will be included as part of Xfce 4.8, sure to be featured by all of the distributions that ship Xfce (e.g., Fedora 15, Xubuntu 11.04, OpenSUSE 11.4, and many others). Congratulations to Jannis Pohlmann on the release of Thunar 1.1.0! For those who don’t know, [...]
Xubuntu team meeting – Sunday, January 10 at 20:00 UTC
The Xubuntu team will be holding a meeting this Sunday, January 10th, at 20:00 UTC, and all are welcome to attend. The primary focus of this meeting will be on team governance, as Cody Somerville is transitioning out of his role as primary project leader. With that, we’ll be discussing changes to the Xubuntu Strategy [...]
