Writing a good dent (or tweet) while at a conference
The next Ubuntu Developer Summit will be starting up tomorrow, and although not everyone can attend the event, there are a number of ways to participate remotely. Among other things, I like to follow the ‘dents (from Identi.ca) and tweets (from Twitter) from the event. Typically, people will use Identi.ca and Twitter to share snippets [...]
Call for Testing – Xubuntu 9.10 Release Candidate
Ara Pulido sent this message out to the Xubuntu-Users mailing list the other day, and I thought it was worth passing along to the greater Ubuntu community. Testing for the Xubuntu 9.10 release candidate is going on now, so please read the email below and help out if you can. Thanks!
Top 50 technical writers on the web + Xfce and Xubuntu doc updates
This site lists who they’ve identified as the top 50 technical writers on the web, which I stumbled upon via a link from Scott Nesbitt’s blog. While this list will certainly provide me with additional documentation resources, I notice a dearth of open-source documentation names in that list. No Shaun McCance, no Emma Jane Hogbin, [...]
How free is the software on my computer, Virtual Richard Stallman?
The VRMS program does a nice job of listing the non-free components on your system. Let’s see what my VRMS report shows: ———— jwc@tereska:~$ vrms Non-free packages installed on tereska linux-generic Complete Generic Linux kernel linux-restricted-modules- Non-free Linux 2.6.28 modules helper script linux-restricted-modules- Restricted Linux modules for generic kernels Contrib packages installed on tereska flashplugin-installer [...]
Xfce Documentation Licensing
Greetings! I hope everyone has been enjoying their summers, and that things are progressing along smoothly with the 9.10 release cycle. I want to share a brief note regarding Xfce documentation licensing with the hopes that others could provide some additional points for us to consider. Before I do that, though, let me pause to [...]
International Color Guide
I came across Xerox’s International Color Guide while reading through the items on my feed reader this evening. Because Ubuntu is developed for an international audience, I thought this color guide might be interesting to some of the artwork and desktop-UI folks in the Ubuntu community. The guide also includes a link to a “color [...]
Notes on UbuntuOne
I recently posted a couple of ‘dents onto identi.ca regarding UbuntuOne, but wanted to follow-up with some more complete thoughts. In thinking about UbuntuOne, there are a number of factors involved; it involves the need to build a sustainable business, trademark issues, and the level of one’s own comfort with using non-free software. To me, [...]
Ubuntu-Chicago 9.04 Release Party
Hello Chicagoland folks. : -) The Ubuntu-Chicago Local Community Team has organized our Ubuntu 9.04, the Jaunty Jackalope, release party, and we want you to be there. : -) You can check out the details on our team wiki page, but here is the short of it: Date: Saturday, April 25th Time: 2:00pm to [...]
Apt-urls – Now available on the Ubuntu wiki
Good news on the wiki front. : -) As of this morning, apt-urls are enabled on the Ubuntu Wiki. What does this mean? In simple terms, this feature provides a simple, wiki-based interface for apt, the base of our software management system. It means that we can now insert clickable links on the wiki that [...]
At the documentation conference
I’m attending the WritersUA conference in Seattle this week, and yesterday was day one of the conference. The conference started with Scott McCloud talking about how he created his Google Chrome comic, and I attended other talks on ISO documentation standards, as well as architecting your content so it can be reused. McCloud’s talk was [...]
