Some topics covered:

• UDS Intrepid Ibex
• Ubuntu Live Canceled
• New Ubuntu Membership Approval Boards to Meet
• New Ubuntu Universe Contributors
• Ubuntu Stats
• Launchpad News
• Ubuntu Forums News
• In the Press & Blogosphere
• In Other News
• Meeting Summaries
• Upcoming Meetings & Events
• Updates & Security

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With UDS Intrepid wrapped up, attendees are posting pictures of the week long event. Here are some cool shots posted so far on Flickr.

Cornerstone of UDS:

Sessions:

Between sessions, hacking code, discussing plans of world domination, checking email…

Photo wall of attendees

Oh oops, me catching some shut-eye.

Luke Yelavich, part of the Ubuntu All-Stars, practicing…

Howard Chu, of OpenLDAP, entertaining the crowd…

Ubuntu All Stars jamming away…

DJ Holbach still beaming from his hugs…

Jorge showing off his heavy metal face…

As Ken was getting ready to take the group photo, some random folks started waving to us as they walked by…

More pictures can be seen on Flickr with the tag udsintrepid.

Hopefully someone will post Mark joining the Ubuntu All Stars in singing Light My Fire by The Doors.

Remember to check out the Ubuntu Developers channel on YouTube.

The first day of FOSSCamp in Prague has ended. As with most FooCamp style conferences, the sessions provided excellent opportunies to learn more about upstream projects and find ways to collaborate.

As the day kicked off:

Early in the day, the schedule looked like this:

Eventually, more sessions were added and some sessions continued on to a second time slot.

My favorite session so far? Dan Shearer, from Samba, talking about the latest developments that have opened up interesting opportunities for them. Dan said OpenChange, a feature functional Exchange server replacement should be available by SambaXP next year.

More pictures coming soon!

• Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE and OpenSolaris Community Managers — A Radio Free Software Interview - Barton, Fedora, Glynn Foster, Jono Bacon, Karsten Wade - “Barton moderates a discussion between Karsten Wade of Fedora, Jono Bacon of Ubuntu, Zonker Brockmeier of OpenSUSE and Glynn Foster of OpenSolaris. (44:08)”
• Ubuntu landed on Berlin metro system | Screenage - “The guys from “Berliner Fenster”, a company responsible for the content of the television system installed inside underground vehicles (more than 3.700 displays) were so kind (thank you!) providing us with a spot for our release party this Saturday for free. So just on time with the release starting from today there are small spots viewable by an audience of about 1.5 million people per day according to their web site.” See pictures of the ad.
• n00.be » Ubuntu in Vermist - “we present to you the Belgian movie Vermist where police detectives apparently use Ubuntu as their operating system of choice…”
• iTWire - Why we love Ubuntu Linux (or maybe we don’t) - “Ubuntu had all the signs of being the most unifying and popular Linux distro of all time, but on the other I kept finding people grumbling about it. On reflection, the grumbles may be because Ubuntu has been so massively hyped that the reality can be disappointing when compared to expectations. Perhaps Ubuntu has made itself a victim by virtue of its own marketing…”
• Why Brazil Loves Linux : Gustavo Duarte - “These markets are also friendly towards Linux and pose significant challenges for Microsoft. This post is my take on the reasons for Brazil’s fondness of Linux. I speak for Brazil since I was born and raised there, but I think much of this applies to the other BRIC countries and emerging markets in general.”

• Digg - Official Booze of the Ubuntu distro?
• Unixfication II | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com - “Can the Linux community get over its “not invented here” ideology which has often hindered its ability to adopt technological improvements from outside sources? I keep saying to myself, I hope so. But recent events have shown me that we have a long way to go until we become a culture of inclusion and not of exclusion and isolationism…”
• Development of Automatix has been discontinued - From the founder of AX, “Ubuntu as a distro has been faulty by design from the start. It was always a mediocre Debian fork…it failed to deliver in terms of public anticipation. Automatix was the one of the biggest reasons…why Ubuntu succeeded in its second and third years as a distribution…Folks like Matthew Garrett do not understand DPKG well enough to understand that Automatix was NEVER a replacement for dpkg, or apt or synaptic (do not read Add-Remove which is an extremely poor implementation in itself). We made Automatix and we made Ubuntu as popular as it is today [my emphasis]. If someone wants a more technical discussion, feel free to write. If I read the kind of trollish crap that Matthew Garrett wrote, I will not bother to reply. I do not have time for beginners and learners who try to sound important.” WOW. Matthew pipes in on the thread.

edit: getautomatix.com seems to be down. Here is an image of the post: http://img108.imageshack.us/my.php?image=axlivesty5.png

edit part II: getautomatix.com is back up.

• The heron has landed: a review of Ubuntu 8.04: Page 1 - “This release is disappointing because it falls short of what was promised, but it still delivers a lot of value for experienced users who will be able to work around the weaknesses…”
• Moving to Ubuntu | A Wor[l]d of Mentations - “My overall experience in these past days using Ubuntu has been really incredible and I would suggest each and every Windows user to atleast try Ubuntu using Wubi..”
• LinuxDevCenter.com — Meet The Hardy Heron: What’s New in Ubuntu 8.04 - Background on Ubuntu and its development and the Ubuntu Massachusetts LoCo gets a plug.
• Why many MCSEs won’t learn Linux | Paul Murphy | ZDNet.com - “Basically, to learn Unix you learn to understand and apply a small set of key ideas and achieve expertise by expanding both the set of ideas and your ability to apply them - but you learn Windows by working with the functionality available in a specific release.”

Some topics covered:

• Ubuntu Open Week Review
• Intrepid Ibex: Open for Business
• Ubuntu Stats
• LoCo News
• Launchpad News
• Ubuntu Forum News
• In the Press & Blogosphere
• In Other News
• Upcoming Meetings & Events
• Updates & Security

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