- 1-800-MAGIC: Back to Microsoft - Sergey Solyanik writes about why he left Google to go back to Microsoft. Lots of interesting points, but this is amusing: “First, I love multiple aspects of the software development process. I like engineering, but I love the business aspects no less. I can’t write code for the sake of the technology alone - I need to know that the code is useful for others, and the only way to measure the usefulness is by the amount of money that the people are willing to part with to have access to my work [my emphasis]. Sorry open source fanatics, your world is not for me!”
Some topics covered:
- Ubuntu 8.04.1 Freeze Proposed
- Intrepid Alpha 1 Released
- New Ubuntu Universe Contributor
- New Ubuntu Members
- Ubuntu Brainstorm News
- Ubuntu Women Project Status
- Maryland LoCo Summer Plans
- Ubuntu Stats
- Launchpad Downtime
- Ubuntu Forums News
- In the Press & Blogosphere
- In Other News
- Team Meeting Summaries
- Upcoming Meeting & Events
- Updates & Security
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If you moderate a Mailman mailing list that gets lots of spam, I slightly modified an existing Greasemonkey script that might make your life easier.
In the Administrative Database, it will default all messages to discard, and discard all messages from the sender (check “Add foo@bar.com to one of these sender filters” and turn on the discard radio button).
Remember to look over the messages and make sure you aren’t removing or ignoring valid posts/users.
The Greasemonkey script is here.
Check out Steve Langasek’s email for more info and download links: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-June/000440.html
Obviously, don’t install on production machines or any machine expecting a stable system.
Some topics covered:
- How to Run a Bug Jam
- French Live CD Derivative
- New Core Developers
- Ubuntu Stats
- LoCo News
- Ubuntu in the Debian Packages Tracking System
- Launchpad News
- Forum News
- In the Press & Blogosphere
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- Upcoming Meetings & Events
- Updates & Security
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Just a reminder that the next LoCo Council meeting is on Tuesday, 24-June-2008, 18:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting. If your LoCo wants to become approved, or would like to discuss any LoCo matters, please add yourself to the LoCo Council Agenda wiki page.
Some topics covered:
- Intrepid Alpha 1 Delayed
- Global Bug Jam: How you can help make it happen!
- Future Brainstorm Plans
- Intrepid blueprints from the Ubuntu Server Team
- New Ubuntu Members
- Gobuntu Future
- Ubuntu Stats
- Ubuntu Colombian Team OpenFest
- Technical Update
- Launchpad News
- Ubuntu Forums News
- In the Press & Blogosphere
- In Other News
- Upcoming Meetings & Events
- Updates & Security
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- [Phoronix] Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva Performance Compared - “Last week we released Phoronix Test Suite 1.0 and one of the article requests we received as a result was to do a side-by-side comparison between the popular desktop Linux distributions. Ask and you shall receive. Today we have up 28 test results from Ubuntu 8.04, Fedora 9, and Mandriva 2008.1.”
- Vienna failed to migrate to GNU/Linux: why? - “The City of Vienna made several crucial mistakes. In this article, I will list the most prominent ones…”
Some topics covered:
- More efficient membership approval process
- New Ubuntu Members
- LoCo Council Open for Business
- LinuxTag 2008
- Ubuntu Bugs & Stats
- Launchpad News
- Ubuntu Forums News
- In the Press & Blogosphere
- Ubuntu UK Podcast #6
- Full Circle Magazine #13
- Team Meeting Summaries
- Upcoming News & Events
- Updates & Securities
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