Laura Cowen, Ciemon Dunville, Tony Whitmore, Dave Walker (and a bit of Alan Pope) present the latest mammoth episode of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

In this week’s show:-

• What we’ve been doing this week including ADSL woes, Drupal upgrades and having your head in the clouds.
• We discuss whether we should exclusively use Free (as in speech) web services and formats, and whether it’s more important to be inclusive than to use solely Free services.
• The News
  • Adopt a line of Miro code
  • Ex-Microsoft coder says Linux will win
  • Android applications running on Ubuntu
  • Dell stick with 8.04 LTS for their latest netbook
  • Landscape v1.3 can manage Amazon EC2 cloud machines
  • Wikimedia move Wikipedia to a Creative Commons licence

• We announce some upcoming events:-
  • June 12th to the 14th - Owen Sound, Canada, Writing Open Source
  • June 13th - Clemson, South Carolina, South East Linux Fest
  • June 19th & 20th - New York, New York, Open Video Conference
  • June 28th to July 4th - Birmingham, UK, EuroPython 2009
  • July 20th - Nottingham, UK, Open Source Schools Unconference
  • September 19th - All around the world, Software Freedom Day
  • October 24th - Newhampton arts centre, Wolverhampton, UK, LUGRadio Live 2009

• We have an interview with the lovely Daniel Holbach about his work with the Ubuntu community and get his advice on packaging applications
• We announce the winners of episode four’s competition to get Ubuntu One invites
• We start a fantastic new competition to win entry to three days of Europython 2009 including two nights of accommodation. Email competition@ubuntu-uk.org with your answer before Sunday 7th June 2009
• We delve into the Ubuntu Ecosphere (or “Gerald”, as we called it this episode)
  • Oxford Archeology talk about their experiences with Canonical support
  • The future of Edubuntu
  • Developing the security advisory UI for WINE applications
  • The new Ubuntu User Magazine

• And finally we cover your emails, tweets and dents since our last show

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