Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore, Dave Walker and Producer Laura Cowen are unfathomably back again with a sun-kissed, cake-less, Alan-packed 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 getting a tan, fun with PPAs and less fun with broken ‘net connections
• We interview Alan Lord and Alan Bell from The Open Learning Centre and Naked Computers about Expos, their Libertus packaged solutions, MiserWare and their opinions on Mono in Ubuntu.
• The News
  • FSF are recruiting
  • Chromium is releasing
  • Google are licensing
  • Censornet are moving
  • Jolicloud are de-cloaking
  • Fedora are downsizing
  • Sussex University are surveying

• We announce some upcoming events:-
  • June 12th to the 14th - Owen Sound, Canada, Writing Open Source
  • June 13th - Nokia, Farnborough, UK, Surrey and Hampshire Linux User Groups are holding a joint meeting
  • June 13th - Clemson, South Carolina, South East Linux Fest
  • June 19th to 20th - Vanderbilt Hall, New York City, The first ever Open Video Conference will take place with speakers including DVD Jon and hackers from Firefox, VLC, Miro and more.
  • June 28th to July 4th - Conservatoire in Birmingham, UK, EuroPython 2009
  • July 4th - ULU, Malet Street, London, UK - UK Unix User Group Open Tech 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 announce the winner of episode five’s competition to win entrance and accomodation at this year’s EuroPython
• We set a new competition to win another Viglen MPC-L! Email competition@ubuntu-uk.org with your answer before Sunday 21st June 2009
• We delve into the Ubuntu Ecosphere
  • Scott James-Remnant posts about a 10s boot time target
  • LiVES 0.9.9.9.9.9.9.9.9 is released
  • Ubuntu Community Council meeting including discussion of the Ubuntu One product name
  • Adblock Plus suggests a fairer way to unblock ads
  • Breathe icon theme released
  • Okular respecting the DRM flag a bug?
  • Ubuntu Server training too expensive?

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

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