Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, Alan Pope, and Tony Whitmore are in Studio A for episode 15 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!
In this week’s show:-
- We chat about having been on holiday, getting Ubuntu membership, women in IT, and listening to sci-fi audio books.
- We talk to Sarah Chard and Tony Sales about their Open Source Schools project, and to Jonathan Nadeau about accessibility and free software.
- In the news:-
- Awesomebar and Firefox come to Android tablets
- Google streamlines
- Cloud-based gaming for Linux users
- Freedom of Information request reveals OSS not equal in UK Government
- Phew! Cliff gets his pension
- Linux Foundation has security worries
- News of Lightworks for Linux
- Ben Goldacre crowd-sources nerdy day trips
- Events:-
- 15th October, Blackpool, UK – Barcamp Blackpool
- Ubuntu Happy Hour (PDF)
- 17th September Software Freedom Day in Hereford at the All Saints Cafe from 10am-4pm
- 13th-15th October LibreOffice Conference in Paris
- 4th & 5th February 2012FOSDEM announced
- We have a Bit About Ubuntu:-
- We have a command line lurve that will find random packages for you in the repository (try replacing ‘apt-cache show’ with ‘apt-get install’ if you’re feeling lucky):
apt-cache show $(grep -h ‘Package: ‘ /var/lib/apt/lists/*_Packages | cut -d’ ‘ -f2 | grep -v ^lib | shuf -n 1)
- Finally we have your feedback.
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