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Month: November, 2008

On Ubuntu community news

30 November, 2008 (11:52) | Ubuntu | No comments

Community communications are essential. So are community news. A source of news (both technical and general public) is great when you want to keep in touch with the Ubuntu world, without having to digg around in IRC logs, mailing lists, external blog posts, forum posts,…Ok, So what do we have right now?

 The Ubuntu Fridge. Great […]

Community infrastructure : the newbie test

17 November, 2008 (22:12) | Ubuntu | No comments

How adapted to average users the Ubuntu community infrastructure (set of websites) is? These last days I tried an interesting experiment. I compared its infrastructure with several others distros: OpenSuse, Fedora, Mint, Mandriva.
To make this survey, I placed myself as a newbie, an outsider which has some very basic Linux notions. I never used command […]

Ubuntu Brainstorm 8.10 report

2 November, 2008 (14:23) | Ubuntu | 10 comments

Intrepid is out, a new cycle begins… Time for planning!
I wrote a small document about Ubuntu Brainstorm trying to summarize what’s going on there (with a few stats), what you can expect from it, a summary of the most wanted features from its users, and its impact. I wrote this hoping to give to contributors […]