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Going freelance, and open source cycles

18 March, 2009 (20:06) | Ubuntu | No comments

A quick update on my professional and open source activities:
Firstly, I’ll go freelance as a Drupal web developper during the next month, after eight months as an employee. The big crazy jump. But that’s crazy stuff that keeps me alive After Ubuntu Brainstorm and France24, I’ll be looking for Drupal related work.
Then Ubuntu Brainstorm […]

Ubuntu Brainstorm v2, finally

13 January, 2009 (20:36) | Ubuntu | 5 comments

After being delayed a few months due to some technical requirements, the new Ubuntu Brainstorm is here! It was partially sponsored by the Stockholm airport back in august. It includes:

The new moderator team (25 people!), which can now enter into action. It is also easier to contact them.
An easier way for users to interact with […]

Another blurry announcement

13 January, 2009 (15:04) | Ubuntu | 6 comments


Ubuntu news website mockups

10 January, 2009 (18:39) | Misc, Ubuntu | 23 comments

At last UDS, Nick Ali and I felt that really, some real news website was needed, and I won’t go again through the rationale (see this post). The matter was discussed (see blueprint page), and summary of the session can be found here. (Nick, could you link it on the blueprint page?)
I’ve started working on […]

On a new Ubuntu News website

9 December, 2008 (01:38) | Ubuntu | 5 comments

We got a UDS session about new ways to handle Ubuntu news today (blueprint, summary of the discussion). Basically, it comes down to three things :

Convince people and teams this is really needed
Posting restrictions : who can post, and how?
Visibility of this website: We want better than that.

1) Ubuntu teams need to communicate. Call for […]

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 […]

Introducing the Ubuntu Wanted project

25 September, 2008 (19:44) | Ubuntu | 5 comments

What do we need to get innovative stuff implemented?

A great idea
The manpower
The infrastructure and toolset

(1) is now more or less successfully covered by Ubuntu Brainstorm. Concerning (3), some good infrastructures exists around here, such as Launchpad, and development toolsets are good but not yet optimal IMO (I’ll keep that for later). (2) is much more […]

The Stockholm airport to sponsor Ubuntu Brainstorm

16 August, 2008 (00:45) | Ubuntu | 7 comments

Hey, nice catchy title, isn’t it?
To be more precise, the LFV group, owner of the larger aiports in Sweden, is running in cooperation with two swedish universities, an airline ground handler and one IT consulting firm a project called “Airport Living Lab” (english on the second part). Quoting its mission:
By harnessing the concept […]

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