http://www.ndeschildre.net Wed, 07 May 2008 21:14:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was thinking the other day about Brainstorm and upstream interaction. The fact is, lots of ideas belongs to upstream projects, so how should we help them to use these ideas? Adding a new "software" field, and making something like [project_name].brainstorm.ubuntu.com would not require too much effort, but we can't ... http://www.ndeschildre.net/2008/05/07/decentralized-brainstorm/ At the moment, for an average user, it's pretty hard to install third party software. Why? The software is not shipped with the distribution package format : E.g. the software is bundled in tar.gz archives with custom command line installation scripts (such as the very new VIA Linux drivers). When it ... http://www.ndeschildre.net/2008/05/07/new-ways-to-handle-third-party-software-installations/ A few weeks ago, I published a small webcam viewer script written in python using GTK+ and Gstreamer. Rich submitted in a comment some nice enhancements to the code while keeping it under 200 lines: the ability to record videos from your webcam, in high and low quality, and with ... http://www.ndeschildre.net/2008/04/29/python-and-webcam-part-2/  ... when you are beginning to see that many spontaneous user fanwork! (don't worry, just invented this word) Here are the latest I encountered: And a pretty cool promotion website here. http://www.ndeschildre.net/2008/04/25/you-know-something-must-be-going-on/ because I believe a summer-of-code-like event is the next logical step after Ubuntu Brainstorm. because I think a good developer documentation center would help much for new and "foreign"(others OS) developers. http://www.ndeschildre.net/2008/04/23/what-id-like-to-discuss-at-the-fosscamp/ We are now two days before the final release of Ubuntu 8.04, and the candidate CD images are already here and need testing! Help us make sure they are critical-bug-free by following these instructions. http://www.ndeschildre.net/2008/04/22/ubuntu-hardy-heron-final-testing/ ... I stumble across this strip: :) Man I love the Xkcd webcomic! (Original strip location: http://xkcd.com/149/) http://www.ndeschildre.net/2008/04/22/while-fighting-with-sudo/ As you may know, we are getting close to the release of the next LTS version of Ubuntu, Hardy Heron 8.04! The release candidate is due thursday, and the final release the next week. And in these last development days, you can help to polish it! Testers are needed to test ... http://www.ndeschildre.net/2008/04/15/ubuntu-hardy-heron-rc-call-for-testing/ Just a quick link to a nice weekly pick of Brainstorm ideas. http://www.ndeschildre.net/2008/04/09/weekly-pick-of-brainstorm-ideas/ Since I started hacking with python a few months ago, I never stopped being amazed by its power. Wanna display you webcam video on a very simple GTK+ app? Less than one hundred lines, thanks to pygst (gstreamer) and pygtk! #!/usr/bin/env python import sys, os import pygtk, gtk, gobject import pygst pygst.require("0.10") import gst class GTK_Main: def __init__(self): window ... http://www.ndeschildre.net/2008/04/04/python-power/