CLUG is the Cape Linux Users Group, our local LUG here in Cape Town. Last week we attended the Futurex exhibition, which is one of the largest technology shows here in South Africa.
Problem was, it’s very expensive to hire some ground space at these shows. So what did CLUG do? We sent out an appeal […]
3 Days after the fact, but when you have lots of work you constantly have to re-prioritise
The past weekend we celebrated Software Freedom Day in Cape Town. It took place at Khayelitsha, which is one of the poorest areas in the city. It happened at a community center there called “the lookout point”. […]
A few months ago, there was a thread on the ubuntu-sounder list about Christian Ubuntu, and how some people felt that the idea of a Christian Ubuntu is offensive. Personally, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with having Christian Edition. If there’s derivatives for schools, gamers, and just about anything else, what’s wrong with having […]
Today I attended the first ever Cape Town Python Users Group Meeting (CTPUG). I didn’t attend the entire event, which is a pity because I missed a talk on Turbogears, which is possibly not all that bad since I decided to go with Django (time-wise I can’t really afford to change my mind […]
On October 31, I’m giving a talk at our local Linux Users’ Group on Ubuntu and its derivatives.
I thought of having an outline similar to the following:
Start with the history of Ubuntu - What, where, how and when
Discuss the services around it, launchpad, the Ubuntu community (fridge, planet, IRC, etc.)
Discuss how Kubuntu was born, […]
Tectonic is running a story on tuXlabs and its evolution to Inkululeku.
All the bits and pieces are coming together quite nicely, we still have a way to go, but I think we’ve had a real good start. July was especially difficult, since I had quite a bunch of tasks to do in the new […]
Earlier this year I blogged about some real nice Ubuntu stickers.
If you’re South African, you can now get even better Ubuntu stickers from the Frogfoot shop. The picture is a bit inacurate, since the brushed metal effect of the real stickers are horizontal, not vertical as on the rendered picture, but it’s real […]
Friday I handed in my resignation letter at the Shuttleworth Foundation. So did 8 other people who work with me. Sounds hectic? Well, it’s all on good terms, and there’s big excitement about it.
What’s happening? Well, some of the open source projects at the Foundation has approached the end of its funding cycle, and we’ve […]
I attempted two times before to blog about UDS Paris, but didn’t know where to start, so here’s take 3, trying to keep it simple this time.
In short, the summit was great. I met lots of great people there, like the good old Mr Edubuntu (aka ogra) and the LTSP developers (sbalneav and jammcq), and […]
Argentina became the first country in the world to have more women Debian Developers than men:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-women/2006/06/msg00078.html
Let’s hope that the Debian Women project continues to be successful, and get more contributors into the project, and that the Ubuntu Women will be equally successful!
Only a week after release, Xubuntu is receiving nearly as many hits as Kubuntu on Distrowatch.
I think it’s great to see a new Ubuntu based distribution climb so fast! I also think it’s great to see that more and more of the top distributions are Debian (and also more of them Ubuntu based), […]
16:45 < jsgotangco> jeezz my 4 year old just said “oh my god its ubuntu”