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Mark Johnson and Tony Whitmore are joined by guest presenters Alan Bell and Andy Piper in Studio A for the twelfth episode of Season Five of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

In this week’s show:-

• We talk about making a Raspberry Pi case out of Lego, seeing the Reduced Shakespeare Company, fondling one’s slab and going to the Olympic Opening Ceremony.
• We talk about Andy’s experiences at OSCON.
  • Tim O’Reilly’s keynote
  • Simon Phipps’ announcement about OSI
  • Mark Shuttleworth’s closing keynote
• We recap our competition to win an EcoPC – make sure you send us your entry to  competition@ubuntu-uk.org by 13th August 2012.
• We interview Jonathan Nadeau from the Accessible Computing Foundation and talk about their upcoming fundraising event.
• In the news this week:-
  • Microsoft slip up
  • Valve step up
  • Ubisoft slip up
  • Tesco slip up
• And events-wise we have…
  • OggCamp – 18th-19th August – Liverpool, thanks to our lovely sponsors Bytemark and hosts Liverpool John Moores University.
  • Young Rewired State
• Victoria Pritchard and Robin Catling dust off another audio recording of an episode of ‘Tomorrow’s Technology Today’ from the Herbert Maxwell Fosdyke Curmudgeon Memorial Sound Archive.
• We mention some Ubuntu related news in the bit-about-Ubuntu:-
  • Quantal Alpha 3 is released
  • Integration of web apps with Ubuntu
  • Quickly needs a reboot
  • The Ubuntu forums need some help

  And in the Not-about-Ubuntu we cover

  • GNOME loses its way
  • Unity makes its way onto Fedora

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Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, Laura Cowen, and The Big Mixing Desk are back together in Studio A for the eleventh episode of Season Five of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

In this week’s show:-

• We talk about rainy holidays, photo-processing, playing Theme Hospital on Ubuntu, playing Final Fantasy VII, and buying a VT105.

• We discuss some of the ideas sent in by listeners for our Raspberry Pi competition (including this video entry from Andrea Lobo) and we announce the winner (but you’ll have to listen to the show to find out who!)
• We announce our new competition to win an EcoPC – make sure you send us your entry to competition@ubuntu-uk.org by 13th August 2012.
• We have a Hot Topic: Should we welcome proprietary software on linux?
• In the news this week:-
  • Raspberry Pi lifts limits…
  • New CEO for Yahoo!…
  • Microsoft Windows shell vulnerability…
  • EU investigate a browser choice breach in Windows 7…
  • China’s largest smartphone retailer to distribute Meego handsets…
• And events-wise we have…
  • Ubuntu UK BBQ – Saturday 28th July – Farnham, Surrey.
  • OggCamp – 18th-19th August – Liverpool, thanks to our lovely sponsors Bytemark and hosts Liverpool John Moores University. Book the hotel – 20 rooms left!
  • Electromagnetic Field camping festival – Friday 31st August-Sunday 2nd September – Milton Keynes.
  • Ohio Linux Fest 2012
• Victoria Pritchard and Robin Catling dig up another audio recording of an episode of ‘Tomorrow’s Technology Today’ from the Herbert Maxwell Fosdyke Curmudgeon Memorial Sound Archive.
• We mention some Ubuntu related news in the bit-about-Ubuntu:-
  • Dell developing Ubuntu-powered ultrabook…
  • More compact session menu in Ubuntu 12.10…
  • Voting for the Ubuntu App Showdown has started…
  • Weekly blog posts about the Ubuntu TV Project…
• And in Not-about-Ubuntu:-
  • Centos 6.3 released…

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Alan Pope & Mark Johnson (with the spirit of Tony Whitmore and Laura Cowen egging us on via IRC) move to Studio B for the tenth episode of Season Five of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

Apologies for the sub-standard audio quality on this episode. Alan was at the controls. That is all. Normal service will be resumed when Tony gets back from holiday

In this week’s show:-

• We talk about writing Unity Lenses and ASP pages.
• We review the games available via the Humble Bundle and via the Ubuntu Software Centre.
• In the news this week:-
  • WebOS is out, no really this time…
  • Ding Dong the witch flash is dead…
  • FSF analyse the secure boot proposals…
  • WINE is FINE…
• We interview Michael Hall about the Ubuntu App Developer Showdown.
• And events-wise we have…
  • …the one and only…OggCamp – 18th-19th August – Liverpool, thanks to our lovely sponsors Bytemark and hosts Liverpool John Moores University.
• Victoria Pritchard and Robin Catling dig up another audio recording of an episode of ‘Tomorrow’s Technology Today’ from the Herbert Maxwell Fosdyke Curmudgeon Memorial Sound Archive.
• We mention some Ubuntu related news in the bit-about-Ubuntu:-
  • Mono enabling Ubuntu gaming…
  • Testing Testing Twelve Oh Four…
  • Mark Shuttleworth chat on the reg…
  • Asus to ship Ubuntu ‘netbooks’…
• And in Not-about-Ubuntu:-
  • Jon Masters gives an arm and a two legs for an ARM server…
• Finally we remind everone about our competition to give away one of a brand new highly sought after Raspberry Pis. Listen to the show to find out how to win a Raspberry Pi of your very own. Make sure you send us your to competition@ubuntu-uk.org entry by 16th July 2012.

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Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are back for the ninth episode of Season Five of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

Note: We’re no longer providing ‘low-fi’ Ogg and MP3 versions of the show. To reduce our workload, disk space and insanity the show is now only available in high quality MP3 and Ogg format for your listening pleasure.

In this week’s show:-

• We talk about the Surrey & Hants hackspace, going to see The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy live radio show, going to Paris, trying the Humble Bundle.
• We discuss the Novacut project with founder Jason DeRose and we discuss the Raspberry Pi with each other.
• We even set a competition to give away one of Alan’s Pis. Listen to the show to find out how to win a Raspberry Pi of your very own. Make sure you send us your entry by 16th July 2012.
• In the news this week:-
  • Prize for Linus…
  • Skype V4 for Linux…
  • Nokia abandons Linux project…
  • Microsoft adopts Linux in the cloud…
  • Someone on the Internet sues some charities…
  • Five meeeelion dollars…
• And events-wise we have…
  • …the one and only…OggCamp – 18th-19th August – Liverpool, thanks to our lovely sponsors Bytemark and hosts Liverpool John Moores University.
  • OpenRightsGroup offer Censorship and Surveillance Training – 20th June – 7th July.
  • Raspberry Jam at Nottingham Hackspace – 3rd July.
• Robin Catling and Victoria Pritchard dig up another audio recording of an episode of ‘Tomorrow’s Technology Today’ from the Herbert Maxwell Fosdyke Curmudgeon Memorial Sound Archive.
• We mention some Ubuntu related news in the bit-about-Ubuntu:-
  • App Developer contest to win goodies…
  • Review of Intel SSDs on Ubuntu…
  • Dell opens more stores in China and India…with Ubuntu…
  • Lots of gamers seem to run Linux…
  • And in Not-about-Ubuntu:-
    • SUSE release delayed…
• And finally, we have your feedback, including:-
  • Listener Imran Chaudry’s project for you to try.
  • Bytemark’s quest for fun network games to play on their gaming rig at OggCamp.

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Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are back for the eighth episode of Season Five of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

Note: We’re no longer providing ‘low-fi’ Ogg and MP3 versions of the show. To reduce our workload, disk space and insanity the show is now only available in high quality MP3 and Ogg format for your listening pleasure.

In this week’s show:-

• We talk about upgrading to Quantal Quetzal, upgrading a router, updating a blog theme, and going to a beer festival.
• We interview Elizabeth Krumbach from the California LoCo team, Ubuntu Women, and the Community Council. And we interview Charles “Dr. Chuck” Severance at the Dev8eD conference.
  

  Dr Chuck's tattoos

• In the news this week:-
  • Humble Bundle V now available on Ubuntu Software Centre…
  • Oracle finds out you can’t copyright APIs…
  • Mozilla resume producing a browser for Mark and Tony’s phones…
  • Facebook have some problems…
  • Microsoft have some bigger problems…
  • Kickstarting open-sourcing software…will it work?
• And events-wise we have…
  • …the one and only…OggCamp – 18th-19th August – Liverpool
• Robin Catling and Victoria Pritchard dig up another audio recording of an episode of ‘Tomorrow’s Technology Today’ from the Herbert Maxwell Fosdyke Curmudgeon Memorial Sound Archive.
• We have a new Command Line Lurrrrve…
  

  rmadison

• We mention some Ubuntu related news in the bit-about-Ubuntu:-
  • Canonical is at Computex…
  • David Wonderly clarifies the Kubuntu position…
  • Ubuntu Vancouver have written a ‘getting started’ guide to Unity…
  • Alan isn’t the only foolish one to be playing with btrfs…
  • Hints that Ubuntu OS for smartphones might be with us next year…
• And in Not-about-Ubuntu:-
  • Fedora will pay Microsoft to be able to install on Windows 8 hardware…

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Alan Pope is back with Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen for the seventh episode of Season Five of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

Note: We’re no longer providing ‘low-fi’ Ogg and MP3 versions of the show. To reduce our workload, disk space and insanity the show is now only available in high quality MP3 and Ogg format for your listening pleasure.

In this week’s show:-

• We talk about getting a Raspberry Pi, taking photos of parents, reading on a Kindle, and playing Tiberium Alliances from the Ubuntu Software Centre.
• We discuss the recent Ubuntu Developer Summit (aka UDS) and we interview Jason Warner, Engineering Manager at Canonical.
• In the news this week:-
  • Chrome is going for gold…
  • Minority Report in reality?…
  • Microsoft attempts to be so.cl…
  • Free laptops for students…
  • Kernel news…
  • Competitor to Raspberry Pi…
• And events-wise we have…
  • Surrey & Hampshire Hackspace (who met in a pub in Farnham while we were broadcasting live)
  • NHS Hackday – 26th-27th May – London
  • Bitcoin 2012 – 15th-16th September – London
  • And of course…OggCamp – 18th-19th August – Liverpool
• Robin Catling and Victoria Pritchard dig up another audio recording of an episode of ‘Tomorrow’s Technology Today’ from the Herbert Maxwell Fosdyke Curmudgeon Memorial Sound Archive.
• We mention some Ubuntu related news in the bit-about-Ubuntu:-
  • Invitation-only mailing list for Unity…
  • New design for the Ubuntu forums…
  • bit.trip.runner joins the Ubuntu Software Centre…
  • It’s all about games…
  • Backing up your encryption passphrase…
• And in Not-about-Ubuntu:-
  • Fedora schedule delayed…
• Finally we have your feedback.

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Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are Alan-less for the sixth episode of Season Five of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

Note: We’re no longer providing ‘low-fi’ Ogg and MP3 versions of the show. To reduce our workload, disk space and insanity the show is now only available in high quality MP3 and Ogg format for your listening pleasure.

In this week’s show:-

• We talk about going to the dentist, upgrading to 12.04 and running Unity, and getting a Kindle.
• Alan, our man in Oakland CA, interviews Thomas Bushell from Google, and Michael Hall and David Planella from the Canonical Community Team.
• We review the EcoPC N.1A from Eco Technologies.
• In the news this week:-
  • Blocking The Pirate Bay…
  • Learning to hack…
  • Blocking porn…
  • Oracle vs Google…
• And in OggCamp related news, the official website is now live!
• And Bitcoin 2012 is on 15th-16th September in Russell Square, London.

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Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are joined by Stunt Alan (aka Alan Bell) for the fifth episode of Season five of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

Note: We’re no longer providing ‘low-fi’ Ogg and MP3 versions of the show. To reduce our workload, disk space and insanity the show is now only available in high quality MP3 and Ogg format for your listening pleasure.

In this week’s show:-

• We talk about installing Ubuntu with eyes closed, seeing both halves of 90s duo Lee & Herring in different times and spaces, living out of B&Bs and listening to LUGRadio.
• We interview Jorge Castro of Canonical about juju and we talk about the new Ubuntu LTS release, Precise Pangolin (or 12.04 to give it its boring name).
• In the news this week:-
  • Rumours Valve Software are porting their games to Linux…
  • Lightworks will be released at the end of May…
  • Microsoft have announced the creation of Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc…
  • People read a lot into Canonical job ads…
  • Original Prince of Persia code found on
  • Open source driver for Qualcomm Snapdragon GPU…
• And in OggCamp related news, the official website will be going live soon (in about a week from now…yes now…no, now…yes, that’s right…now!).

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Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, Alan Pope, and Laura Cowen return again with the fourth episode of season five of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

Note: We’re no longer providing ‘low-fi’ Ogg and MP3 versions of the show. To reduce our workload, disk space and insanity the show is now only available in high quality MP3 and Ogg format for your listening pleasure.

In this week’s show:-

• We talk about about what we’ve been doing including buying nothing at an auction, turning 40, upsetting small children, going to a wedding and watching Blake’s 7.
• We interview Jonathan Riddell about the news that Kubuntu has a new sponsor, Blue Systems.
• In a slow news week:-
  • License changes…
  • Code merges…
  • and more license changes…
• However, in BILLION News:-
  • $1 BILLION!
  • $1 BILLION!!
  • ~$1.59 BILLION!!!!
  • $1 BILLION!!!!!!
• And we have some OggCamp related news!
  • The Official hotel for OggCamp 2012 is the Britannia Adelphi City Centre hotel (in Liverpool)
  • Call +44 (0) 151 709 7200 and ask for the delightful Jackie Carter and mention OggCamp!
  • Yes! That’s right! Pick up the phone and speak to a real human when booking for this awesome event!
  • Rooms are £35 per person per night based on 2 people sharing a twin or double, single rooms also available at £60 per person, per night

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Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, Alan Pope, and Laura Cowen are back for the third episode of the new season of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

Note: We’re no longer providing ‘low-fi’ Ogg and MP3 versions of the show. To reduce our workload, disk space and sanity the show is now only available in high quality MP3 and Ogg format for your listening pleasure.

In this week’s show:-

• We talk about about what we’ve been doing: Testing Unity, attending the official Doctor Who Convention in Cardiff, feeling guilty about wanting a closed, proprietary, Kindle…then getting over it, installing CyanogenMod on an HTC phone, and restoring from a backup (unlike this time last year).
• We interview Richard Hughes about many things, including GNOME power management and colour management, and his personal project ColorHug.
• In the news:-
  • Android forks back…
  • A new Humble Bundle released…
  • KDEnlive reach target in ahead of time…
  • Nouveau’s in sync with NVIDIA.
  • Blackboard acquires two commercial Moodle companies…
• And some events:-
  • Ohio Linux Fest – Columbus, Ohio – 28th-30th September
  • Barcamp Canterbury – University of Kent, Canterbury – 28th-29th April
  • Ubuntu UK Release Party – Bar Soho, London – 26th April
  • OggCamp 12!
    • Art & Design Academy, Liverpool John Moore University, Liverpool
    • 18th-19th August
    • Details of speakers, accommodation, extreme ironing 2.0 to follow
• Robin Catling and Victoria Pritchard dig up another audio recording of an episode of ‘Tomorrow’s Technology Today’ from the Herbert Maxwell Fosdyke Curmudgeon Memorial Sound Archive.
• We mention some Ubuntu related news in the bit-about-Ubuntu:-
  • Mark Shuttleworth blogs…
  • Do geeks dream of Ubuntu desktops?
  • WUBI wemoved…
  • KDE’s lives…
  • Ubuntu User Survey results are in…
  • Photograph winners announced for 12.04…
• And in Not-about-Ubuntu:-
  • H.264 video decoding in Mozilla browsers…
• Finally we have your feedback.

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