iPad and the FSF

Oh FSF why do you make me embarrassed? Really I saw the article on ars about them protesting and I just said to myself “they have protested yourselves into obsolescence”. The flaw is they are protesting for something free and extremely positive but how they go about it is the opposite.
Do apple care its non [...]

The importance of awesome

Im going to plug a bunch of projects and stuff I like in this post so I hope you guys like it.
Shot of jaq is bloody awesome. Well us ubuntu people are a little bit biased here because its done by two people who make ubuntu awesome but still it is very cool. Not [...]

Gnome 3 world wide release parties

At the last Gnome marketing meeting an interesting idea came up. That was to have a ubuntu loco style release party for Gnome 3 this fall. The proposal is here, im sure sponsors are welcome.
I have to stress its a cross community effort so Ubuntu, Fedora, Open Suse, Open Solaris, Mint, Debian….etc everyone who uses [...]

Debunking Gnome 3 myths

Some people are slightly confused about what Gnome 3 actually is. The biggest myth is
Gnome Shell == Gnome 3
Actually its very far from the truth, in fact there is a lot of work that has nothing to do with user interface.
The second biggest myth is
Gnome will drop all support for Gnome-Panel
Actually it will be fairly [...]

The next Kernel Bug Day

Passing on a message from Leann on the Kernel team.

Hi All,
This is a friendly reminder that we’re starting up Kernel Bug Day’s
again for the new year. Don’t know what a Kernel Bug Day is [1]?
This is the perfect opportunity to find out what it’s all about.
The next Kernel Bug Day will be held Tues. [...]

Gnome activity journal

I blogged about zeitgeist a lot back last year so I thought id give a little blog post about gnome activity journal(formally gnome-zeitgeist) the old version looked a little bad but seif and the guys have done an awesome job with the new version. Ive been following the progress of the project and the code [...]

Simply better collaboration

Ive noticed over the ~2 years ive been contributing that we are big on collaboration but one thing I noticed was a slight lack in communication between the technical contributors and the non-technical contributers. Its not too bad but it could be a lot better in my opinion. Other than the report a bug option [...]