Ralph Janke
Software Freedom Day in Kitchener/Waterloo, Ontario
It is again the time of the year when we celebrate software freedom day!
This year the Software Freedom Day 2010 will occur in the Kwartlab. This event is a cooperation between Ubuntu Canada (Kitchener/Waterloo Chapter), KWLUG and the Working Centre.
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Ubuntu stackexchange site will continue as it is
The Ubuntu stackexchange site will continue as it is, as its own entity, in parallel with the other site for Unix and Linux questions. Thanks for all the support so far from everybody who participated. We have now more than 2000 Users and coming close to 1000 questions of which 95% have been answered.
Please continue to help this site growing and make it a good place for Ubuntu users to find answers!
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php5-mcrypt and php5-imap packages are now available for php5.2
I have finally managed to fix the problems with the installation of php5-mcrypt and php5-imap from my repository. However, it needs to be noted that the versions of those packages are 5.2.6, hence the pinning in the /etc/apt/preferences file must be done accordingly!
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Ubuntu Beta is released
The Ubuntu Beta releases are out and need testing. For Kubuntu users the announcement is here. Testing can easily be done with testdrive. Please help to make the final release better by testing this beta!
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Ubuntu Hour in Waterloo, Ontario on September 1, 2010
As Ubuntu Hour is starting to be a regular occurrence in the Waterloo region, the next one will be happening on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 8pm. The location will be Whole Lotta Gelata, probably a good place in this current heat wave in Southern Ontario :)
Ubuntu Hour is an event which is very good for anyone to come and to ask questions about Ubuntu, exchange tips and tricks, and have a whole lotta fun. This particular event, we also will be talking about the upcoming Software Freedom Day (September 18, 2010) which we will organize an event which will be happening in the Kwartzlab. So if you have interest in this event, or even better, would like to contribute in the organization of the Software Freedom Day, please feel free to come to the Ubuntu Hour this week!
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Global Jam in Kitchener, Ontario
On Saturday, 28th August 2010 1:00pm - 9:00pm at the kwartzlab, The Kitchener/Waterloo Chapter of Ubuntu Canada will participate in the Global Jam. Everybody is invited. We will have lots of fun, socializing and will learn and teach how everybody can help and contribute to the Ubuntu project.
If you are in Quebec, please look at our friends event in that part of Canada!
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Ubuntu LAN Party at Kwartzlab was a lot of fun!
Kwartzlab got a new type of event which has been beta tested early this month: The Ubuntu LAN Party! Eric organised this first event, which remained solely within the realms of kwatzlab and gave the kwartlab members the privilege to attend this premiere.
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Why the two stackexchange sites Ubuntu and Unix should not be merged!
http://stackexchange.com, famous for http://stackoverflow.com, http://serverfault.com and http://superuser.com has recently decided to create community proposed and driven Q&A sites. Interestingly, this has lead to two proposals that have both gone into public beta now, http://ubuntu.stackexchange.com for Ubuntu questions, and http://unix.stackexchange.com for Unix/Linux questions.
The Ubuntu proposal went in almost record time through all the proposal stages, while the the Unix/Linux site did not. This caused quite a stir. Miguel de Icaza does not appreciate the efforts that Ubuntu performs in the Linux community. Miguel and people like him are exactly the reason why we need both sites.
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Building a Ubuntu website on Stackexchange
Currently a lot of fantastic people from the Ubuntu Community are working to get an Ubuntu Q&A website a la stackoverflow created on stack exchange. We have already breezed through the definition phase and now need people who are committing to ask questions or answer them in the beta phase (in particular during the private beta phase that will last 7 days.
Therefore please, if you can, commit here that we can go into the next phase.
Thanks a lot!
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Kubuntu Hug Day 27 May 2010
Announcing This Week's Kubuntu Bug Day Target - Kdepim - Thursday, May 27, 2010
This week's Bug Day target is kdepim!
* 131 New bugs need a hug
* 5 Incompletes bugs
* 24 Confirmed bugs need a review
Bookmark it, add it to your calendars, turn over those egg-timers!
* Thursday, 27 May 2010
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PHP5.2 for lucid ppa
Drupal and a lot of community modules do not work yet 100% with PHP 5.3. Therefore, in order to make it easier for any drupal administrators who wish to run the ubuntu lucid server, I have created a ppa that allows easy use of php5.2 packages that have been compiled under lucid: https://edge.launchpad.net/~txwikinger/+archive/php5.2
Rules for pinning this version are provided in the description of the ppa.
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