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Changing direction

Today I left Userful, as I found their current management issues were not worth my time. What will I be doing over the next several months? I don't really know...

Get your free pass to Ubuntu Live. Just tell me story first...

The wonderful people at O'Reilly and I have cooked up a little scheme to get one of you lovely people a pass to Ubuntu Live, for absolutely no cost. The catch? You have to write me a story about why you want to go. And why would you want to go?

Well, for starters, you can listen to Jono talk about herding cats and by cats, he means us, or how a small law office uses to Ubuntu from end to end, or how Asterisk loves Ubuntu. Of course, there is lots more on the schedule, not to mention the drinking BOFs every evening...

So drop me an email and tell me all about why you want to go to Ubuntu Live.

So what exactly will be in Gutsy?

This is always the question around this time. While nothing has been set in stone, you can see the specs that are being considered on the Launchpad page for Gutsy.

I should note that this doesn't mean that everything on that page is going to be done. Any specs marked deferred mean that the implementer couldn't get them done for Feature Freeze, in this case August 16th, as can be seen on the Gutsy Release Schedule. You can look at the equivalent Feisty, Edgy or Dapper pages to get an idea of what these pages look like after release.

And, Steve, the page you are looking for is the Displayconfig-gtk spec

Canadians: Help stop Microsoft's OpenXML from becoming a standard

Chani on Planet KDE has pointed out the that the Standards Council of Canada needs some education, as it is seeking to have the OpenXML spec defined as an ISO standard. So, Canadians, step up and leave a comment about how they have never even considered OpenDocument.

Do not adjust your orbit: The family domination of Ubuntu continues

Seems my older brother has finally hit planet...

Home again

After some 30 hours of travel, I am back. Seems that cancelling one portion of my travel (Madrid to Sevilla) would have meant cancelling it all, so I ended up catching the last AVE train back to Sevilla, arriving at 00:45 and then hanging out in the airport for 6 hours until my 07:25 flight back to Madrid. This was made all more fun by the fact that the Sevilla airport closes between 02:00 and 05:00...

All in all, the trip home was a great deal less painful than the trip out to Spain. The Spanish security was altogether more sensible and friendly, the Spanish customs officer actually thanked me for coming to Spain and Spanish airports are generally clean and fairly fast. In fact, Spanish transport generally rocks. Trains are clean and on time; the AVE will actually refund a portion of your money if you are only 5 minutes late. If only North American transport worked as well...

Still travelling

As I write this I am in a hostel in Madrid, enjoying the fine Spanish weather and culture for a few more days after UDS, which, incidentally, rocked. Thanks to all the Canonical folks for putting it on and Jono especially for saying yes (no, not in that way).

However, please don't expect any speedy return on emails until the 21st or so of May.

Come share your story with the Marketing Team

The Ubuntu community does a great deal of amazing thing everyday. However, the Marketing team really only hears about a tiny amount of this. We would love to hear more, so there is a new way to do just that: Drop us an email at ubuntu-marketing-submissions@lists.ubuntu.com and tell us the great stuff you are doing!

8 May 2007 (updated 8 May 2007 at 17:28 UTC) »
Rumours, rumours

Jono, let's just say I had a wild night with Gillian Anderson

Civilizing air travel: More power plugs and free wifi

Turns out SeaTac's South Terminal has free wifi. I cannot tell you how much better this makes me feel, being able to chat with A while streaming Internet radio.

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