After wanting to attend Debconf for so long, things finally got real. No visa issues this time (Nicaragua is nice like that), tickets are booked… everything is ready! I’m excited to finally be able to attend one of these and...
Congratulations First off, congratulations to the Launchpad.net team for reaching bug #1000000. They’ve managed to build a huge platform that scales very well. Very few bug trackers live to that milestone and it’s amazing how they have managed to keep...
Greentown School Kindergarden iPads Earlier this year, I was a bit surprised to see that a school is planning to buy iPads for its entire Kindergarden. I’m interested to know how that went and how they’re using those devices. The...
I’m now an LTSP developer! I came across LTSP for the first time in 2003. Little did I know that I’d still be using it 9 years later, would attend two LTSP hackfesst in South West Harbor (Maine, US) and...
Scaleconf Cape Town 2012 Thursday and Friday I attended Scaleconf, a local conference on scaling web services and other things. I really enjoyed the talks that covered the human parts of working with technology and how to improve...
Last weekend I spent some time with the LTSP folks at the annual LTSP hackfest called “By The Sea” (or BTS for short). This was my second BTS. It was well attended and these were some of the items that...
Great UDS This week I attended the Ubuntu Developer Summit for Ubuntu 12.04 in Orlando, Florida in the USA. I have so much to say about it that I don’t know where to begi n. This was only the...
Some updates form the world of Jonathan… LTSP BTS2011: Yesterday Marc, Stéphane and myself drove down to Southwest Harbour in Maine for the LTSP By The Sea 2011 hackfest. It wasn’t a long road trip, but it’s been fun, we...
A Gnome summit just 2 hours away from where I live? Awesome! A few weeks ago I noticed that the Gnome summit that usually takes place in Boston is happening in Montréal this year! Being a Gnome user for more...
I’m spending my day at the Ubuntu Global Jam in Montréal. What surprised me most is that after all these years, it’s the first global jam I’ve actually attended. Canonical provided the venue and some yummy refreshments. I managed to...
I woke up this morning to the notification that my first ever Debian upload (sponsored by Vagrant Cascadian) has been accepted into the archives and along with it, my first Debian bug fix! It’s admittingly not the most exciting package,...
This is just awesome and surprisingly fast! A Linux kernel running under an emulator written in JavaScript:
Edubuntu at UDS Today we had a session at the Ubuntu Developer Summit at Budapest covering the work in Edubuntu for the next release cycle. Not all of the items are assigned to someone yet (especially with the documentation), so...
Current LDM Theme in Debian LDM is the display manager used on LTSP clients. In Debian, the upstream LTSP theme is used which looks like this: It’s rather bland and outdated since it doesn’t even use the current LTSP logo....
Some people seem to just love talking about history. I prefer making it! Here’s something a bit more light to distract you from all the history lessons currently on Planet Ubuntu… Current Edubuntu Wallpaper The current Edubuntu wallpaper has served...
