S06E23 – Edge of Ubuntu




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Summary: Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are back for the twenty-third episode of Season Six of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team! In this week’s show:- We take a look at what’s been happening in the news: UK government announced plans to introduce content filtering at ISP level here, here, and here… Google have announced a new Nexus 7 and a TV streaming dongle Android 4.3 has been released Digital Ocean hosting company has security problems Bradley Manning has been found guilty of 20 charges but not the most serious of ‘aiding the enemy’ Microsoft Surface sales figures have surfaced and they’re not that great Intel have released a Raspberry Pi-like computer We catch up with what’s happening in the Ubuntu community: Ubuntu forums were taken down after a security breach and then put back up again over a week later Canonical announced the Ubuntu Edge crowd-funding project with a target of $32,000,000 Mark Shuttleworth did a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) There’s a graph of pledges And Ubuntu Touch images are available for other devices already And we mention some events: XBMC HubFest – 24th August – Southampton, UK Campus Party - 2nd-7th September – The O2, London, UK Open Street Map conference - 6th-8th September - Aston University Business School Conference Centre, Aston Street, Birmingham, UK pycon UK – 20th-23rd September – Coventry, UK OggCamp13 - 19th-20th October – Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK – Get in touch with @oggcamp if you’d like to have an exhibition stand or suggest a speaker. Registration opens soon. We’ll be back in one week with an interview with Jon Spriggs and Jack Wearden who develop CampFireManager which we use for talk scheduling at OggCamp. In the meantime, send us your feedback! Please send your comments and suggestions to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org Join us on IRC in #ubuntu-uk-podcast on Freenode Leave a voicemail via phone: +44 (0) 203 298 1600, sip: podcast@sip.ubuntu-uk.org and skype: ubuntuukpodcast Follow our twitter feed http://twitter.com/uupc Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google Plus Leave us some segment ideas on the Etherpad