Summary: Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, Alan Pope, and Laura Cowen are back in Studio A for the sixteenth episode of Season Five of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team! In this week’s show:- We talk about fixing the website countdown to our live shows so that it’s easier to read, playing with Sugru and Nikki and the Robots, working on a talk for Skycon, and going to the circus! We also reveal the winner of our competition and discuss the suggestions we received on how to make Ubuntu better, and we discuss the shopping lens bru-ha-ha. And a special mention for Albert Islava who sent us a mockup of his suggestion. In the news this week:- Github went down but it’s back up again… Google might be evil… Rackspace are sued for patent infringement… Wikipedia contributors breach the code of conduct… New pay-what-you-want games: Humble Bundle and Nikki and the Robots… Vivaldi tablet manufacturers seeking new hardware… And events-wise we have… Skycon – 6th-7th October – University of Limerick HackManchester – 27th-28th October – Museum of Science and Industry as part of the Manchester Science Festival Victoria Pritchard and Robin Catling dust off another audio recording of an episode of ‘Tomorrow’s Technology Today’ from the Herbert Maxwell Fosdyke Curmudgeon Memorial Sound Archive. We mention some Ubuntu related news in the bit-about-Ubuntu:- Community winners of the Ubuntu App Showdown are announced… Quantal Quetzal Beta 2 lands soon… Canonical is a Platinum member of the OpenStack foundation… Help wanted to build documentation portal for Ubuntu… Ubuntu’s secure boot will use Grub2… And nothing happened in the world that’s Not-about-Ubuntu (apparently). And we have your feedback. Comments and suggestions are welcomed to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org Leave us some segment ideas on the Etherpad 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
