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Just For Learning: an online classroom from Ubuntu Nederland

12 January 2012, 10:51 by Sense Egbert Hofstede

Since it is almost that time of the year again when the Ubuntu Developer Week will start, I would like to introduce you to nice tool developed by a team in the Dutch Ubuntu community: Just For Learning. Very much … Continue reading →

A community needs something to do

6 October 2011, 13:27 by Sense Egbert Hofstede

Reading Amber Graner’s post about Tuesday’s meeting of the Community Council, I recognised a feeling that I also had when I stopped being an active member of the community in January this year. At that time I felt depleted of … Continue reading →

Making reporting bugs harder: desirable?

3 August 2011, 18:19 by Sense Egbert Hofstede

When I started writing this post, the latest bug report on Launchpad was bug #820459. That’s right, since the start of the Ubuntu project there have been 820,459 bugs reported on Launchpad and its Ubuntu Bugzilla predecessor. Though it includes … Continue reading →

Ubuntu needs the GNOME 3 project, all of it

25 July 2011, 22:06 by Sense Egbert Hofstede

Watching the news of Apple’s release of OS X Lion and the cheering reviews that followed, the huge quality of what we are up against becomes very clear once more. If you look at the operating system that Apple is … Continue reading →

Hooking your guitar on PulseAudio: out-of-the-box easy! (with PCM2904)

21 June 2011, 12:34 by Sense Egbert Hofstede

Yesterday I bought myself a shiny new toy: a Midiplus Audiolink. With this USB-device you can connect your guitar to your computer. (According to lsusb the chip is a ‘Texas Instruments Japan PCM2904 Audio Codec’.) I may not have an … Continue reading →

GNOME 3: configuration wish granted

9 April 2011, 12:56 by Sense Egbert Hofstede

Almost two and a half year ago GNOME 3 was in a very early state and most plans still had to be drawn up. At that time there was an interesting meme going on at Planet GNOME in which people … Continue reading →

The difference between local communities and local teams

5 April 2011, 19:35 by Sense Egbert Hofstede

The official directory of Ubuntu’s Locos goes under the name ‘Ubuntu Local Community Team Directory‘. This neatly covers both names that are frequently used to denote the different types of groups that are locally active for Ubuntu: local communities and … Continue reading →

Localisation for the USA, necessary too

3 April 2011, 14:21 by Sense Egbert Hofstede

By convention the default locale of all applications is US English. This is of course very imperialistic and evil and the Americans are indeed forcing their culture upon the rest of the world. But in the end we need to … Continue reading →

Canonical and GNOME: the Atlantic chasm?

13 March 2011, 20:55 by Sense Egbert Hofstede

While contemplating the tensions between Canonical/Ubuntu and GNOME that a lot of people have been blogging about I just thought had an insight. I have thought of what we are observing here as a clash of cultures before, but merely … Continue reading →

The uselessness of being the better person

11 March 2011, 20:59 by Sense Egbert Hofstede

If you’re the only true follower of the philosophy you promote, if you are the only person who is true to the spirit of your morally better culture, if others are treating you wrong but you treat them right, then … Continue reading →

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