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Party 5

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Ubuntu QC invite à un petit 5 à 9 bien informel pour se rencontrer, discuter et surtout comme prétexte pour partager une bonne bière, ou autre ce jeudi 19 avril, à l’occasion de la sortie officielle de la prochaine version d’Ubuntu Linux.

Quand: Jeudi 19 Avril, 17h à 21h
Où:Bar St-Sulpice 3ème étage, 1680, rue Saint-Denis Montréal, QC H2X 3K6 – Téléphone: (514) 844-9458

Le St-Sulpice est un point d’accès Île-sans-fil, quel heureux hasard 😉

Plusieurs employés du centre global de soutien technique de Canonical à Montréal (dont moi même) seront de la partie, nous offrirons des CD ou DVD de Feisty et des autocollants à ceux qui en voudront. Je veux préciser aussi que ce n’est pas une présence « corpo » officielle, d’ailleurs je vais devoir prendre congé (communautaire) pour y être.

 
Ubuntu Planet, Ubuntu, GNU/Linux

The Codebreakers transcript released – help wanted for subtitles

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Remember The Codebreakers: A BBC World Documentary on FOSS and Development ? Well, after many months and a few emails nicely asking for it, the Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme have sent me their original transcript for the documentary 40 minute version, licensed under a Creative Commons BY licence.

The main purpose for me was to produce subtitles in French, but there’s been interest in the Colibri list for Colombian FLOSS users to do it in spanish too, so I asked again and got the file today. It’s an easy but tedious and long job. We have to first produce an appropriate English subtitles file, then translate it – an dof course test it.

If you want to get the transcript and / or feel like helping producing an English subtitles file, please visit the subtitling project’s wiki page. Pass the word around!

Update: the links had moved, I just corrected them (as of July 12 2007)

 
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Ubuntu BumpTop – You know you want it

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So I missed DemoCamp Montreal again, though JP had invited me… 🙁 I was busy spreading some Ubuntu love elsewhere (more on that later).

It seems he found BumpTop to be really nice. I remember seeing a demo about this some time ago, not sure where (online). They’re actually implementing it and hiring to ge it done. Come on! You know you want this running on Ubuntu 🙂 Can’t we sneak someone in there ?

 
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Dell Linux survey down ? Try their blog.

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For the past few weeks I have been setting some facts straight about the numbers and rumors about Linux & Dell in different lists, it’s not secret there’s big interest in Ubuntu being certified and/or pre-installed on Dell hardware. Today to my surprise Dell is asking for more feedback via a new survey, but it seems down 🙁 I’d suggest anyone interested to read and comment their blog entry about it.

 
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Interface for printer setup tools to query former LinuxPrinting.org database is available now

The recently created Linux Foundation site has announced that an interface for printer setup tools to query the database and to find driver packages is available now.

I believe I have a pretty good « new nice stuff » radar here but this one doesn’t seem to be under Ubuntu’s belt yet. Are there any distributions supporting this soon ? Ah, I sense we’re going to be very spoiled with new hardware support and features this year in Gnu/Linux land 🙂