the flying squirrel

Ubuntu Waterloo is hosting our third Ubuntu Global Jam, Saturday, April 2 at Kwartzlab. The Global Jam is a worldwide event to make Ubuntu better. Ubuntu 11.04, the Natty Narwhal will be released in a little over a month and the Global Jam give the community (that’s us) a chance to help find bugs, triage [...]

A couple days ago, I gave a presentation on Clutter (the API for building animated graphical user interfaces for touchscreens and the like) to KWLUG. Here’s a shorter, screencast version of the presentation: The slides themselves were created in python with Clutter. You can pull the source down from launchpad with bzr branch lp:~dscassel/+junk/clutter-presentation/ if [...]

From Ubuntu LAN Party Kwartzlab has been talking about throwing a LAN party for a while now. We’ve got power, a network and drinks, so it’s ideal. Eric and I got to talking, though, and with the Ubuntu stuff in Waterloo centered largely around Kwartzlab it would be extra awesome if it was a free [...]

From Ubuntu On Saturday, we got together with some of our friends from KWLUG to hold a release party for Ubuntu 10.04: The Lucid Lynx. It was great! We had pizza and cake and deviled eggs and free software. Photos after the jump.

I’ve been trying to get more into Ubuntu lately. Not just running it, but getting involved. I like Ubuntu. I like the software; I like the ethos; I like the community; I like how it’s catching on with people. There’s lots of things to like. I haven’t been this excited and enthusiastic about a computing [...]

So me and some folks at kwartzlab (as well as the KW Linux Users Group) are getting together on Thursday to celebrate the release of Ubuntu 9.10, the Karmic Koala. Details at the Kwartzlab site if you’re interested in attending. I run Ubuntu at home on all my computers now. Well… nearly all. It’s come [...]