Author Archives: pleia2

Cool Projects That Need Your Help

By pleia2 | Published: 2011-06-03

I just wanted to highlight a few awesome projects going on that are looking for help and could provide a rocking place to get involved for coders, testers, translators, docs writers and more. Of course there are many other projects that need help, but I just wanted to highlight these few near and dear to […]

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) End of Life

By pleia2 | Published: 2011-06-02

“Time brings all things to pass.” – Aeschylus Ubuntu announced its 6.06 Server release 5 years ago, on June 1, 2006. For the LTS Server releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 5 years. The maintenance period has now ended for Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server. Ubuntu 6.06 LTS was […]

Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) end-of-life reached on April 30, 2011.

By pleia2 | Published: 2011-05-26

This note is just to confirm that the support period for Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) formally ended on May 1, 2011 and Ubuntu Security Notices no longer includes information or updated packages for Ubuntu 9.10. The supported upgrade path from Ubuntu 9.10 is via Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx). Instructions and caveats for the upgrade […]

Interview with Jessica Ledbetter

By pleia2 | Published: 2011-04-22

Elizabeth Krumbach: Please tell us a little about yourself. Jessica Ledbetter: Hello everyone, I’m Jessica Ledbetter (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/jledbetter). I’ve been a web developer for a Department of Energy lab in Virginia for about 10 years, and I code primarily in Java and ColdFusion, plus freelance in PHP. I was the first in my family to go […]

New EMEA and Americas Membership Board Members

By pleia2 | Published: 2011-04-05

Back in January the Community Council did a call for restaffing of a few vacated positions on the Regional Membership Boards. Today I’m happy to announce the new members of these boards. EMEA Iulian Udrea – https://launchpad.net/~iulian Americas Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre – https://launchpad.net/~mathieu-tl Penelope Stowe – https://launchpad.net/~pendulum Congratulations and welcome to these new board members! Originally […]