Author Archives: pleia2

Developer Membership Board vote results

By pleia2 | Published: 2011-03-06

The vote ended on 2011-02-14 as no official announcement of the vote results was done yet, I want to catch up on it. The result of the vote is: Emmet Hikory (persia) Michael Bienia (geser) Stéphane Graber (stgraber) Iain Lane (Laney) Makenzie Morgan (maco) Cody Somerville (cody_somerville) The current Developer Membership Board members are: Benjamin […]

Interview with Valorie Zimmerman

By pleia2 | Published: 2011-03-01

Elizabeth Krumbach: Please tell us a little about yourself. Valorie Zimmerman: I’m a writer, wife, mother and grandmother. Besides Free software and Free culture, social justice is important to me. Right now I’m finishing up the Amarok Handbook, which has been a year-long project. During the recent Google Code-In project, I mentored quite a few […]

Banshee In Natty To Ship Multiple Stores And Contribute To GNOME Foundation

By pleia2 | Published: 2011-02-24

Recently the Canonical Online Services team, led by Cristian Parrino, has been in discussions with the Banshee project to coordinate a suitable revenue share for the built-in Amazon store. Unfortunately, there were a few crossed wires, but a call today helped to clarify the position. For clarity, Cristian wanted to pass on the plan for […]

Ubuntu Wiki to be re-licensed to CC BY-SA

By pleia2 | Published: 2011-02-15

The license of content of the Ubuntu Wiki has always been publically listed as copyright Canonical Ltd. Working with the Ubuntu Community Council, Canonical has decided to transition the content in the Ubuntu Wiki to the the CC-BY-SA license. This license is a free culture license and is the same license used both by the […]

Debian 6.0.0, codename Squeeze, is out!

By pleia2 | Published: 2011-02-06

After two years of intense work, the Debian project has published a new stable release. You are welcome to read the full release announcement to get an overview of the changes, the installation manual if you are doing a fresh installation and the release notes before upgrading your systems. Choose your preferred installation media from […]