Calling designers and/or those with minute attention to detail: want to play your part in shaping Ubuntu 11.04? Of course you do, and here's how.
The non-profit HeliOS Project - which refurbishes old computers (with Linux) to give to disadvantaged kids in Austin and the Central Texas - has the chance to grab some much needed funding. And all you need to do to help is click a "Like" button.
Elephants and readers with a good memory may remember an 'ambient boot splash' proposal we featured at the end of October.
If you're going to be busy on Amazon over the festive period don't forget to use GNOME referral links. These links work like normal amazon links but instead of the shopping giant getting all your cash a slice goes to help keep GNOME developers warm and happy.
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A new ‘Linux counter’ initiative that aims to disprove press claims than Linux is used by less than 1% of the worlds desktop computer users has been launched.
A new mobile music streaming Android app from Ubuntu One has entered public beta testing. The app allows you to listen to music stored/synchronized in your Ubuntu One account ‘in the cloud’ directly on your […]
The founders of bookmark syncing service Xmarks are attempting to keep the service alive by introducing a $10/y subscription model.
Time is running out for an innovative new video editor inspired by collaborative distribution tools like bzr and git to gather enough ‘crowd-sourced’ funding to make it into reality.
Everyone's favourite alternative Nautilus get-up Nautilus-Elementary has opened its doors for translations on launchpad. If you'd love to see it supporting your language then why not help out? Details after the break.
The folks over at Wildfire games, the company behind the incredible open-source game 0.A.D are on the hunt for an Open Source development manager. Why? “We need someone to help facilitate and encourage open source […]
If I had to pick one horror story that I get messaged about the most, it would be the dreaded bootloader. “It’s missing” or “I have a black screen of death..” and some people edit […]
A Hebrew subset of the new Ubuntu font is in the making and scheduled to to be ready in time for Ubuntu 11.04 thanks to the initiative of Israeli web developer Tom Bigelajzen. His enthusiasm for […]
It’s been a little while since we last mentioned the simple & straightforward task application ‘Pytask‘ so i’m here with a small update and a bit of a favour… First up what can you look forward to […]
Bored? Nothing better to do? Why not help out Manu Järvinen who mailed us a plea for help on turning his rather swish BURG theme idea into a boot loading beauty. “I am a designer […]
OMG! OMG! OMG! We are close to releasing…. a beta. After porting the daemon to Mono with Chris Szikszoy (Docky fame) and with the support of David Siegel and Alex Launi (both from Do Fame […]
In a post to the Ubuntu-Art mailing list Canonical’s Matthew Nuzum has opened the call for this cycles ‘countdown banner’ submissions. A design already submitted by Immanuel Peratoner “As in past releases we’d like to […]
While on vacation this last month, I gathered up all the requests for Ubuntu help and advice that I have received over a year or so and decided I would attack them here by popularity. […]