Reflections on being an Ubuntu Universe Contributor

meta = {'category': Ubuntu, 'date': Mon 01 June 2009}

Last week I made the big leap from “contributor” to “developer.” At the most recent MOTU-Council meeting, my application to become a Master of the Universe was approved!

Now, I want to take a minute and think about the Ubuntu Universe Contributor (aka Ubuntu Contributing Developers) program, how we …

“Because humans need Oxygen.”

meta = {'category': Ubuntu, 'date': Sat 30 May 2009}

The Ubuntu Artwork community just made the first official beta release of the  Breathe Icon Theme. It’s a refresh of the Human icon theme using Oxygen as a base. The idea is to create as modern a set as Oxygen but with that distinctly Human feel.

You can grab …

Testing Ubuntu+1 and the Fourms

meta = {'category': Ubuntu, 'date': Fri 22 May 2009}

Ubuntu+1 has an active user based which needs to be better utilized. Over at the Ubuntu Forums, there is a Karmic Koala Testing and Discussion sub-forum. While it’s mostly users helping each other through the bumpy adventure of running the development release (along with some people engaged in …

print “Hello, World!”

meta = {'category': Ubuntu, 'date': Wed 20 May 2009}

Alright, I’ve been a Ubuntu Member since last October, and I haven’t set up a blog to be syndicated on Planet Ubuntu yet. That changes now. There hasn’t been an UbuntuOne post in almost two days. I just couldn’t let that happen. Let me tell you …