Posted in Ubuntu on 06/02/2010 11:42 am by Laura Czajkowski
The Ubuntu Accessibility Team had a reorganising and reviving meeting at UDS-M. It was really great to see this much enthusiasm and plans for the future. They have some regular meeting, and plans for the cycle ahead. How they can get more teams involved and work on the project. They now have goals and tasks for the cycle ahead.
The team is trying to get back on it’s feet and find it’s way and getting the community involved. This cycle they want to build and improve upon existing documents, build on the community and encourage more involvement. If you want to help spread the word or get involved please see below for the details!
Bugs: ubuntu-accessibility-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
Development: ubuntu-accessibility-devel@lists.ubuntu.com
Discussion/Team: ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com
Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~accessibility
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-accessibility-reorg
Posted in Random on 06/02/2010 11:10 am by Laura Czajkowski
I used to listen for a very long time to the rantings and ravings of Jono Bacon and Stuart Lanngridge on the lugradio podcast with the other lads. That finished up and really I stopped listening to podcasts for a while bar the UUPC one as there wasn’t really an alternative I wanted to listen to.
Last year the two lads started up Shotofjaq, short and sweet podcasts which are designed to encourage discussion on the topic they’ve recorded. The difference I can see from this podcast and others is, discussion is predominantly via the web, twitter, identi.ca and leaving comments on the page where the episode has been released. This is great and seems to be working very well.
The downside for me is I use IRC a lot more than twitter and other means as I run a screen session and I can read back threads and folks can leave me comments. I miss the discussion happening on IRC. So has twitter/identi.ca blogs killed discussion on IRC I’m not sure. But it does seem that the podcast has a more web 2.0 following than previous podcasts I’ve listened to.
Saying all of that, the podcast is a worthy listen, covering many aspects on technology not just open source. There is a lot of interaction so much so you can suggest topics that you would like the two lads to cover. It’s easy to listen as it’s short and a bonus for me is I can have it in the back ground on and dad chimes in as it’s a some what tehci podcast delivered in a banter style chat and not always about open source so win win.
So go listen!
