[Blackpool] [Fwd: Re: Software Freedom Day]

[Richard Vause]

Hi Guys,

This mailing list hates me and keeps slamming new rules on me so I hope this
message gets through!

See this wiki page re Gobuntu: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Gobuntu

<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Gobuntu>After speaking to that bloke about this
event it seems to be clearly focused on totally free software as apposed to
free non-free software, I was just thinking that as our goal is to advocate
Ubuntu, it is important to have defense for the common licensing questions
highly usable desktop distro users face.

re Mono: It has been rumored (possibly confirmed) that Ubuntu will be
dropping F-spot for Shotwell in Maverick Meerkat (brilliant news), which
leaves - as far as I know -  only Tomboy depending on mono...so it's almost
gone.

It has also been rumored that Ubuntu may adopt Chromium as the default web
browser which is brilliant as Google are leading this project with the full
HTML5 + <video> (WebM (vp8)) + sophisticated javascript (canvas, web workers
(may be Mozilla's name for it))  power that will really allow good web
applications to move away from depending on the infamous flash plugin.
Moreover, we are moving to the web, who reads email or writes documents in
natives apps anymore? The number is diminishing every day. So, yeah,
adopting Chromium (need to find out more) is a winner.

As long as we know what people can expect in the near future, we'll have no
problem turning these FreeBSD type's eyes to Ubuntu!

I feel that at this juncture that I should say something profound and
meaningful but I am going to just say that I am a little bit of a hypocrite.
I use WingIDE everyday, and my music collection is in MP3 format, my
girlfriend use's Skype and I only have a Twitter account, no status.net or
identica ( ;

~Rick.

On 11 July 2010 15:34, Les <lespounder at gmail.com> wrote:

> Brilliant!
>
> Thanks Tony
>
> Better get cracking on updating our plan!
>
> LOL
>
> Les
>
> On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 15:09 +0100, Tony Hughes wrote:
> > Hi Les
> >
> > I think I'll be available so I'm in
> >
> > Tony
> >
> > On 10/07/10 21:32, Les wrote:
> > > Lads, are you interested in helping out?
> > >
> > > Thinking a similar setup to Barcamp, but I also think a lad called Luke
> > > is running an Ubuntu for beginners session. So we could use that
> session
> > > as a springboard to our work?
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > I'd really like to support this as Software Freedom Day is a good
> cause.
> > > I know information is sketchy at the moment, but this event will be
> what
> > > we make it!
> > >
> > > Les
> > >
> > >
> >
>
> --
> Les Pounder
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> Blog lespounder.wordpress.com
>
>


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