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S10E23 – Important Fluffy Turn - Ubuntu Podcast


This week we’re joined by a love bug and add more pixels to our computer. RedHat abandon btrfs, Marcus Hutchins is arrested, Google did evil and the podcast patent is over turned! We also have a large dose of Ubuntu community news and some events.

It’s Season Ten Episode Twenty-Three of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Dave Lee are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

  • We discuss what we’ve been upto recently:
    • Dave Lee from The Bugcast joins us because Martin dared to take a holiday.
    • Alan has been “adding pixels“
  • We discuss the news:
    • RedHat Abandons Btrfs
    • Marcus Hutchins arrested in USA
    • Google has fired James Damore, author of the internal memo entitled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber”
    • Podcast patent declared invalid
  • We discuss the community news:
    • Ubuntu Fit and Finish Sprint
    • A quick look at the decline of Ubuntu Membership – The blog post referenced has since been removed by the author
    • Ubuntu Community Hub Proposal
  • We mention some events:
    • OggCamp: 19th-20th August – that’s next week!
      • Sponsored By Entroware – who have donated another laptop for the raffle!, Canterbury Christ Church University, the Ubuntu Community, and openSuse
    • Podcrawl Sheffield: 16th September – Sheffield, England.
  • This weeks cover image is taken from Wikimedia.

Entroware Apollo laptop contest reminder
  • We kicked off a contest in Episode 22 to win an Entroware Apollo laptop, the very one Alan reviewed last week.
  • The contest is open until 3rd September 2017, so plenty of time to get your entries in!
  • Listen to Episode 22 for all the details.

That’s all for this week! If there’s a topic you’d like us to discuss, or you have any feedback on previous shows, please send your comments and suggestions to show@ubuntupodcast.org or Tweet us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our Google+ page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

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