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Some of the intro pictures (including the cake) are from the Quebec City Ubuntu 8.10 Release Party. Lots of pictures of release parties can be found Flickr.

Audio files are coming soon.

Show Notes:

• Jaunty Jackalope Alpha 1 has been released
  • Obviously don’t run on production machines
  • Meant for developers or anyone who wants to help find bugs

• Ubuntu US shop is open for business
  • Had a “soft” opening before, but now its official

• Ubuntu Hall of Fame
  • The community is huge, lots of people doing great work, which is verifiable by stats
    • but the stats are all over the place
  • HoF brings it into nicely readable page and provides links to how to get involved in different parts of the community
  • Top contributors for:
    • 5-A-Day (confirming bugs, linking to upstream bugs, reviewing patches)
    • answering questions on LP
    • translators
  • Latest approved Ubuntu members and MOTU
  • Also a featured contributor section, a blurb about them, and letting people “thank” the contributor

• New theme on help.ubuntu.com
  • Pretty snazzy and clean
  • Gone away from the wiki look

• Lots of LoCos had 8.10 release parties
  • Iranian Team, Irish Team
  • Colombian Team will hold an UbuCon on Nov. 29th
  • Zimbabwe had its first release party
  • Peruvian Team was involved in a free software conference

• Linux Identity Magazine will cover Ubuntu 8.10
  • Each edition is devoted to something very specific, like Fedora 9, OO.o 3.0, FreeBSD, Debian
  • Their next edition is all about Ubuntu 8.10 (Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Mythbuntu)
  • Included DVDs
  • Describes how to install, upgrade, personalize

• Canonical will be porting Ubuntu onto the ARM architecture
  • Not sure about pronunciation, used to stand for Advanced Risc Machine
  • ARM processors used widely on mobile devices and getting into netbooks
  • Devices should be available in April 2009

• Aaron Seigo – one of KDE’s main developers is doing is on podcast on UStream
  • Last one was about KDE 4.2, plasmoids, etc.