This episode contains fewer facts than usual.

It’s a New Year. It’s January. We’re on something of a break, so that can only mean a cheap, and frankly brain-numbingly lazy, listen back to the year 2011. This could be the best, or worst idea we’ve ever had.

Our thanks to all our co-hosts, guests, correspondents and contributors.

Select brain to ‘neutral’, put your laughing trousers on stand-by and enjoy.

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• Robin Catling (blog at http://catlingmindswipe.blogspot.com/, @robincatling on Twitter)
  Culture-vultures can also go to Everything Express at http://everythingexpress.wordpress.com/
• Ed Hewitt (blog at http://www.edhewitt.co.uk/, @edhewitt on Twitter)
• Dave Wilkins… has a ‘portfolio’ of accents. Really. (twitter @DavidAWilkins)
• Les Pounder (blog at http://lespounder.wordpress.com/ twitter @biglesp)
• Alan Pope (blog at http://popey.com/blog/, twitter @popey)

Additional audio by Victoria Pritchard and Philippa Hammond

Show Notes

00:51 | WELCOME and INTRO:

26:21 | FEEDBACK

• Please send us some using the channels below!

34:02 | OUTRO AND WRAP

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• Opening: ‘Achilles’ by Kevin Macleod
• Main Theme: ‘Revolve’ by His Boy Elroy
• Incidental: ‘Dance Zone’ by Unknown
• Incidental: ‘On the Run’ by Unknown
• Incidental: ‘Iron Man’ by Unknown
• Trailer: ‘Dangerous’ by Kevin Macleod
• Trailer: ‘News Theme’ by Kevin Macleod from the Album ‘Utility’
• Trailer: ‘Truth of the Legend’ by Kevin Macleod
• Incidental: ‘Guitar Opus’ by Peter John Ross

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• Midi version of Benny Hill TV theme based on “Yakety Sax” by Boots Randolph.
• The Nolans ‘I’m in the mood for dancing’ (copyright Epic Records 1979)

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  adapted by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clark
• Other dialogue, sketches and commentaries written by Robin Catling, copyright Short Life Productions, 2012
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It’s the final episode of the year: news, predictions, a Figgy pudding and a Pope’s Christmas message.

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  Culture-vultures can also go to Everything Express at http://everythingexpress.wordpress.com/
• Les Pounder (blog at http://lespounder.wordpress.com/ twitter @biglesp)
• Dave Wilkins… is a cybernetic organism from the future (twitter @DavidAWilkins)
• Alan Pope (blog at http://popey.com/blog/, twitter @popey)

Additional audio by Victoria Pritchard

Show Notes

00:40 | WELCOME and INTRO:

02:34 | SINCE LAST TIME

• Robin
  - Discovering various breakages in Ubuntu 11.10; Mumble killed my laptop (maybe not) re-installed 11.10.
  - Now on Gnome fallback in place of Xfce or Unity. Tested Linux Mint 12 – missed bag of fail on Gnome 3.0 and MATE.
• Dave
  - Failed to install 11.10 on my netbook, while I still prefer 11.04 on my desktop (behind the curve, I know…); sad to see support ended for the Nexus One; experiencing the general difficulties people have had with transitioning one Google account to another; played around with an Asus EEE-pad transformer. Lots of debate as to the future of Ubuntu – I remain neutral in my judgment, though I am aware of the often self-fulfilling nature of such prophecies. Introduced girlfriend to Ubuntu on a Netbook.
• Alan
  - Playing Minecraft. Really.

19:12 | REVIEW of FULL CIRCLE MAGAZINE #55

• Dave – The new Games column by Riku Järvinen, this edition, Frozen Synapse, p.55
• Robin – Audacity Basics by Attila Balazs, p.19
• Alan -  Linux Lab on VOIP by John D, p.55

25.24 | NEWS

• Ubuntu 12.04 Development update – Alpha 1 Released
• 12 Things to Expect of Precise Pangolin 12.04
• Peggy Noonan On Steve Jobs And Why Big Companies Die
  (the salesmen take over, revenue becomes more important than innovation)
• 25 “Worst Passwords” of 2011 Revealed
• What Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, And SAP Don’t Tell Customers
• Could MATE Be the Savior of the GNOME 2 Linux Interface?
  [Answer - not yet. MATE keeps breaking on Mint 12 - even with December patches]
• New Intel based Commodore-64 on way – running Mint 11 until Commodore OS ‘Vision’ is ready
• BBC Micro II update – The BBC is bringing a stand to the Hack to the Future event on the 11th February in a fantastic coup for Alan O’Donahue.
• HP donates WebOS system code to open source developers (But doesn’t mention what licence they will release it under)

45:12 | PREDICTIONS FOR 2012

57:14 | INTERVIEW – Alan Pope

• Interview – Alan Pope, newest employee of Canonical: ‘Engineering Manager in Product Strategy.
  Engineering Ubuntu for hardware on a variety of devices. Strategy includes Ubuntu on everything.

1.18:06 | INTERVIEW – Julian Skidmore – Fignition

• Interview – Julian Skidmore of the Fignition Project.
  FIGnition is a £20 educational DIY computer which works like an 8-bit home Micro: outputting to composite video and ready to be interactively programmed from scratch. Using only 3 chips and only 46 components in total, it can be built in an afternoon.
  Recorded by Les Pounder at the Retro Replay Expo, retro games expo, 5 Nov Norbreck Castle Hotel Blackpool.

1.26:12 | FEEDBACK

• Please send us some using the channels below!
• Meanwhile from Erwin van de Biezen:
  Campaign for open standards for educational use. People can sign this petition at the website:http://www.janstedehouder.nl/2011/09/27/petitie-weg-met-het-overgewicht-in-nederlandse-onderwijs-ict/” (explains in English language)
  Open letter: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rtaDQDYWgSJmr2d81Uh2IWBoKab6aeCD_DEk80OaSDU/edit?hl=nl (uk language)
  More info @janstedehouder (twitter)
• Willem Ligtenberg enlightens us on using x2x to share mouse and keyboard between different computers. x2x sends mouse and keyboard signals from one x to another. More info can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X2x
  I normally use this over an ssh connection, so everything is encrypted as well.

1.34:56 | OUTRO AND WRAP

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• Incidental: ‘On the Run’ by Unknown
• Incidental: ‘Iron Man’ by Unknown

campaign for open standards for educational use.

In this episode, UDs, Public Speaking and Barcamp Blackpool.

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Despite a whole bag of Skype fail, Ubuntu USB fail and microphone fail, we’re lighting up like fireworks!

Your Hosts:

• Robin Catling (blog at http://catlingmindswipe.blogspot.com/, @robincatling on Twitter)
  Culture-vultures can also go to Everything Express as http://everythingexpress.wordpress.com/
• Les Pounder (blog at http://lespounder.wordpress.com/ twitter @biglesp)
• Dave Wilkins… is lost in Antiquity (twitter @DavidAWilkins)

Additional audio by Victoria Pritchard

Show Notes

01:13 | WELCOME and INTRO:

03:09 | Since Last Time

Les

• Attended a successful Barcamp Blackpool: Barcamp Blackpool audio sessions will begin appearing soon.
  A side-project emerged from Barcamp: The Flying Handbag podcast DOWNLOAD MP3 from Danlynch.org
  Running time: 50mins (ish). Parental Advisory! Contains strong language.
• Geek up Blackpool – fourth Monday of every month.
• Ubuntu LUG Blackpool
  Latest wheeze is a DEC Alpha revitalised on Gentoo Linux
• Event: Replay Expo, retro games expo, 5 Nov Norbreck Castle Hotel Blkpool
  Mix of old and new including MS Kinnect, Nintendo Wii.

Robin

• Upgrades to all Ubuntu machines to 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot (clean and upgrades)
  RANT ALERT: why has 11.10 broken USB printers in 64-bit and extended kernels?!?!
  And my USB microphone!
• Switched to Xfce desktop (added to Ubuntu, not by running Xubuntu; it’s just my choice of software stack).
  RANT ALERT: why is Unity still so difficult?

19:48 | REVIEW of FULL CIRCLE MAGAZINE #54

• Robn – Closing Windows by Ronnie p.26 (despite the typo with sub-heading, we know). Finding the Linux equivalents of Windows features for the migrants.
• Les – Review of  Synergy on  p32. -  keyboard and mouse server sharing
  Also – Review by Hans Vandeveire  of  Mind mapping software- FreeMind on p.14

25.26 | NEWS

• Ubuntu on tablets. Coming Soon: Ubuntu For Mobiles, Tablets: Canonical will focus on its longer-term goal of expanding to all computing platforms, including mobile phones, tablet devices and also smart TVs (thanks for link Roland Tarver)
  Also on Mark Shuttleworth’s blog Here Be Dragons: Ubuntu on phones, tablets, TV’s and smart screens everywhere.
• Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS-P) News – see excellent coverage by attendees on Planet Ubuntu
  Starting with the Summit beginning
  USD-P in Orlando Day 1 (Elizabeth Krumbach)
  Ubuntu UDS-P Orlando – Mark Shuttleworth’s Keynote session, a bit low-key, if anything.
  Ubuntu Developer Summit – Designing and Creating Ubuntu Experiences
  UDS-P, Banshee is to be dropped for Rhythmbox in 12.04 (via Julien Lavergne). Maybe.
• Hack to the Future Feb 11 2012 Preston, free tickets, full day 10-5.30. Real computing for kids.
  Prime-mover is friend of the show Alan O’Donahoe (blog at teachcomputing.wordpress.com, @teknoteacher on twitter, email: alan (at) odonahoe.com)

13:41 | GUEST: Interview – Philippa Hammond – Reading from the Script

• Following the Workshop at the Critical Incident Unconference over the Summer.
  Pippa’s site is Speaking Well in Public

44:20 | GUEST: Interview – Gemma Cameron – Barcamp Blackpool 2011

• Discussing the highlights of the Barcamp Blackpool Unconference last month.
  - Picks of the non-techie talks- Lally on British sign language.
  - Alex a comedic history of error messages. Including a live Sinclair Spectrum.
  - The Physics busker with vortex simulator and rockets on the prom.
  - 8 bit Nintendo hammer bead patterns producing badges.
  Barcamp 2011 is not over;  talks, blog posts, audio will be going up soon.
  The planning for 2012 begins!
  (Gemma is @ruby_gem on twitter)

57:06 | FEEDBACK

• Please send us some using the channels below!

57:38 | OUTRO AND WRAP

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• Incidental: ‘Iron Man’ by Unknown

In this episode, Floss UK Un-conference and Programming in Schools.

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We’re back with something approaching a regular show.

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• Robin Catling (blog at http://catlingmindswipe.blogspot.com/, @robincatling on Twitter)
• Les Pounder (blog at http://lespounder.wordpress.com/ twitter @lespounder)
• Dave Wilkins (twitter @DavidAWilkins)

Additional audio by Victoria Pritchard

Show Notes

01:30 | WELCOME and INTRO:

03:10 | Since Last Time

• Les – now convenes Geek up Blackpool – fourth Monday of every month.
  Is also organising Barcamp Blackpool:
  A free ‘unconference’ with no scheduled speakers. Attendees arrive on the day armed with talks and decide which ones they want to go along to! The talks can be on anything, from android application development to learning the British Sign Language to Electronic Organs played by BBC Micros! But don’t worry, you don’t have to do a talk to participate! The event is paid for by lovely sponsors.
  * When: Saturday 15th October 2011
  * Where: Blackpool Pleasure Beach (inside the white Casino Building)
  * Twitter: @bcblackpool
  * Tags: #bcblackpool
  * Google Group: http://groups.google.co.uk/group/bcblackpool
• Dave: graduation from Reading, moved to Oxford University; introducing people to Ubuntu.
• Robin: Putting Xfce atop the Ubuntu 11.10 Beta.

09:56 | REVIEW of FULL CIRCLE MAGAZINE #52

•  Dave: Elmer Perry’s Libre Office – Part 7 on mailmerge p. 16
• Les, Robin: Ed Hewitt’s review of the Samsung Chromebook p. 41

13.41 | GUEST: Martin Houston for Floss UK Unconference

* When: Saturday 8th October, 9:30am – 5pm.
* Where: Manchester Conference Centre, Sackville Street
* This is the second FLOSS UK Unconference, and is being held in collaboration with local FLOSS groups.
* Accommodation is available for anyone who wishes to stay overnight

21.52 | NEWS

• Facebook changes – what a mess! Privacy is a maze as usual. Plenty of comment out there (Dave’s post on G+ for one)
  * Facebook’s New FeaturesMight Not Be as Private as You Think  (Mashable)
  * Facebook Changes in a Nutshell [COMIC]
  * Logging Out Of Facebook Is Not Enough (G-Hacks)
• Amazon Kindle Fire Tablet launched… running Android 2.3. (BBC)
• Samsung to pay Microsoft royalties over Android (BBC)
• Teachers need more training in ICT  (The Register)
• Firefox killing Java (the Register)
• Tizen the latest mobile linux (H-Online)
• Libre office 1st birthday (H-Online)
• Virtual monkeys write Shakespeare for the Douglas Adams fans. Bad news – they’re cheating! (BBC)

44.20 | GUEST: Alan O’Donohoe on Programming in Schools

Programming and Open Source in Education

Alan O’Donahoe (blog at teachcomputing.wordpress.com,  @teknoteacher on twitter, email: alan (at) odonahoe (dot) org (dot) uk)

• It all started with a talk at Barcamp Media City, Salford. A fictional talk made reality?
• The fictitious BBC Code Lab (#bbccodelab blew up on Twitter)
• Code Lab – place for a well trusted institution to play a part in modern IT. Vision and concept for schools IT this decade.
• Cast your mind back over the BBC Micro project supported through schools and colleges to encourage the uptake of technology.
• Computing at Schools (supported by Microsoft, Google, CPHC, BCS).
  * The Computing at School Working Group (CAS) is a grass roots organisation that aims to promote the teaching of Computing at school. CAS is a collaborative partner with the BCS through the BCS Academy of Computing, and has formal support from other industry partners.
• Codemanship – Practitioner Partner Exchange as documented by Jason Gorman.
• Programming in Scratch. Building-block programming.
  * Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web.
  * As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.
• Python is being taught for Computing GCSE.

1.11:06 | FEEDBACK

1.21:57: | OUTRO AND WRAP

Midi version of Beny Hill TV theme based on “Yakety Sax” by Boots Randolph.

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• Incidental: ‘Dance Zone’ by Unknown
• Incidental: ‘On the Run’ by Unknown
• Incidental: ‘Iron Man’ by Unknown

Full Circle Side-Pod Episode Ten: Dancing in Bare feet

In this episode, interviewing Paul Levy and Becky Hogg.

Just me, Robin Catling hosting things today, but I’m not alone, as we have not one but two guests.

First up is Paul Levy, from Cats3000, Rational Madness and the Critical Incident un-conference, who will be talking about Learning to Dance with Spiders.

We’ll follow that with an interview I recorded about a month ago (before I got caught up with OGG Camp). Our second guest is Becky Hogg, journalist, activist and author of the book Barefoot into Cyberspace.

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Show Notes

00:59 | WELCOME and INTRO

02:26 | Interview: Paul Levy

Discussing:

• Cats3000 and Rational Madness
• Texts theatrical performance
• Critical Incident unconference
• which together lead to Learning to Dance with Spiders:
  “Led by Paul Levy. Paul will share some experiments from his forthcoming book about living consciously with your mobile phone and staying intact in the world of social media. Truly ground-breaking, uncomfortable, and usable.”

Also discussed:

• Jaron Lanier You are not a Gadget
• Sherri Turkel Alone Together

Paul Levy’s site combines Cats3000 and Rational Madness at http://rationalmadness.wordpress.com/, where you will also find the e-book  The Collusion of Mediocrity.

It’s a little early for the Critical Incident un-Conference for 2012, but take a look over the conference notes for last year and this year over at Critical Incident website, www.thecriticalincident.com/

26:48 | Interview: Becky Hogge

Author of Barefoot into Cyberspace – Adventures in Search of Techno Utopia
Through activism and journalism covering hacker counter-culture, from Stallman and Lessig, the Chaos Club to WikiLeaks Julian Assange and Rop Gonggrijp, quote:

“I think most of what were fighting still today in the world is incompetence. Most of what we’re fighting is stupidity, and maybe a little bit of opportunism. There is also the ominous, control-seeking large corporate interests.”

“We come in peace. We’re not called Chaos Computer Club because we cause chaos. If anything, a lot of our collective work has actually prevented chaos by pointing out that maybe we should lay some decent virtual foundations before we build any more virtual skyscrapers.”

Barefoot into Cyberspace: Adventures in Search of Techno-Utopia
by Becky Hogge, illustrated by Christopher Scally
ISBN 978-1-906110-50-5 (print) | 978-1-906110-51-2 (Kindle)

1.10:49 | FEEDBACK: How to get in touch with us

1.11:10 | WRAP and OUTRO

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* Main theme: ‘CCMixter’ by Code
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* Incidental: ‘Techno-dog’ by Unknown, original recording royalty free under Creative Commons v2
* Opening dramatic dialog by Dave Wilkins and Robin Catling, from 2001: A Space Odyssey

In this episode, two talks, two guests and a raffle…
(with a warning about the audio quality!)

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Additional audio by Victoria Pritchard

Show Notes

01:32 | WELCOME and INTRO: About OGG Camp 11
In case you missed OGG Camp PartOne, OGG Camp is a joint venture organised by the Ubuntu UK podcast and Linux outlaws teams. In this, it’s third year, OGG Camp came South to the Farnham Maltings venue. These are some of the highlights of what happened on Sunday, Day Two.

Summary of the proceedings on Lanyrd: OggCamp 11 Celebrating Open Technology

01:51 | Arrival at OGG Camp 11, Day Two, Sunday morning

02:23 | Andy Piper’s presentation on MQTT.
Andy Piper on Lanyrd: social bridgebuilder, photographer, techie, speaker, podcaster, WebSphere Messaging Community Lead @ IBM, Committee @ Digital Surrey.

The presentation Messaging for the Internet of Awesome Things (slideshare.net)

Andy’s blog for MQTT is also on-line.

30:07 | Presentation from Laura Cjachowski.
Laura czajkowski on Lanyrd: Argumentative, Stubborn, Geek, Ubuntu Fan, MUNSTER FAN
Slides (pdf): Life Outside of IRC in a FLOSS Community (cypher.skynet.ie)

44:19 | Quick chat with Les Pounder
Les Pounder working the crew like galley slaves (blog at http://lespounder.wordpress.com/ twitter @lespounder)

48:46 | Day Two Interval

50:07 | Raffle-cast:
Don’t worry, this isn’t the whole thing. Although it was funny to watch Alan ‘Road-runner’ Pope skip up and down the auditorium distributing prizes.

1.00:55 | End of Day Two. A summary of proceedings.

1.04:28 | Catch-up with Alan Pope
Hear the special edition podcast: Ubuntu UK Podcast OGG Camp Live edition S04E13 – When Two Worlds Collide
And for good measure the Outlaws version: Linux Outlaws 224 – OggCamp 11 Live

1.17:40 | OUTRO AND WRAP

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• Main Theme: ‘Revolve’ by His Boy Elroy
• Incidental: ‘Dance Zone’ by Unknown
• Incidental: ‘On the Run’ by Unknown
• Incidental: ‘Iron Man’ by Unknown

In this episode, the Unconference Begins…
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Show Notes

00:40 | WELCOME and INTRO: About OGG Camp 11
OGG Camp is a joint venture organised by the Ubuntu UK podcast and Linux outlaws teams, taking over from the sadly departed LUG Radio live. In this, it’s third year, OGG Camp came South to the Farnham Maltings venue. These are some of the highlights of what happened on Saturday, Day One. None of the names have been changed to protect the guilty…

02:19 | Arrival at OGG Camp 11

02:49 | Opening, greetings, notes on the Unconference: the Ubuntu UK Podcast (UUPC) and Linux Outlaws teams, with acknowledgements to Jon Spriggs for the Campfire Manager conference scheduler.

09:12 | Introducing Simon Phipps, who presented the opening session of the unconference to a packed main hall, on Software Freedom.

A computer industry veteran, Simon Phipps came on with an actual box of hats which he proceeded the change at speed, reminding me of Tommy Cooper in his heyday.

Simon has come up through hands-on roles as field engineer, programmer and systems analyst, run a software publishing company, worked with OSI standards in the eighties, on the first commercial collaborative conferencing software in the nineties, and helped introduce both Java and XML at IBM.

A founding Director of the Open Mobile Alliance, Simon is Chief Strategy Officer at independent software company ForgeRock and Director of the Open Source Initiative. Find his essays at webmink.com.

10:10 | Simon Phipps’ presentation on software freedom. Here’s a shortened version of the presentation which ran to 35 minutes in its entirety.

24:31 | Introducing Karen Sandler: legal eagle, formerly of the Software Freedom Law Center and newly appointed executive director at the Gnome Foundation.

24:55 | Presentation from Karen Sandler. Karen wasn’t due on the scheduled track, but stepped into an unexpected gap to talk about something, dare I say, very close to her heart? Opening up embedded software in medical devices.

41: 48 | Introducing the Panel Discussion

• Dan Lynch – Linux Outlaws – Chairman
• Karen Sandler – Gnome Foundation and ex Software Freedom Law Center
• Simon Phipps – Forgerock and Open Software Initiative
• Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge – Canonical and ex-LUG Radio
• Fabian Scherschel – Linux Outlaws

42:13 | Panel Discussion: questions from the floor

1.19:51 | End of Day One. A summary of proceedings. A little about the Maltings venue.

1.25:22 | OUTRO AND WRAP

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In this episode, all things Chrome

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• Ed Hewitt (blog at http://www.edhewitt.co.uk/, @edhewitt on Twitter)
• Dave Wilkins (…had to go cook the dinner. @davidawilkins on Twitter)

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Show Notes

01:42 | WELCOME and INTRO

02:32 | SINCE LAST TIME

• Ed: moved house, started work as IT Administrations New Hope and bought a Chromebook
• Dave: graduated university and went on military exercises
• Robin:
  - Produced Sidepod 9 with Les Pounder – many thanks to Les for the field reports
  - Wrote 2 articles on digital watermarking for the magazine
  - Events and exhibits
  - National Portrait Gallery, Hollywood photos “Glamour of the Gods”, reviewed at Everything Express
  - BP Portrait awards, winners and finalists,  reviewed at Everything Express
  - Charity book launch, “Cheshire the Cheese-loving Bear” by John Henty and illustrated by Alex Noel Watson in aid of the Royal Marsden Hospital, coverage at Everything Express
  - Installed Mint 11

06:58 | REVIEW: Full Circle Magazine Issue #49

• Dave: Ed’s game review of Trine, p.37
• Ed: Ronnie’s KDE 4.6 article, p.20 and Robin’s Gnome Shell vs Unity, p.24
• Robin: Daniel Holbach’s continuing series on Ubuntu development, p.17

012:33 | NEWS

• Chrome to replace Firefox as default? (as hinted by Mark Shuttleworth)
• Synaptic Finally Gone! (cue Albinoni Adagio in G Minor)
• Adobe Air gone from Linux! (why did I need it in the first place?)
• Ubuntu One File Android App finally available!
• Modal Dialogs appear in Ubuntu 11.10 (Alpha)
• Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 2 released
• Ubuntu 11.10 uses Thunderbird 5 as Default Mail Client
• Linux 3.0 kernel released
• Radical change to Gwibber in 11.10. New theme, dropped Webkit for GTK3.0; better RAM usage, still needs push notification
• UDS 11.10 goes back to Florida
• Me Menu dropped in 11.10
• Dark Toolbars coming to Ubuntu 11.10 theme

36:19 | CONTRIBUTE

36:51 | OPINION: All things Chrome: Ed’s Samsung Chrome notebook.  ChromeOS marches on, but for how long?

58:04 | Send us feedback: since Victoria continues to ask so nicely

58:38 | OUTRO AND WRAP

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Runtime: 101 mins 33 seconds

In this episode, Social innovation, Open Data and FOSSbox

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This is an extra, irregular, short-form podcast, which is intended to be a side-branch of the main Full Circle Podcast. Somewhere to put all the general technology, non-Ubuntu news and opinions, hobby-horses and kruft that doesn’t fit anywhere else. Be prepared for a healthy dose of British sarcasm.

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* Les Pounder (blog at http://lespounder.wordpress.com/ twitter @lespounder)

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Show Notes

00:59 | WELCOME and INTRO

01:55 | Feedback on the OpenTech Conference 2011, Saturday 21st May 2011.

OpenTech 2011 is an informal, low cost, one-day conference on slightly different approaches to technology, transport and democracy. Talks by people who work on things that matter, guarantees a day of thoughtful talks leading to conversations with friends.

08:09 | Interview: Glen Mehne of Social Innovation Camp:

Social Innovation Camp brings together ideas, people and digital tools to build web-based solutions to social problems – all in just 48 hours

17:44 | Interview: Paula Graham of Fossbox

Fossbox is a non-profit organisation supporting digital inclusion and helping other non-profits move towards lower-cost ICT systems with more flexibility and lower environmental impact.

30:51 | Interview: Lucy Chambers of the Open Knowledge Foundation

Founded in 2004, we’re a not-for-profit organization promoting open knowledge: any kind of data and content – sonnets to statistics, genes to geodata – that can be freely used, reused, and redistributed. We promote open knowledge because of its potential to deliver far-reaching societal benefits.

48:13 | FEEDBACK: How to get in touch with us

48:54 | NEWS: Competition for Ubuntu and Unity according to Distrowatch

56:17 | WRAP and OUTRO

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In this episode, why do we need Ubuntu? The desktop versus the cloud

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• Dave Wilkins (…has a Fischer-Price toy. @DavidAWilkins on Twitter)

Additional audio by Victoria Pritchard

Show Notes

01:25 | WELCOME and INTRO

02:16 | SINCE LAST TIME

• Dave: academic and military
• Ed: finishing the academic year, work, travel, weighing up Chromebooks. Watching proceedings of the WWDC conference.
• Robin: blogging about CyanogenMod7 and trying Chromium-OS using both Hexxeh (failed) and Dell build (success).

06:53 | REVIEW: Full Circle Magazine Issue #49

• Dave:
  - Ronnie’s Thunderbird article p.20
  - Smithie’s opinion on Netbooks, p.26
  - Ed’s Revenge of the Titans review p.40
• Ed: The open question ‘I Think’ article on Unity. p.27
• Robin: Daniel Holbach’s article on Ubuntu development, p.17

015:26 | NEWS

• Major issue with lack of Android updates
• 30 Days with Ubuntu, an article series by Tony Bradley at PC World
• Software Centre changes planned for 11.10
• Pitivi removed from Ubuntu default apps
• Further default apps discussion, computer janitor now gone
• Ubuntu 11.10 release schedule published
• Linux 3.0 on the way. Linus Torvalds ups the version number for no other reason than it’s the third decade of the Linux kernel
• Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha-1 released to an expectant world
• Asus EEE-PC to ship with Ubuntu pre-installed
• Canonical Launches Ubuntu-Ready Hardware Certification (Big news! Does anyone outside the village care?)
• The Five Pillars Of Ubuntu Server 11.10 laid out as a roadmap for the server community

35:20 | CONTRIBUTE

35:51 | OPINION: Why do we need Ubuntu? The desktop versus the Cloud.

56:27 | GAMING: Trine. Although it killed Dave’s laptop. Or maybe Dave killed Dave’s laptop…

• Trine

59:39 | FEEDBACK: Call to action – anyone an expert in protecting yourself and your Open Source project against copyright and patent issues.

1.02:51 | Send us feedback: since Victoria continues to ask so nicely

1.03:28 | OUTRO AND WRAP

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Runtime: 68 mins 23 seconds