Issue #72

This month:

* Ubuntu News.
* How-To : Programming in Python, LibreOffice, and Network Settings.
* Graphics : Blender, and Inkscape.
* Book Review: The Book of GIMP.
* Review: SolydXK

The LibreOffice series continues…

We continue our assembly of Elmer Perry’s LibreOffice series in this, Volume 2.

Here is a straight reprint of the series ‘Libre Office’, Parts 8-16 from issues #53 through #63, which the observant among you will note is not an unbroken run. Fear not, you are missing nothing: Elmer took a couple of issues off.

Go get it from: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/libreoffice-special-edition-volume-two/

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Welcome to the first of a 2 part conference special, in this episode the presenters reflect on the first even Raspberry Jamboree held at the Manchester Central Conference Centre on 9^th March 2013

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• Freaky Clown (twitter @__Freakyclown__)
• Les Pounder (blog at http://about.me/lespounder/ twitter @biglesp)
• Olly Clark (Google + http://plus.google.com/103073417601965434371/ twitter @ollyclarkdotorg)
• Tony Hughes (Google + http://plus.google.com/101988366830118285114/ twitter @TonyH1212)

Show Notes

01:28 | WELCOME and INTRO:

02:00 | Since Last Time

• Tony - Has been getting to grips with his Nexus 4, so far he’s impressed with it and despite some criticism of the battery life has found this to be more than adequate for him. Tony has also been using a programme called MultiSystem to create Bootable Multi distro USB drives. It was a bit convoluted to install  as it meant adding the repository to synaptic (here is the howto) to download and install the packages but it works well. He now have an 8Gb drive with several distros including a couple of utility distros for partitioning and data rescue. Finally he discovered Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs support Linux on the web, providing a Linux version of one of their PAYE software packages for download.
• Freaky Clown – Had built a laptop based around a Raspberry Pi to show at the Manchester Girl Geeks Barcamp but unfortunately couldn’t show it at the event as the postal service let him down and a part he needed failed to arrive in time. The completed project can be seen here: http://thegreyhats.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/so-i-have-two-raspberry-pis-i-love-them.html
• Les - Has been very busy organising the Raspberry Jamboree with is new business partner Dan, attended the Manchester Girl Geeks Bracamp with Olly who became the AV Tech Crew for the day recording audio and video and taking photographs while grabbing interviews with the organisers. Les has also been hacking a bash script together to do network checks on various remote servers his company owns.
• Olly - Also attended the Raspberry Jamboree and assisted Les and Dan crewing along with Jonathan Archer of RossLUG as Les mentioned also attended the Manchester Girl Geeks Bracamp with Les and recorded all of the audio in the Plunge and took a few photos aswell. Olly also recorded a couple of interviews at both events which will be played out later in the show and on Episode 35. He has also been been dabbling with Nvidia drivers once again with the goal of running Steam under Linux but with little success and has now given up on the idea.

10:30 | REFLECTIONS

Les and Olly reflect on the success of this Raspberry “Super” Jam

• 365 people attended the event

• An average of 65 people watching the live stream
• People travelled from as far away as Bahrain and Sweden
• Closing presentation by Amy Mather @MiniGirlGeek

14:50 | INTERVIEW – Pete Lomas & Rob Bishop – Raspberry Pi How It Started and Where It’s Going

• Following their workshop on How to Setup a Raspberry Pi Pete and Rob talk to Olly about the origins of the Raspberry Pi their personal involvement in the journey and the future of the Pi.
• Keep up with all the development in the Raspberry Pi world by visiting the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s website and following Rob and Pete on Twitter

 30:22 | INTRODUCING Amy Mather

• Amy is an exceptionally bright young lady who has emerged from Ben Nuttall‘s Manchester Raspberry Jams who Tony interviewed for Episode 29 and at the time could only program using Scratch. Since then it’s been an incredible journey through learning Python and learning how to used Arduino‘s.

 30:55 | PRESENTATION Amy Mather – Recreating Conway’s Game of Life

• As Freaky Clown mentioned it is also well worth watching the video of her talk aswell as you can see the Game of Life running http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a35XINnYFtA.

 39:12 | INTERVIEW – Ben Nuttall – Raspberry Jams, The Jamboree & Public Speaking

• Post Jamboree Olly and Les catchup with Ben Nuttall to get his reflections on the event.
• We reflected on the success of the Manchester Raspberry Jam from it’s early beginnings which we captured on Episode 29 of the podcast.
• We discuss the origins of Amy’s Game of Life project.
• Looking to the future Ben talks about the next event he will be attending and his plans to present a talk on Open Source Software Culture at Manchester Girl Geeks Barcamp

51:24 | INTERVIEW – Jack Wearden – Raspberry Jamboree Reflections, Starting Raspberry Jams and Ucubed

• Reflecting on the success of the first Raspberry Jamboree and talking about the outcomes of the panel discussion Jack took part in.

• Discussing the first Birmingham Raspberry Jam, how it went and the planning and organisation of the event. If you are interesting in attending future Birmingham Raspberry Jams you can go to the Evenbrite page: http://BhamRaspJam.eventbrite.com to keep up with all the news regarding the event follow it on twitter @BhamRaspJam
• We also talk about another event that Jack is organising along with Chris Wilson, Ucubed which is the Ubuntu and Upstream Unconference, an event for users of the Ubuntu and Debian Operating Systems. If you would like to attend the event you can get tickets on Eventbrite here as Jack mentioned in the interview the ticketing is a pay what you want strategy. There is more information including last years event report on the official site http://ucubed.info/
• If you want to keep up with Jack and his organisation of many events you can follow him on twitter @JackWeirdy

1.08:04 | OUTRO AND WRAP

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Welcome to another ‘single-topic special’

In response to the latests calls, we are assembling another of our serialised articles into dedicated editions.
Here is a straight reprint of the series ‘Libre Office’, Parts 1-7 from issues #46 through #52; thanks to the efforts of Elmer Perry.

Go get it from: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/libreoffice-special-edition-volume-one/

Note: the file-size for this edition is 8.8Mb

And welcome to… oh, this is not the podcast.

But it is our first bold experiment in producing an audio edition of Full Circle Magazine. We decided, after editor Ronnie’s attempt to put the magazine through a screen-reader, that an entire edition sounding like a cross between Stephen Hawking and Donald Duck would be bad for everyone’s sanity.

Somewhat later than billed, you will find here the audio edition of Full Circle Magazine issue 69.

Our thanks go to the volunteers who managed deliver their readings.

So listen, enjoy and do please give us some feedback. Use the magazine website for comments and let us know what you thought of our efforts.

Listen now!

Try the MP3 audio edition: http://ubuntuone.com/23lhsOrnviLFxbGh2VIekr

This month:
* Ubuntu News.
* How-To : Programming in Python, LibreOffice, and Using PAF.
* Graphics : Blender, and Inkscape.
* Book Review: Python for Kids.
* Review: Chrome OS
plus: Q&A, Command & Conquer, Linux Labs, Ask The New Guy, My Story, and soooo much more!
Get it while it’s hot! PDF and EPUB:

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-71/

The single-topic Special Editions continue with a reprint of the Python articles parts 32 through 38

Go get it from: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/python-special-edition-issue-six/

Note: the file-size for this edition is 4.3Mb

Get it while it’s hot!

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-70/

In this episode, Ubuntu Phone and TV.

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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 (blog at http://www.davidalexanderwilkins.com/ and on twitter @DavidAWilkins)
• Alan Pope (blog at http://popey.com/blog/, twitter @popey), (Popey) on Google+

Additional audio by Victoria Pritchard

Show Notes

01:52 | WELCOME and INTRO

04:52 | SINCE LAST TIME

• Dave has been blogging
• Ed got a Galaxy Nexus 4
• Alan has been on Kickstarter in place of the shopping channels, the latest delivery being the Digisparc.
• Robin rashly took on the Full Circle Magazine Audio Edition (coming soon)

14:46 | Catch-up with UDS and 13.04 Mid-Cycle Sprint with Alan, and we discuss rolling releases.

22:43 | Ubuntu Phone – the gloves are off!
In a video released over the New Year, Mark Shuttleworth demos the new Ubuntu Phone operating system.

In a glossy, well produced (if slightly long 8mins 37secs), Canonical founder and CTO Mark Shuttleworth talks us through Ubuntu Phone, An Industry Proposition, a product he hopes will challenge iOS, Android and now Tizen in the mobile market.

Some of the key features:

• Ubuntu distilled from TV and desktop
• ‘Welcome screen’ not lock screen
• One-handed operation using all four screen edges
• Full swipe gesture control
• Bottom edge for show/hide buttons
• Show Unity Dash any time using left swipe
• Go to previous app using right swipe
• Full customisation of home screen
• Ubuntu Software Centre for mobile apps
• UbuntuOne cloud storage built in.
• Native Apps built in QT framework

Ed’s links:

• Microsoft paying developers to port apps over to Windows Phone
• The Rise and Fall of Palm
• Gmail drop support for Exchange Active Sync
• Blackberry Z10 Review
• Windows Phone 8 Review
• Ubuntu Phone to have issues
• Latest Smartphone Market
• What the hell happen to Ubuntu’s only chance of success
• Blackberry 10 has apps people actually want! – No terminal app in sight!

1.07:10 | Ubuntu TV: 

1.19:37 | FEEDBACK: How to get in touch with us

1.20:11 | WRAP and OUTRO

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* Opening dramatic monolog by Dave Wilkins, ‘Saruman.’

In this episode we are joined by Freaky Clown, we talk about the Ubuntu Phone release, Linux peripherals and some events.