Matthew East

Seriously long time no blog… life has been incredibly busy recently.
Ubuntu appeared on Italian terrestrial television yesterday, by way of a short piece on the program “Neapolis”, broadcast by RAI 3. RAI 3 is a state run television channel in Italy, and is popular for having plenty of interesting programs on culture and current events.
Congratulations [...]

Congratulations on the Italian lower house of Parliament on their recent Linux adoption (article in Italian). Any member of Parliament who so wishes can have our favourite operating system installed on their computer. They have chosen SLED, rather than Ubuntu, unfortunately, but in any case it’s a significant adoption story for Italy. The article is [...]

Lots of interesting news in the Italian Ubuntu community to spread around.
I blogged recently about some structural and social changes we’ve been making in the group. These seem to have acted as a mini springboard for some great parts of the community to express their ideas and work with each other to make them [...]

I’d like to announce some changes in the structure of the Italian Ubuntu community. A year and a half ago we set up quite a formal structure for the community, including a group of 4 members who represent the community and take general decisions about the direction of the community and assist with the integration [...]

I thought I’d celebrate my arrival in the new Ubuntu planet by blogging about the Ubuntu Italian Team.
The Italian team established a new website in September last year and since then the community has grown around it.
The various parts of the website are now:
* Main website, with news and information about Ubuntu and the local [...]

The Ubuntu Italian website is coming along nicely: the latest addition is a planet which we hope will gradually grow as more users join in! The services currently provided by ubuntu-it are:
* www – contains translated guides to Ubuntu and a news roll
* forum – does what it says on the tin
* wiki – used [...]