Matthew East

I find myself looking back on a particularly strange release cycle for the Ubuntu Documentation Project (“ubuntu-doc”).
Really the most significant thing to happen in this release cycle is the development of the Ubuntu Manual Project (“ubuntu-manual”), which is essentially a competitor to ubuntu-doc with different processes, different tools, but identical aims. That development, and our [...]

In May 2008 the release of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS was reported on Italian national television (link to my blog entry). Fabio Marzocca of the Ubuntu-it community was interviewed.
Yesterday a further report was broadcast about the release of Ubuntu 9.10. This time Flavia Weisghizzi was interviewed about the new release, and did a great job: thanks [...]

I’m really pleased to have been elected to continue as a member of the Community Council for the next two years. I genuinely wasn’t expecting to be reelected with so many great candidates to choose from, so I will do my best to repay the trust of those who have voted. We have a lot [...]

Really long time no blog… I keep meaning to get back in touch and write an update post but have just been too busy!
So this is just a quick note to say that I’m not around so much on IRC these days. Unfortunately my server provider dreamhost, while excellent in many other ways, has cracked [...]

The Community Council has recently implemented some changes to community governance processes which it believes reflect a significant improvement in one area of community governance: applications for Ubuntu membership.
The Ubuntu project is rapidly expanding and the previous process for approval of new Ubuntu members has been struggling to keep up with the increased participation. The [...]

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 [...]

Since my Thinkpad T43 came back from IBM having been repaired, I can no longer run Ubuntu on it: the hard drive is no longer detected. This is pretty disastrous…
I’ve posted the details of the problem to the Ubuntu forums.
If anyone reading this can help I’d be much obliged!

Someone on the United Kingdom Ubuntu mailing list pointed out this excellent interview with Mark Shuttleworth on the show “Open Season”. I hadn’t listened to the show before but it was very well done. One thing that didn’t get quite answered was a point about how Ubuntu manages to ensure that every package is reliable [...]

I’ll be away in Crete with little internet access from 18 to 28 September. I’ll be checking email occasionally, but not too frequently
If you need to get hold of me, phone, sms or my work email address are the best ways.

I’ve finally got around to organising the photos from our wedding in Italy on 30 June and the subsequent party in England on 4 August. We’re still waiting for the photos from the official photographer but in the meantime it’s nice to have a collection of photos from the people who came along.
I’ve also added [...]