Florida Team Packaging Jam August 8, 2009

By pak33m | Published: August 6, 2009

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The Ubuntu Florida LoCo team will be having a Packaging Jam on Augst 8th, 2009 at Cup O Soul http://tinyurl.com/ktlxrd in Winter Park between 2 – 6 pm. The Packaging Jam will be held in the back room within Cup O Soul. The back room has a table, chairs, projector and dvd player. Cup O Soul offers coffee, tea, beer, wine, snacks, food and more.

This will be the 1st Packaging Jam for the Florida LoCo Team. The Packaging Jam will consist of a packaging 101 by Cary Haynie and packaging in general by everybody involved. This event will serve as a stepping stone for people in general and/or from the Florida LoCo to get further involved in packaging applications for Ubuntu and in general.

If you’re interested check out the Packaging Jam page on the team wiki https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FloridaTeam/Projects/PackagingJam and use https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FloridaTeam/Projects/PackagingJam/Signup if plan to attend.

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Team Meeting – July 21, 2009

By Dan Trevino | Published: July 17, 2009
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With all of the energy of a Florida monorail, the Ubuntu Florida Local Community team will continue its mission to unite the 6 or 7  corners of Florida under the Linux and Open Source banners next week.

We’ll be leaving the station (#ubuntu-us-fl on Freenode) at 8pm on Tuesday, July 21.

The first stop: “Qimo Build Day Planning”, then its a short trip to “Ubuntu Global Jam”

Get your tickets here: http://www.ubuntu-fl.org/team-chat/

Hop on, grab some refreshments, and come ride with us!

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FloridaTeam/Meetings#Agenda

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Worldwide LoCo Teams Meeting – July 7th

By Dan Trevino | Published: July 3, 2009

The Ubuntu Local Community will be meeting July 7th on Freenode in #ubuntu-locoteams.

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Team Meeting – July7, 2009

By Dan Trevino | Published: July 2, 2009

Ubuntu Florida Logo Once upon a time, there lived a group of people dedicated to making computing easier and more accessible…

Ok, that time is now.  And those people are right here in Florida and all over the world. Those of us in Florida will be meeting to discuss what we can do to improve our platform of choice.

The team meeting agenda can be found here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FloridaTeam/Meetings#Agenda

Join us on Freenode in #ubuntu-us-fl or via our team chat webpage:

http://www.ubuntu-fl.org/team-chat/

And everyone lived happily ever after…

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Hacklet: Remove Gwibber tray icon

By mhall119 | Published: June 30, 2009

Like Pidgin, Gwibber offers you the option to “minimize to tray” when you close the Gwibber window, it also has an option to not show a tray icon.  However, I’d imagine to keep the window from being lost to the user, you can’t do both.  If you make Gwibber minimize to the system tray, it will automatically turn on the tray icon.

Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) introduced the new Indicator Applet, which lets applications that need to show indications/notifications to a user congregate all in one place.  Gwibber is one such application that makes use of the Indicator Applet, but the sanity check I mentioned above means you still get tray clutter.  Here is a quick, simple hack you can make to the Gwibber code to override this behavior.

1. sudo gedit /usr/share/pyshared/gwibber/client.py (If you installed Gwibber from the repos, if you’ve checked out the source it’s under $src/gwibber/client.py)

2. Locate the on_window_close method.

3. Comment out the line: self.preferences["show_tray_icon"] = True (Put a # at the beginning of the line)

4. Save and restart Gwibber!  Now you can minimize to tray without showing a tray icon.  Use the Gwibber entry in the Indicator Applet menu to bring the window back up.

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client.py changes

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Florida Team Rockledge Release Party – June 26, 2009

By itnet7 | Published: June 27, 2009

Our First Rockledge Jaunty release party was held on June 26th. It started around 6 p.m. There were 7 people that showed with only three of them being members of the Florida Team. We started off by helping one of the guests dual boot his work laptop with Jaunty. We fixed another attendee’s issue , in which LogMeIn would refresh his entire screen during his remote sessions with using Ubuntu. We entertained questions on how to do things easier when beginning to first use Ubuntu, for example why would you use the terminal with apt-get vs. opening the gui to install applications and add repositories.

Once everyone had Jaunty installed, and the questions were all answered… we all decided to relax with a little bit of World Of Padman action. Lupine was our resident bartender and made some super good Mojito’s that would surely rival Chili’s version. After a bit Lupine ordered pizza for everyone and we all had our fill of some cool combination pizzas (The best hands down was the grilled chicken with bell peppers).

We called it quits close to 10:30, and everyone had a great time. In the future, we plan on giving more notice so others can plan to attend. Thanks to those that were able to attend, and to Lupine for hosting it!

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Florida Team Bug Jam July 12, 2009

By pak33m | Published: June 22, 2009

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The Ubuntu Florida LoCo team will be having a Bug Jam on July 12, 2009 at Stardust Video & Coffee http://tinyurl.com/kpjlcg in Winter Park between 2 – 6 pm.  This event is for people in general and/or from the Florida LoCo to get further involved in triaging bugs in Ubuntu for stable and future releases.

If you’re interested check out the Bug Jam page on the team wiki https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FloridaTeam/Projects/BugJam and sign the RSVP page if plan to attend. We would like to get a head count in order to find an appropriate place for the Bug Jam. At the moment we are guesstimating at least 10 jammers.

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SouthEast Linux Fest June 13, 2009

By pak33m | Published: June 9, 2009

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The SouthEast Linux Fest June (or SELF) http://www.southeastlinuxfest.org is happening on June 13, 2009 in Clemson, SC. The SouthEast LinuxFest is a community event for anyone who wants to learn more about Linux and Free & Open Source software. It is part educational conference, and part social gathering. Like Linux itself, it is shared with attendees of all skill levels to communicate tips, ideas, and to benefit all who use Linux/Free and Open Source Software. LinuxFest is the place to learn, to make new friends, to network with new business partners, and most importantly, to have fun!

itnet7 (Chris) and pak33m (Jimmy) will be representing the Ubuntu Florida LoCo team although without a booth. pak33m (Jimmy) will be DJing and  providing audio for the SELF after party!

The Qimo 4 Kids http://www.qimo4kids.com team mhall (Michael) and michelle_qimo_4_kids (Michelle) will be presenting at 16:00 Growing Without Boundaries: Charity and Open Source.

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Team Meeting – June 16, 2009

By pak33m | Published: June 8, 2009

Ubuntu Florida LogoYour next mission, should you choose to accept it, is to attend the next Ubuntu Florida LoCo team meeting. The codename for this mission is “Magic”, and it is scheduled for June 16th at 8pm.

The team meeting agenda can be found here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FloridaTeam/Meetings

Join us on Freenode in #ubuntu-us-fl or via our team chat webpage:

http://www.ubuntu-fl.org/team-chat/

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Tampa Meetup – June

By Dan Trevino | Published: June 5, 2009

Ubuntu Florida LogoJohn Pugh of Canonical will be discussing the Ubuntu Developer Summit and talking about new features of the upcoming Karmic Koala release of Ubuntu in October.  Come out and join us!

For more information see the meetup page here: http://www.meetup.com/Tampa-Linux

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