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Burning Circle 49

This week's episode responds to a discussion by our counterparts in the UK LoCo about ICT (Information Communication Technology) education in schools.

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Burning Circle Episode 49 by The Air Staff of Erie Looking Productions is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at podcast.ubuntu-uk.org.

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Linaro Connect Q4.11 welcome speech - Stephen Doel - YouTube
Orlando, Florida, Oct. 31 2011 Stephen Doel, Linaro's Chief Operating Officer, opens the Linaro Connect Q4.11 event. In particular, he gives practical detail...
OpenBSD 5.0 reveals MAD-themed release • The Register
PC-BSD 9.0RC1 Available | Official PC-BSD Blog
The BETA 3 is out. | GhostBSD
Canonical: Mobile OEMs are going to love our Linux • The Register
Shuttleworth: Ubuntu is heading to phones and tablets
$5 Cortex-A8 SoC aims to take on ARM9 in the embedded market - News - Linux for Devices
$89 dev board includes Cortex-A8 CPU, Ethernet, JTAG - News - Linux for Devices
Czajkowski » Blog Archive » UDS-P Day 4
Czajkowski » Blog Archive » UDS-P Day 3
Czajkowski » Blog Archive » UDS-P Day 2
Czajkowski » Blog Archive » UDS-P Day 1
UDS-P in Orlando: Day 4 – pleia2's blog
Day 4! It was very obviously day 4 at UDS as everyone was moving a bit slower this morning :) – Community Roundtable – We started off the roundtable by identifying subjects for the Leadership Mini-Summit that day and then launched a big discussion about the BuildingCommunity pages. The preliminary concern was that they weren’t [...]
UDS-P in Orlando: Day 3 – pleia2's blog
It was a beautiful morning on this day three of UDS. – Community Roundtable - The Community Roundtable today began with discussing install parties and how we could help a representative from a LoCo team to run one in his area. We pointed him to the LoCo Running Installfests documentation and I gave him my [...]
UDS-P in Orlando: Day 2 – pleia2's blog
The second day of UDS! – Community Roundtable - We spent this roundtable reviewing the results of the Ubuntu Community Survey (see: here). The discussion primarily centered around exploring what type of “bickering” in the community that people were experiencing and if we could address it. From there we began discussing responses to the leadership [...]
UDS-P in Orlando: Day 1 – pleia2's blog
I actually arrived in Orlando several days ago with MJ so we could go to some Disney parks (which I’ll blog about later!) before he flew home and I went into Ubuntu Developer Summit mode. Sunday evening after visiting Disney’s Animal Kingdom my uncle dropped me off at the UDS hotel and I quickly met [...]
Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Community growth and development
Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Ubuntu on phones, tablets, TV’s and smart screens everywhere
1.5GB DVD Image by default : Blueprints : Ubuntu
Text-Free Boot : Blueprints : Ubuntu
Wayland Tech Preview : Blueprints : Ubuntu
Secure distribution of third-party .debs : Blueprints : Ubuntu
Default Apps Discussion : Blueprints : Ubuntu
LibreOffice Packaging for Precise : Blueprints : Ubuntu
Video Playback : Blueprints : Ubuntu
Reducing number of patches in our packages : Blueprints : Ubuntu
Desktop boot speed : Blueprints : Ubuntu
General Wayland plans : Blueprints : Ubuntu
[Phoronix] Ubuntu 12.04 LTS To Target 750MB Image
Czajkowski » Blog Archive » UDS-P Day 5

Burning Circle Episode 48

This week's episode is quick one referencing UDS-P.

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Burning Circle Episode 48 by The Air Staff of Erie Looking Productions is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

This Week's Random Links

Distribution Release: Linux From Scratch 7.0 (DistroWatch.com News)
News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.
Emergency Alert System Nationwide Test | FCC.gov
Fred Stoller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
House takes Senate's bad Internet censorship bill, tries making it worse
Internet bandwidth report: Have we reached "Peak Netflix?"
LIANZA writes to major policital parties | Lianza
Linux Foundation Releases Document On UEFI Secure Boot - Slashdot
mvar writes "The Linux Foundation today released technical guidance to PC makers on how to implement secure UEFI without locking Linux or other free software off of new Windows 8 machines. The guidance included a subtle tisk-tisk at Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky for suggesting that PC owners won't wan...
Looks like Congress has declared war on the internet — Tech News and Analysis
A new copyright bill proposed in the House would give governments and private corporations unprecedented powers to remove websites from the internet completely, on the flimsiest of grounds, and would also force internet service providers to play the role of copyright police or face penalties.
MultiSystem – Create a MultiBoot USB from Linux | USB Pen Drive Linux
The Politics of Internet Freedom with John Markoff
US Christian broadcaster still believes in shortwave
Are Books Bad at Spreading Ideas? | Toronto Standard | News, Media, Art, Business, Technology, Fashion, Events
Commotion Wireless - Overview - Chambana.net Tech Projects
Conference on the Constitutional Convention : Harvard Law School, September 24-25, 2011
Conversation - Instances
Europe Rediscovering Seditious Libel? « The Volokh Conspiracy
Felicia Day » Blog Archive » RSS Rant
Floodgap Gopher-HTTP gateway gopher://gopher.quux.org/0/Software/Gopher/Mailing List.txt
House takes Senate's bad Internet censorship bill, tries making it worse
How the U.S. Consumes Real-Time Entertainment Online [INFOGRAPHIC]
ITU sees an internet full of developing youth • The Register
Jay Walker Continues Quest To Sue The Internet Into Oblivion With Patents | Techdirt
Kio gopher - KDE UserBase Wiki
Krauthammer’s Take - By NRO Staff - The Corner - National Review Online
Liberal whingers are wrong – we should shut our libraries - Telegraph
Looks like Congress has declared war on the internet | Tech News and Analysis
MT @swardley @cdaffara UEFI being used to prevent Linux installs - bit.ly/rVBzxA is already happening - bit.ly/rLh4C9
Netflix warns of more cancellations, shares drop | Reuters.com
New life breathed into evening news
Obama: Campaigning Like It's 1936 - Forbes
Obama’s leadership: Americans have lost ‘ambition’ and ‘imagination’ – Glenn Beck
Scrambling for spectrum: What to do when we run out • The Register
Speech by ITU Secretary-General - ITU Telecom World 2011:Forum Opening – Pathway to a Connected World
Steven Greenhut: Rural rebellion brewing The Orange County Register
Sunday Mirror must face Kylie's ex-lover in France privacy case • The Register
The next challenge: not too many people, but too few?
The Register: Global internet surveillance skyrocketing | The SWLing Post
The right to dual-boot: Linux groups plead case prior to Windows 8 launch
White House to kill all radio, TV broadcasts on November 9th – Glenn Beck
WikiLeaks' Assange says site might close this year - Technology & Science - CBC News
WikiLeaks halts publishing due to lack of funds - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
WikiLeaks says blockade threatens its existence

Burning Circle Episode 47

This week's episode is a quick news round-up.

Download here (MP3) (ogg), or subscribe to the podcast (MP3) to have episodes delivered to your media player. Although we suggest subscribing by way of a service like my.gpodder.org, you can also subscribe to the Burning Circle via FeedBurner's email tool to receive show posts in your inbox with links to episode audio.

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Burning Circle Episode 47 by The Air Staff of Erie Looking Productions is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

Burning Circle Episode 46

This week's episode brings reflections on the release of Oneiric Ocelot while also mentioning the destruction of the IDE controller on the presenter's desktop.

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Burning Circle Episode 46 by The Air Staff of Erie Looking Productions is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.