It’s Episode Forty-one of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen and Martin Wimpress and are connected and speaking to your brain.
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In this week’s show…
We look at what’s been going on in the news:
- Let’s Encrypt has entered public beta… (And if you’re interested, there’s an open source tool to monitor the expiration of certificates.)
- Mozilla will stop developing and selling Firefox OS smartphones…
- ownCloud have established a community project with Western Digital to bring self hosted cloud Storage to home users…
- The Linux HomeFront project have a Linux and Open Source ‘Man of The Year 2015’ poll…
- Jim Killock, Executive Director of the Open Rights Group, has launched an Indiegogo crowd funding campaign against mass surveillance in the UK…
- Mozilla Firefox 43.0 brings the long-anticipated integration of GTK+ 3…
We also take a look at what’s been going on in the Ubuntu community:
- Ubuntu Online Search in Unity Dash switched off by default in 16.04…
- Ubuntu Touch LibreOffice DocViewer has been finally released on Ubuntu Store…
- Pebble watch support for Ubuntu Touch is coming…
- Ubuntu Touch to Get FM Support for Aquaris E4.5 and E5 HD…
There are even events:
- 10th Egham Raspberry Jam – Gamification – Sunday 17 January 2016, 14:00 to 17:00 (GMT) – Gartner, Surrey
- SCaLE 14x – January 21-24, 2016 – Pasadena Convention Center, California (including UbuCon Summit – 21st to 22nd)
- FOSDEM 2016 – 30 Jan 2016 to 31 Jan 2016 – Brussels, Belgium
- LinuxConf AU 2016 – Geelong, Victoria, Australia in 2016, between 1st-5th February 2016 at Deakin University’s Waterfront Campus.
- DevConf.cz 2016 – February 5th – 7th 2016 – Brno, Czech Republic
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