S11E21 – The Twenty-One Balloons

No Martin this week as we’ve let him off for good behaviour. So Mark and Alan bring you news, community info and events in this weeks show.

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It’s Season 11 Episode 21 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope and Mark Johnson are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

• We discuss what we’ve been up to recently:
  • Going on holiday via AirBnB
• We discuss the news:
  • Moodle ends partnership with blackboard
  • Steam game is removed after allegations of sneaky cryptocurrency mining
  • New firefox logos
  • Krita removes links to source code from Windows Store listing
• We discuss the community news:
  • Gervase Markham has died
  • Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS is released
  • The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre government has posted some security tips for Ubuntu 18.04
  • Communitheme is now called “Yaru”
• We mention some events:
  • Akademy 2018: 11 to 17 of August 2018 – Vienna, Austria..
  • Debian’s 25th birthday celebration meetups: August – Lots of places.
  • OggCamp!: 18th to 19th of August – Sheffield, UK.
• Image credit: Lyndsey Burk

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