Ubuntu-fr French release party On 30th October, it was time to celebrate the new Koala invasion! Contrary to our Ubuntu Party (next one will be in Paris on 28 and 29th November) opened to any kind of public and especially computer science non specialist, we also have at each release a dinner in Paris with few people more or less in the FLOSS ecosystem. 51 persons came this time and enjoying sharing good time with friends. 08 November 2009
NotifyThis 0.1: notify everything easily! In our French ubuntu party organized by ubuntu-fr, we have approximately 20 free and ready to use computers for people to be able to try ubuntu on their own (we have someone around to help new users). But that's a lot of wasted space for advertising our conferences, scheduled demonstrations, lessons we have during the party! So, the idea was to create a daemon notifying this, resulting in: NotifyThis is here to fulfill this need. 08 October 2009
En direct de la global jam à Paris Hier, Christophe a posté sur le planet ubuntu anglophone quelques photos de Toulouse. Aujourd'hui, c'est au tour de Paris! Cet évènement est bien évidemment également organisé par ubuntu-fr. Au programme: la testing jam sur la version béta de karmic très stable une bug jam, tout comme il y a 6 mois une documentation jam (afin de nettoyer et préparer les 7000 pages du wiki d'ubuntu-fr 04 October 2009
Live from Paris global jam in France Yesterday, Christophe posted some photos of Toulouse jam. Today, it's Paris time! This event is also organized by ubuntu-fr. We currently have: a testing jam on the new rocking karmic beta version a bug jam, as 6 months ago a documentation jam (to clean and prepare documentation reference. 7000 wiki pages to clean up!) Other photos and unattended teacher :) 04 October 2009
Global Jam à Paris ce dimanche 4 octobre ! MAIS QUE SE PASSE-T-IL CETTE SEMAINE SUR UBUNTU ? Eh bien, c'est la Global Jam, évènement regroupant toutes les loco-teams d'ubuntu à travers le monde afin de passer un week-end à apprendre et à contribuer au projet Ubuntu. Et Ubuntu-fr en propose deux en France. Pas besoin d'être technicien/développeur/programmeur/geek/...[très important) et lancez-vous ! Pour cela, plusieurs activités sont proposées : - une testing jam : jeudi prochain sort la version béta[2] de karmic koala (la 9. 28 September 2009
Build your application quickly with Quickly: Inside Quickly part 9 We are now almost ready to land! Here is the last part of this long suit of blog posts about Quickly. Packaging your project It's the last, but not the least issue when you are writing your software: once your application is functional, you surely want to enable other users to install it. Well, you can give it into a tar.gz and run from a trunk, but what about creating a nice package, containing all dependency information for you[1]? 25 September 2009
Build your application quickly with Quickly: Inside Quickly part 8 You have now your amazing and remarkable new Quickly "ubuntu-project" templated project but don't know how to start hacking on it? Here are some tips for you, just there, keep on! Modifying your ubuntu-project edit command Quickly edit is a convenient command to open all of your python files contained in your project in your default editor, ready for editing. Just run: $ quickly edit anywhere in your project tree. 23 September 2009
Build your application quickly with Quickly: Inside Quickly part 7 We previously saw the general concepts around Quickly and more particular its core. So, now, it's time to dive into the different commands of the first Quickly template which is ubuntu-project. What brings me ubuntu-project template? To make programming easy and fun, we've made some opinionated[1] choices about what tools, apis, etc.. to use. In a nutshell: Python for the language pygtk for the UI framework Glade for the UI editor Gedit for the code editor (though this is easy for you to change if you choose another one) bzr for version control Launchpad for code hosting desktopcouch for storage/database (! 21 September 2009
Build your application quickly with Quickly: Inside Quickly part 6 This post will make a little pause in Quickly features reviewing to focus on the template creation. Ever wanted to create your own Quickly template, or to modify slightly the existing ubuntu-project template to make different choices? This part is for you! If you aren't interested, we will begin the ubuntu-project template description next week, see you there! Quickly Templates General stuff Templates can be written in whatever language you want. 18 September 2009
Build your application quickly with Quickly: Inside Quickly part 5 That will be the last part for user on the Quickly Core itself. Before jumping on the ubuntu-project description road, we will see miscellaneous stuff that I couldn't classified later. Miscellaneous Well, Quickly options are quite sparse for the moment (as we don't need more as of today), so, here are what can be useful for you: Help $ quickly --help Of course, as the man page, this will give you the most important information you will certainly need :) 16 September 2009