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Please fill out the survey:
http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/910
I voted xubuntu, as I currently am on a old, used, laptop. Mine is still with Acer for repairs, it’s been more than 3 weeks now /o\

You can download the logs here:
http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Meetings/20070426
I’ll update this post with the link to the first meeting logs when available.
Next meeting with Jono will be on Tuesday May 1st, 2007, at 16:00 UTC, in #ubuntu-women @ irc.freenode.net.

Updating a previous blog entry:

To keep the terminal available even after launching an application, append the command with &. Ex: nautilus &
To launch an application from a terminal and keep the application running even upon closing the terminal, add nohup before the command. Can be used with the previous tip. Ex: nohup nautilus &
which […]

A little reminder, we will have a meeting on Thursday 19th April, 2007, at 4pm (16:00) UTC in #ubuntu-women IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. This special meeting with Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager for Canonical, is to discuss women’s issues in Ubuntu community.
Everyone welcome (men included, so no fuss ;)).

edit: Jono’s blog entry.

When smart people get to talk, meet, in the middle of the battle field. All for the best, hopefully:
http://www.rageboy.com/statements-sierra-locke.html
Their common concern can be shrunk down to a agreement on not contributing to limiting free and open exchange:
Quoting Kathy:
That said, Chris and I are in complete agreement that it would be tragic if this
incident were used […]

It’s been overheating for quite a while, and did fail on Feisty install. Feisty Server install could go through (90 and 95°C at the end of the install), so it’s booting, and the tech from Acer can run their tests from Windows. I’m not linking to Acer main web page, it has an “Enjoy Vista” […]

A short blog entry, as this has already been posted on planet ubuntu-women:
http://www.geekosophical.net/?p=83
http://timelady.com/blog/2007/03/27/we-challenge-the-culture-of-violence-when/
Kathy Sierra thinks about not blogging anymore due to violent death threats comments on her blog and on other web sites. She even canceled conferences she was due to give.
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2007/03/as_i_type_this_.html
When the worst aspects of real life enters the blogosphere.
This post is for her, […]

Well, once again thanks to my friend Stemp, I came across this great add Novel people have made up during BrainShare Conference this week.
You can have it directly in .mpg or .ogg and read more on Ted Haeger blog post.
Quoting:
All in all, it’s a balance that we hope to have struck right: representing Linux
as sexy […]

From the Ubuntu-Women mailing list:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-women/2007-March/000680.html
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-women/2007-March/000681.html
Selected quotes from Susana:
The GNOME Bugsquad will have a Bug Day from Wednesday, March 21,
16:00 UTC to March 22, 05:00 UTC in #bugs on irc.gnome.org.

You don’t need to be a developer. You don’t need to know anything about
programming. Everyone is welcome!
In order to encourage more ubuntu-women to get involved in […]

That looked a little weird to me, but on several occasions I recommended to check whether > Preferences > Advanced options > Block traffic from reserved addresses on public interfaces was unticked in Firestarter. When ticked, this prevents updates/upgrades.
Reference
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=384303

Along with the new forum theme (Yeah!), there is a new link in the navigation bar that brings you to the complete list of RSS feed. These RSS feeds already existed but not all pulled up on a single page. Enjoy!
http://ubuntuforums.org/cv_rss_feeds.php

BTW: I really like the new theme :)

Breezy, Ubuntu 5.10 will reach its 18 month support next April 13th 2007.
Let’s move on to Feisty :)
From USN mailing list:
Ubuntu announced the release of 5.10 almost 18 months ago, on October
13th. As with the earlier releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing
security and critical fixes for a period of 18 months. The support
period is now nearing […]

Ubuntu-geek has released some ubuntuforums statistics. Woaw, impressive!
We register over 14,000 new accounts each month
We average 22,000 new threads a month
We average about 136,000 new posts each month

We average about 3.7million visits each month
We average about 12.6million page views per month

~74% of our visitors use Firefox
~12% of our visitors use IE
~4% of our visitors use […]

After a month or so, last UWN issue has been published:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue30
Time to get to work and have it translated in French!

Following up on a previous entry, there is a site now that summarizes all the video cards that have been tested and all the ones still needing infos:
http://users.tkk.fi/~jpakkane/ren/

References
ubuntuforums thread
Nouveau drivers
Renouveau Wiki