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Canonical
20 January 2011

Free Culture Showcase

Ubuntu Notes

Get creative and submit your artwork to this year’s Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase. The theme is Freedom. ...


Canonical
13 January 2011

Can We Appropriate Design?

Ubuntu Research

’Appropriation’ – the taking of a product and using it for one’s own purposes, in ways unintended by the product creators – is implicitly at the core of the philosophy of opensource, because openness provides for change, adaptation and innovation. Design specifications Last year, I conducted several research projects to understand how d ...


Canonical
13 January 2011

Bright, light and beautiful!

Ubuntu Design

That’s what we want the Ubuntu desktops in Natty to feel like. We’re changing things a little bit for the coming release too. We’ll still feature some fantastic photography sourced from our Flickr group but this time we’re reserving at least 3 places for non photographic wallpapers, so things that are rendered or drawn. The ...


Canonical
4 January 2011

Hebrew and Arabic on track

Ubuntu Design

Although I haven’t posted much recently we have still been working away. Besides the latest update to Version 0.7 of the core fonts, which posed some technical challenges, we have now finalised the Hebrew Regular and are making good tracks with the Arabic. You may remember the earlier post on the subject of the Hebrew ...


Canonical
21 December 2010

Canonical and the Ubuntu project say Happy Holidays with the Ubuntu Font Family released for the web

Desktop News

Google and the Ubuntu project have today released the Ubuntu Font Family to the world through the Google Font Directory.Through the magic of the Google Font API any web designer can now pick Ubuntu from the Google Font Directory and bring the beauty and legibility of the Ubuntu fonts to their web properties. Using Ubuntu ...


Marcus Haslam
20 December 2010

Design Museum exhibition London

Ubuntu Notes

Something exciting next year Bruno Maag from Dalton Maag has been asked by the Design Museum London to put on an exhibition of his work. This is a collaboration between ourselves and DM, the exhibition will be in two parts a substantial part of which will be featuring the Ubuntu font. Exhibition from 28th January ...


admin
16 December 2010

Skalica City Hall reduces costs by 70 per cent with Ubuntu

Desktop Case study

Landscape systems management simplifies maintenance Summary Based in Slovakia, the Skalica City Hall IT team must provide a reliable and easy-to-use desktop infrastructure to 120 users. The team found that its existing Microsoft Windows XP-based environment was too expensive to upgrade. It decided to switch to Ubuntu Desktop Edition and a ...


Canonical
16 December 2010

Ubuntu helps KnowledgeTree build client base and reduce costs

Ubuntu Case study

Innovative cloud solution serves 200 times the clients for a quarter of the cost Summary KnowledgeTree wanted to introduce a Software as a Service (SaaS) version of its popular document management solution. Its new infrastructure needed to be scalable, responsive and easy to manage. KnowledgeTree worked with Canonical partner RightScale t ...


Canonical
14 December 2010

Surveying contributions

Ubuntu Design

If you have ever contributed to an open source project or wish you had got round to it then please can you fill in this survey? http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/36WWXCF It isn’t a quick one, but if you have about 20 minutes to spare then your response would be very much appreciated. I will publish the results on ...


Canonical
10 December 2010

Certification of HP Desktops

Ubuntu Engineering

The well-earned accolade that it ‘just works’ is one of the reasons that Ubuntu has been propelled to the position of the most widely shipped and installed Linux desktop. Behind that accolade are an army of community and professional developers working closely towards the goal of offering a superb quality desktop experience. For many plan ...


Jane Silber
8 December 2010

Thanks and good luck to Matt Asay

Ubuntu Canonical News

Matt Asay joined Canonical in February this year and quickly proved instrumental in aligning strategic goals and operational activities. Unfortunately for us, Matt will be leaving Canonical December 17 for the lure of an early-stage start-up. While his time here has been relatively short, we all appreciate the positive impact he has had i ...