Episode 66: The Community and Your Contributions
News & Personal Updates
- Miguel de Icaza has created a mono based startup
http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2011/05/mono-reborn-in-xamarin-thanks.html - Yahoo! wins verdict in Bedrock patent trial
http://www.itworld.com/open-source/164853/yahoo-wins-verdict-bedrock-patent-trial - Microsoft to support CentOS in hyper-v
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/microsofts-open-source-love-expands-centos-li - Survey: Half Of Enterprise Software Will Be Open Source Within Five Years
http://www.networkcomputing.com/virtualization/survey-half-of-enterprise-software-will-be-open-source-within-five-years.php - Ubuntu Studio says no to Unity, adopts Xfce
http://www.techworld.com.au/article/386600/ubuntu_studio_says_no_unity_adopts_xfce/?fp=4&fpid=6
Main Topic
- How to contribute to the community:
- Code
- Develop mint tools
- Translate Apps
- Make new apps
- NOTE: Link to Illumination software creator HERE
- Forums/IRC
- Help people
- Get help
- Discuss new mint features
- Ideas/Tutorials/Community site
- http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/search
- Make tutorials
- Build on tutorial
- Suggest new ideas
- vote on ideas (no guarantee that it will go through though)
- Spread the word
- Tell a friend
- Tell a neighbor
- Hand out Cds
- turn on desktop effects when around friends and show off the desktop LMDE/Compiz stuff link here
- Make/join a podcast
- Code
Website of the Week
Tip of the Week
- The recent updates to Debian testing, and thus LMDE, resulted in XChat being uninstalled because of a dependency problem. The LMDE community pulled a fix together pretty quick: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&p=422137#p422137
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