Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] RMS vs. Amazon search results feature
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 09:55:38PM -0800, Jono Bacon wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Grant Bowman grant...@ubuntu.com wrote: For discussion: http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/12/07/on-richard-stallman-and-ubuntu/ I am trying to reserve judgement but the 12.10 install I tried seemed to sacrifice privacy a little too easily and I don't like the idea of money being made by default from Ubuntu for Canonical. At the same time I don't agree with all of what RMS said but some of what he says is true for me. http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do What do you think? I don't like the idea of money being made by default from Ubuntu for Canonical What is the objection about Canonical making money in Ubuntu given the millions of dollars invested into Ubuntu? My objection to the monetized search feature is that it represents a further shift from the free software being the product and some of the users being the customers toward the other business model where the users' attention is the product and various 3rd parties are the customers - making money in Ubuntu instead of on Ubuntu. I think there are inevitable conflicts of interest down that path, and I'm disappointed to see Canonical going there. The dearth of useful remote scopes installed by default in 12.10 coupled with the fact that the Amazon scope is opt-out instead of opt-in makes it seem as if these conflicts of interest are already in effect. ~leif signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Starting an Ubuntu Hour in San Francisco
On 06/18/2010 08:24 PM, Elizabeth Krumbach wrote: Hey folks, Following in Nathan's footsteps I'll be hosting the first San Francisco Ubuntu Hour this upcoming Tuesday from 6-7PM at The Roastery on New Montgomery St: Date: Tuesday, June 22nd Time: 6-7PM Location: The Roastery 199 New Montgomery St (between Natoma St Howard St) San Francisco, CA 94105 w00t! This is conveniently timed and located near the SF MySQL meetup which might also interest some people on this list: Topic: SSDs, the fastest disks and Mysql http://www.sfmysql.org/calendar/13605079/ 7:00 PM Tuesday June 22 CBS Interactive 235 2nd St San Francisco, CA 94105 ~leif -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Installfest @ Noisebridge on May 30
On 05/20/2010 07:41 PM, Christian Einfeldt wrote: Could we put Al's logo and contact info onto the CDs and the sleeves? Christian, I'm volunteering my time to promote free software, not a business who bought blank CDs and pizza in exchange for their logo being placed on CD sleeves. Luckily, I don't think we have any *need* to accept donations which would require us to become providers of advertising space in exchange for them, so I don't see why we should. I hope this doesn't discourage your friend from attending! See you there, if not sooner (going to Maker Faire?), ~leif -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Installfest @ Noisebridge on May 30
On 05/20/2010 05:58 PM, Grant Bowman wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Leif Rygel...@synthesize.us wrote: I've just updated the Noisebridge wiki to reflect the date we picked for this: Sunday, May 30th. https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Lucid_Lynx_Installfest So far we've got four volunteers but zero attendees RSVP'd... any ideas as to where else this should be announced? ~leif Hi Leif, Thanks for hosting this Installfest! The regular Wed night Linux Discussion meeting last night was fun. Cool, sorry I don't usually make it to that; I should do more often. Maybe I'll see you at five minutes of fame in a couple hours from now? http://5mof.net/archive/2010/05/17/may-2010-schedule/ I've already forwarded this to the Berkeley LUG mail list and will be forwarding to other local lists as well. There are numerous groups that might be interested in participating or who's members might be interested in some hands on help. Thank you for specifying a start time of around 11:00. Any thoughts on a time which people should not arrive after? We should give ourselves some time to finish up and then join the team IRC meeting at 7:00 PM. I intend to stay at noisebridge until around 8:00 or 8:30 depending on how long the meeting runs. I'll stay that long as well, but perhaps we should specify a cutoff time on the wiki for starting on new installs... say, 5pm? Maybe some http://dutycycle.org/ folks can help out with some promotion or at least some recorded music to keep the tradition going from the last few releases. If we have some music files we might be able to put together a package hosted on launchpad.net that people can apt-get install. I know how to make this happen. Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam Sounds great! ~leif -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
[Ubuntu-US-CA] Installfest @ Noisebridge on May 30
I've just updated the Noisebridge wiki to reflect the date we picked for this: Sunday, May 30th. https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Lucid_Lynx_Installfest So far we've got four volunteers but zero attendees RSVP'd... any ideas as to where else this should be announced? ~leif -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] introduction
On 04/19/2010 04:57 PM, Elizabeth Krumbach wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Leif Rygel...@synthesize.us wrote: I'm a member of Noisebridge (www.noisebridge.net) where Jesse Zbikowski suggested (and I agree) that we should have a Lucid installfest. We already have a netboot server there with a variety of OSes; I'll be adding the beta Lucid desktop image to its menu soon and will update it with the release as soon as it's available. I think this is a great idea, I was down at Noisebridge for an SF-LUG meeting a few weeks back, great space. Do you have some dates you were shooting for? I find installfests a few weeks after release tend to work well since the community tends to shake out the bugs by then so then you either have fixes or documented work-arounds. Plus it gives us time to plan and promote. Jesse is unavailable on the weekend of May 15/16 and Maker Faire is the following weekend, so if we want to do it in May we've got the weekends of May 8/9 (only 1 week after release) or 29/30. Giving heed to the advice above, we should go with the last weekend in May. Any preferences on Saturday vs Sunday? Assuming that one of these days will work, I've taken the liberty of creating a page on the Noisebridge wiki about it: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Lucid_Lynx_Installfest Anyone who wants to volunteer to help, feel free to add your name to that page. Unless there are any objections, I'll tentatively announce this event at the Noisebridge weekly meeting tomorrow night. ~leif -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
