Laura Cowen, Alan Pope, and Mark Johnson are in Studio L for Season Seven, Episode Twenty-Three of the Ubuntu Podcast!

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In this week’s show:-

• We take a look at what’s been happening in the news:
  
  
  
  • Google researchers have published a paper on their “Knowledge Vault” project…
  
  
  • A Kickstarter campaign has been launched for “Operating System U”…
  
  
  • Twitter has made its analytics tools available to everyone, not just those paying for adverts…
  
  
  • Snapdeal.com is selling the Intex Cloud Fx phone featuring FirefoxOS for 2000 Rupees…
  
  
  • Mozilla has rolled out its “Sponsored Tiles” feature in the Firefox Nightly channel…
  
  
  • Munich councillors have refuted claims that they are to switch back to Microsoft products…
  
  
  • A group of celebrities have reportedly had nude photos of themselves leaked online after they were stolen, probably, from The Cloud…
  
  
  • BBC has unveiled a series of resources for teaching computing and programming to children…
  
  
  
  


• Although Tony is still being away, gaming news has returned!
  
  
  
  • Hardware manufacturer MSI has released its X99S Gaming 7 motherboard, stating it to be “SteamOS ready out of the box”…
  
  
  
  


• We take a look at what’s been happening in the community:
  
  
  
  • Didier Roche has blogged about the Ubuntu Developer Tools Center…
  
  
  • Daniel Holbach has announced a new ubuntu community team mailing list…
  
  
  • Apt repository is now available for trying out bleeding-edge Mono packages…
  
  
  • Haiku OS developer has ported its BeOS-inspired API layer to run on Linux kernel…
  
  
  
  


• And there’s an event called OggCamp:
  
  
  
  • OggCamp 2014 – 4th-5th October – Oxford, UK
  
  
  • Go take a look at the website for links to all the lovely OggCamp sponsors.
  
  
  • If you’d like to sponsor Oggcamp 2014, contact details are on the website.
  
  
  • As is the list of the speakers so far confirmed for the scheduled track.
  
  
  • There are a few discounted hotel rooms still available. See OggCamp.org for details.
  
  
  • If you want to help out in any way, contact @oggcamp
  
  
  
  

We’ll be back next week, when we’ll be discussing whether communities suck, and we’ll go through your feedback.

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