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For graphics testing on Ubuntu I typically ssh into one or more test machines, fiddle with them, reboot them, and then re-ssh into them. Since the machine won’t accept ssh connections until it’s pretty far along in boot, I often have to re-ssh multiple times. Instead, I made a script that retries ssh until it succeeds.

#!/bin/bash # pingssh if [ -z "${1}" ]; then echo "Usage: pingssh " fi host=$1 while : ; do count=50 while ! ping -qc1 -W1 $host > /dev/null; do echo -n "?" sleep 0.2 count=$(( count - 1 )) done echo ssh ${host} ret=$? if [ $ret = 0 ]; then exit 0 elif [ $ret = 255 ]; then sleep 0.5 fi echo -n "!" done

Looking through a nice blog by Andreas Schilling, I found this classic linked:



It catches very well why we're here, and perhaps why you are reading this blog.
Also, if you are mentoring in GSoC or Season of KDE this year, remind yourself what motivates you and your students, both. We all want to make the world a better place.

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The results are in.  The Kubuntu Council is selected from among and by Kubuntu members.  There are six council members.  Each serves a two year term, so we elect half the council each year.  The winners are:

• Philip Muskovac (yofel)
• Rohan Garg (shadeslayer)
• Valorie Zimmerman (valorie)

Congratulations and welcome.  All three are first time council members.

The Kubuntu Council is the governing body of Kubuntu. The Kubuntu Council has three primary roles:

• Approve development plans for future Kubuntu releases
• Approve Kubuntu membership applications
• Resolve disputes within the Kubuntu project

Fortunately, we had our own mini vUDS today so we’ve now got a good idea what we want to have the new council approve.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #317 for the week May 13 – 19, 2013, and the full version is available here.

In this issue we cover:

• Announcing the Ubuntu Billboard Photo Contest
• Ubuntu Developer Summit 13.05 Closing Plenary and Track Summaries
• Ubuntu Open Week for Raring: Almost Here!
• Ubuntu Stats
• Getting the Ubuntu Advocacy Kit to 1.0
• Raring Party in Barcelona
• Daniel Holbach: Our Community Website
• Canonical Design Team: Ubuntu.com update
• Jono Bacon: Video Demo of Unity 8 on Mir and on a Galaxy Nexus
• The Fridge: Gandi now offers discounts for Ubuntu Members
• Canonical Design Team: System Settings for Ubuntu Phone
• Xubuntu: Looking towards Xubuntu 13.10
• Jono Bacon: Dogfooding the Ubuntu Phone: My (Early) Experience
• Ringtail from scratch
• Exploring Ubuntu Touch, the other Linux OS for your phone
• Google Glass rooted and hacked to run Ubuntu live at Google I/O
• What to Expect from Unity in Ubuntu 13.10
• In The Blogosphere
• Other Articles of Interest
• Upcoming Meetings and Events
• Updates and Security for 10.04, 12.04, 12.10 and 13.04
• And much more!

The issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

• Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph
• Paul White
• John Kim
• Benjamin Kerensa
• David Morfin
• Amber Graner
• The Alpaca Herder
• Jim Connett
• And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

Except where otherwise noted, content in this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons License

Since Jack was born my music has taken something of a back seat. Recently I got the itch to write a new song and here is my first metal tune since he was born. It is an instrumental named after his onesie with chimp feet. I wanted to enjoy writing a song that spins around a little bit without the need to make it radio-length. As such it weighs in at just under 7 1/2 minutes. Anyone want to make a music video for it.

I wrote and recorded this in my home studio and played the guitars and bass; drums are programmed this time around. Licensed as CC-BY-SA.

Download It Here

It’s been a manically busy few weeks so I’m not going to write much today, just share some photos from some of the engagement sessions that I’ve photographed recently. In no particular order.

Rachel and Dan are getting married later this year in Cambridge. We went to a nature reserve near Basingstoke for their photo session.

Sarah and Marcus are getting married next month. For their photo session we revisited the site of their first date, and where Marcus had proposed. Right there on that very bench!

Andrew and Callum are getting married this week. When I went into their flat and saw the rows of Doctor Who DVDs on their shelves I knew we were going to get along. We went to a Doctor Who location for this photo session.

Lucy and James got married at the Tithe Barn in Petersfield, but we went to the Queen Elizabeth Country Park for their engagement photo session. The morning sun poured through the mist and created some rather special lighting.

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In just nine years, Ubuntu has become one of the most popular Linux distributions in the world with millions of users and a thriving community. Ever wondered what all the fuss is about? How have we achieved such a great feat in such a short space of time? Here’s where you can find out. Ubuntu Open Week is a week of IRC tuition and Q+A sessions all about getting involved in the rock-and-roll world that is the Ubuntu community. We organise this week for the beginning of a new release cycle to help new contributors get involved.

Ubuntu Open Week takes place in #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net (#ubuntu-classroom-chat for questions), on May 20th-21st, from 13 to 18 UTC each day. We will be having people from different teams in, such as the Quality team, the Development team, the News team, and more! We are also going to have an “Ask Mark!” session with Mark Shuttleworth, the Ubuntu Community founder!

During the “Ask Mark!” session, community members are invited to ask Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) questions about the Ubuntu project. You will ask your questions in #ubuntu-classroom-chat with the prefix QUESTION: and philipballew will be selecting specific questions to pass along to Mark in the main #ubuntu-classroom channel.

To check out the full schedule and learn more about the event, visit the Ubuntu Open Week page on the Ubuntu wiki (we’re finishing to nail the schedule!)

We hope to see you there! But if not, as always, logs will be available after each session, and linked to the schedule at the end of each day.

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