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On the 24th of January the #Ubuntu-classroom channel on IRC has hosted a session introducing the local Italian branch of the Ubuntu-Women project. The session was hosted by Flavia Weisghizzi (deindre) and Silvia Bindelli (dolasilla), who told us the reasons behind their efforts, where this idea came from and how they’ve worked so far to get the outcome they achieved.

Silvia and Flavia have been deeply driven in this initiative by the wish to overcome linguistic and cultural barrier that an English mailing list may represent for non native-English speakers. Moreover, a localized branch of Ubuntu Women working in the scope of a LoCo team has the key purpose of building a bridge between local community and international one, by translating in both directions news and initiatives and supporting women who have shown interest in Ubuntu in removing the difficulties that they may encounter due to cultural and/or communication mismatches.

The mentoring program is probably one of the most interesting activities they have undertaken among others: the Ubuntu Woman-it list has become a starting point for many LoCo team’s activities, where female newcomers are oriented in choosing the right team in which to be involved and helped in moving first steps toward that direction. Another initiative is the collaboration with an Italian blog, GirlGeekLife.com, which is publishing articles about Ubuntu and its applications written by UbuntuWomen-it members. Women presence itself in FOSS is often very inspiring: this is the reason why they got going on speakers tutoring project, whose aim is encouraging women participation in FOSS related events and demonstrating that, in spite of every prejudice, women are first class citizens in FOSS world.

Ubuntu Women-it mailing list is subscribed so far by approximately 40 followers, both women and men: even if someone has implied that this was a way to self-isolate women, generally most people were absolutely supportive, and very happy to give their hand to improve such an initiative and getting more women involved.

It’s easy to comprehend the great value of this kind of initiatives, especially in those countries, like Italy, in which machismo writes behavioural rules between the two sexes: keep on considering women a not very remarkable minority, is really an obstacle de facto to outreach of new women, and a certain loss for FOSS community.

You can find out more about Ubuntu Women-it project on http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org/GruppoPromozione/UbuntuWomen

Full logs from this session available here.

Judge James Robart in the Microsoft v. Motorola litigation in Seattle has ruled now on Microsoft's partial summary judgment motion that they held the hearing about last week. He has -- surprise, surprise -- once again ruled for Microsoft. He has not yet ruled on the other issue the hearing was about, the issue of the Google license agreement with MPEG LA.

I agree with him in the abstract, so to speak, that software patents require increased disclosure. He has ruled that the means-plus-function software patents Motorola was using in this litigation are, without specifically disclosed algorithms, invalid in that he decided the algorithms claimed were insufficient as vague: Accordingly, where the disclosed structure corresponding to a means-plus-function element is a computer-implemented algorithm, the algorithmic structure must be disclosed....

Because neither the examples of a decoder, nor the definition of a decoder, identified in the specification amount to anything more than a programmed general computer or a functional description, the court requires disclosure of an algorithm corresponding to the "means for decoding" and "means for using" limitations....Although the specification describes how one of skill in the art would ascertain what blocks to consider when decoding, the specification provides no guidance as to how one of ordinary skill would actually decode the considered blocks. Thus, the court concludes that the specification contains no disclosure that supports Motorola's proposed algorithm (or any other algorithm) for corresponding structure to the decoding function required by the "means for selectively decoding" limitation of claim 13 of the '375 Patent. Means plus function claims are exactly what the USPTO is asking the software community to comment on, with the view to improving software patents, and one suggestion we at Groklaw are sending in is the need for increased disclosure, and not just for the type of patent the judge thinks needs more specific disclosure. But if the world decides that any time the patent says something like "on a computer" that you need to provide specific algorithms, so be it. From his mouth to God's ears, as they say.

You doubt that software patents need to go? Look at all the trouble they are causing.

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As many of you may know, some of the sessions we have during events, or even standalone sessions, may be hosted with Google+ Hangouts on Air. This is because we are collaborating with the Ubuntu on Air! team to give the opportunity of showcasing and demonstrating processes live to our instructors. But don’t worry, we will still be having IRC-based sessions. In this post, you will find a bit more of information about this collaboration.

Ubuntu on Air! is an online show which can be found at here. As said before, it consists of Google+ Hangouts on Air on different topics, including Classroom events. So, when an instructor decides he or she wants to do a live session so they can demonstrate a process, the event will be added, both to the Ubuntu on Air! and to the Classroom calendar. In case of the Classroom calendar, it will have an [On Air] tag before the session name; same happens for the Ubuntu on Air! calendar, just that the tag is [Classroom] in this case.

While the session lasts, the video can be streamed at ubuntuonair.com. All discussion for Ubuntu on Air! Classroom sessions will take place at #ubuntu-classroom-chat on irc.freenode.net, so you don’t have to move around.. There will be an embed IRC widget on the webpage so you can have everything on your browser, and it will point to the channel. Questions should be asked the same way as on an IRC-based session, all of them should be prefixed with the word ‘QUESTION:’ without quotes. In this case, the instructor or the host will read and answer the question aloud, on the live stream.

After the session, a recording of it will be automatically uploaded to the Ubuntu on Air! YouTube Channel, and can be watched at any time.

Make sure to subscribe to Ubuntu on Air! on YouTube and follow us on Twitter to get constant updates on all of our sessions.

If you have any doubts about this collaboration you can send me an email to joseeantonior AT ubuntu DOT com, or ping JoseeAntonioR on IRC. Happy learning!

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LibreOffice 4

LibreOffice is a productivity suite for professional quality that you can download and install for free. There is a large base of satisfied LibreOffice users worldwide, and is available in over 30 languages ​​and for all major operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, Suse, …).

You can download, install and distribute LibreOffice freely, without fear of infringing copyright.

Installing

Download deb Packages: http://es.libreoffice.org/descarga/?nodetect

Remove LibreOffice:

sudo apt-get remove –purge libreoffice

Untar the file

tar xvf LibreOffice_4*.tar.gz

Install:

cd LibreOffice_4.0.0.3_Linux_x86-64_deb/DEBS
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
cd desktop-integration
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

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