SELF Day 1: Ubuntu

UbuCon

The first day at SouthEast LinuxFest was UbuCon with talks from 3 different Ubuntu/Canonical employees, Mauricio Tavares
and myself. Here is the schedule:

UbuCons, LoCo Teams, and Community Presence: Michael Hall

Michael talked about how to gain more members and strengthen your LoCo Team. As well as what to do at your LoCo meetings.

Arduino Meets USB Passthrough on Planet KVM: Mauricio Tavares

Mauricio talked about using Virtual Machines for development on the Arduino.

Ubuntu in Retrospect: From NotifyOSD to Snappy: Rick Spencer

Rick went over his time with Ubuntu from when he joined back in 2008 and where we are heading to in 16.04.

Developing Apps and Scopes for Ubuntu: Michael Hall

Michael discussed App development, where to start, and the whole platform. He also talked about how the process to approve applications for the Phone have gone from manual to automatic, which greatly decreased the time it took to get an application into the Ubuntu Store

Ubuntu Documentation: A Unified Approach: Aaron Honeycutt

I went over how all the Documentation Teams can use similar languages when writing documentation. Using a markdown language such as ReStructuredText (RST) that is much easier to learn for new users and could gain more contributors.

Application Security in Ubuntu: Why You Should Care: Ken VanDine

Ken VanDine went over the limits and strengths that are gained from how Ubuntu Touch handles installing applications and how it will be and is in Snappy Core.

Ubuntu Open Q&A Panel

A few people with Michael, Ken and I talked about the history of Ubuntu and Unity. As well as problems with hardware over the years like sound cards, bluetooth and more.

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SELF Day 0: Touring

Since Wednesday this week I’ve been in North Carolina with Keith Myers for SELF, a bit early since its on Friday.  So we decided to do some sight seeing around town. First we took the light-train to the Uptown.

It was my first time on a train in any sense and surprisingly it was not bad at all. We took it all the way to the end (which was not that far like 3-4 miles) to the enter of Uptown. We had some lunch at Pure Pizza:

Then we headed over to Discover Place which has some animals, technology, science and a 3D Printer! thought it was down for the day.

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After all this we ended the day with some amazing dessert at Pike’s Old Fashioned Soda Shop.

I also had a glass of Zest Peel at Triple C Brewing which was awesome.

APN changes for Ubuntu Touch

While I love a lot of the work that is going into Ubuntu Touch and the project itself (thus why I want to write what I think should change). From a user of Android and trying out new Carriers after getting out of the vice grip that is Verizon I have had to enter a lot of custom APN’s for my phone.

Some examples:

Cricket:  {

Name: Internet
APN: ndo
Proxy: Not Set
Port: Not Set
Username: Not Set
Password: Not Set
Server: Not Set
MMSC: http://mmsc.aiowireless.net
MMS Proxy: proxy.aiowireless.net
MMS Port: 80
MCC: 310
MNC: 150
Authentication type: Not Set APN type: default,mms,fota,hipri,supl

}

Ting: {

• • Name: Ting Data
  • APN: wholesale
  • APN type: If there is a free form field, enter the following exactly as written without spaces: default,admin,fota,mms,supl,hipri,internet,dun
    • If your device has a series of check boxes rather than a free form field, check all the boxes that correspond with the values listed above. For example: your device has checkboxes for default, mms, supl, wap and ia. Check only default, mms and supl.
• If it’s not set, enter 310 for MCC.
• If it’s not set, enter 260 for MNC.
• For APN protocol, enter IPv6
• For APN roaming protocol, enter IPv6

}

Now lets take a look at home Android (the current version: Lollipop) and yes it is a different UI design language but it is a great example of UI that anyone can use I believe.

Now the Ubuntu Touch APN UI:

Why is MMS and Internet separated?  I believe it should all be together like Android has it. One place for users to set everything they need to have working Data and MMS.  Now I do like that I don’t have to enter all that other information that Android needs. But it is a bit different then Android has it and every Carrier is going to write the APN information in a way that Android needs it.

 

Welcome to my blog

Hello everyone of the internet!

Now while I doubt many people want to hear from me and what is on my mind, I’ll do it anyway since I’m starting to do lots of things with Ubuntu and Kubuntu. I’ll start this blog off with a few key facts about me.

1. Big Community lover
2. Kubuntu user
3. Ubuntu user

Here is my Wiki page[1] and my Launchpad page[2] for some more info about what I do around Ubuntu and Kubuntu.

Alright now that we got the introduction out of the way here comes the fun part! TRIPS! Thanks to the amazing Ubuntu community I’ll be travelling all the way to Spain next month to help the Kubuntu community and the equally amazing KDE community.  Later this week I’ll also be going to SELF (South East Linux Fest) thanks to a local friend of mine[3] who is in the Ubuntu GNOME community.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AaronHoneycutt

[2] https://launchpad.net/~aaronhoneycutt

[3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KeithIMyers

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