Monthly Archives: March 2006

Dancing for Human Beings

Lapo Calamandrei created a sample of Tango-ified new-style Human icons. They’re not remarkably different in style, just interpretation. Plus, they fit nicely with the rest of the Tango base theme. Very tasty! New-style Human on the left, Tango-ified versions on the right.

Update: I’ve coined a new name for the new-style Human icon theme… It’s Numan! [...]

Jobs at Canonical

There are a couple of good gigs going at Canonical (corporate sponsor of Ubuntu) at the moment… We’re looking for a Senior Technical Support Engineer and a Quality Assurance Engineer. If you’re down with the brown, care about taking Software Freedom to the entire planet, and want to work with a great bunch of humans, [...]

Fighting on New Ground

Martin Sevior on March 5, 2005:
I just thought I’d tell you that Dom, uwog and I have started a discussion on how to do the collaborative feature you suggested. [...] It should be doable in a reasonable time frame. One month if we focussed all our attention I think. (Dom and uwog may have [...]

The Red Phone

Heard of an interesting GNOME or Ubuntu deployment in your area? Want to report on your own deployment success? Some information is just too important to relay over standard telephone circuits. Heads of state don’t call each other on Hello Kitty mobile phones, do they? When it comes to defending freedom around the world, there’s [...]