Well this weekend I linked up to the local Jozi WUG (Wireless User Group). Now Google doesn't know absolutely everything I do online :) Take that marketers! Anyway it was a great project. A lot of fun. What a great weekend, WUG, soccer world cup finals and beer!

Episode 21 - Interview with ThePenguinTrail.org Organisers Veera Uusoksa and Armi Korhonen -

Episode 21 - Interview with ThePenguinTrail.org Organisers Veera Uusoksa and Armi Korhonen

 Well episode 20 is out! We had a great interview with intrepid Alastair Otter, editor and founder of Tectonic, the online news source for the open source community in South Africa.

 Just a quick blog post to let people know episode 18 is out. There is more info in the show notes. As per usual I opine on the evils of the world and wonder why we can't live together as one happy penguin colony?

 Well some of you may be wondering why there has been a month or more delay in getting the latest episode (17) of OTE out. It is totally my fault that it has taken this long as I got side tracked in a "side" project I started.

Project Calamari ,a front-end to squid log files, currently in beta, is the result of a month or so of effort. It is essentially designed to allow the user to easily interrogate squid access log files by starting at an aggregate level and drilling-down into the detailed log records.

 Some independent game companies got together to try and experiment with selling a DRM free, game bundle direct to the public with the need for a middle man. The humble indie bundle is an awesome social experiment in new ways of distributing games and self-regulation. As part of the experiment they allow consumers to pay as much as they want, and in addition to select how the money is to be distributed.

Well we certainly are trying to keep up with our new years resolution to get more podcasts out. The latest episode can be found here. Darlene and I chat about video editors in linux and the various projects we are busy with at the moment. See show notes for more detail and url links. 

Well here is the video I created on my experience loading Debian Linux on the NAS SS4000e. During the process of creating this video I moved from Kino to Open Shot as my video editor. Editing in Open Shot was a lot easier but it seems to be unable to co-ordinate the sound and video correctly, resulting in sections with empty frames and, of course,  making the vidoe look dubbed.

Well a belated Happy New Year to everyone and I hope 2010 is better than 2009. I don't suppose that will be hard though given it was such a bad year. In keeping with tradition I made a whole bunch of new year resolutions and one of them is to put more time into the OTE web site and the podcast. The only prerequisite for this is to first make some more money so as to have more free time!

In this interview Darlene and I chat to Luis Lopez from the Ubuntu Columia Team, and former sales engineer at Canonical, about Ubuntu and FLOSS in Colombia. More information about Luis, and how to contact him, can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/luis_lopez

Get the podcast interview with Luis Lopez here.