Lococast.net Episode 18 - Passwords, hashes, and Google+ oh my!

• Intro
• Events
  • PyOhio: July 30,31
  • Ohio Linuxfest: Sept 9,10,11
  • Ubuntu Global Jam: Sept 2,3,4
• Securing user's passwords in applications
  • Instapaper - FBI had their servers
  • bcrypt
  • scrypt ticket
  • GPUs Discussion
• Bookie status report
  • Hosted Bookie
  • Weekly Status Reports
  • Twitter: BookieBmarks
• Google+
• Books
  • Craig: The Python Standard Library
  • Rick: Start Small, Stay Small, Hands on Node.js, iWoz

**Music**
- [Around the Oak by Drakum from Around the Oak](http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/90152) - [Sweet Mary by Moray Eel from Priest Hunter](http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/91599) - [Bye Baby by Patrulha66 from Revolution](http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/40514) - [Deteriorate to Gain by The Apocryphal Order from The Apocryphal Order](http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/88893) - [Bruises (Do It Wrong) by Unwoman from Unremembered](http://unwoman.bandcamp.com)

Lococast.net Episode 17 - Extreme Blabbermouth Edition

• Intro
  • Skype bought by Microsoft?

• Events

  • Penguicon Recap
  • PyOhio (call for talks now on! Sponsorship available!)
  • Loco Takes over MUG - looking for short talk ideas

• Feedback, send it people feedback@lococast.net

• Natty is out and people are responding, loads of stories:
• Craig and his newfound unity love
• Ubuntu studio moving to XFCE vs Unity: link
• Is quality an issue? How can we help? Alpha vs Beta testing link
• Ubuntu power users project:
  • http://www.mikesplanet.net/2011/05/ubuntu-power-users-getting-the-most-from-ubuntu/
  • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerUsers
• Rick kicks Ubuntu to the curb/server (How's Arch?)
• UDS happened
• Documentation cleanup , too much old bad info, delete 5 wiki pages link
• Amazon Lending, Kindle books outselling paper books on amazon? thoughts?
• Bookie! (http://bmark.us)
• Miscellany
  • Confirmed: Microsoft Says It Will Open Source VB 6 link
• Books
  • Craig
    • Challenges for Game Designers
  • Rick:
    • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
    • Node: Up and Running: Scalable Server-Side Code with JavaScript
    • Snow Crash. (audio book)
    • The Wisdom of Crowds (audio book)

Music in this Episode

• Mercurial Girl by Five Star Fall from Automatic Ordinary
• Thannheimer by The Dino Haak Collective from Filmscore
• Infralove by Diablo Swing Orchestra from The Butcher's Ballroom
• Oh, god. by Cloudkicker from Beacons
• Uh Oh

Lococast Episode 16: Interview with Greg Grossmeier on Locos, Copyright, and Open Data

Craig and Rick take a trip out to Ann Arbor Michigan to chat with the Michigan Loco leader Greg Grossmeier. We chat about how starting up a loco has been.

We also get into his current work for the University of Michigan. Lots of information about their http://open.umich.edu program.

Next we chat about his internship and work at Creative Commons along with some great info on Open Data.

Finally, we wrap up with some talk of govenance, and what he meant in his blog post about the Banshee/Canonical kerfuffle

Other Links

• http://www.sherlockian.net/acd/copyright.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft#Copyright
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Living_Dead#Copyright_status

Music: Ac33d by Micronaut from Transformer

Lococast.net Episode 15 - Interview Jason Smith about Unity

• Intro
• Events
  • Global Jam, we're doing one, 10 jams so far
  • Penguicon

• Interview with Jason Smith

  Jason is a developer for the Developer Experience (DX) team with
  Canonical and works on the Unity desktop shell. In particualar the
  launcher. We ask him how it's going, what the plans are for Natty, and what
  we should be looking forward to in Natty+1.

  Links Jason mentions in the interview

  • Unity milestones
  • Cool new scrollbars in Unity

• Books

  • Craig: Nadda
  • Rick: Pro Python
• Music
  • Rearm Machines by Sequence The Silence from Bipolar Llama
  • Watch the Burn by Sekshun 8 from Black Winged Butterfly
  • Condemned by Wendigo from Audio Leash
  • Completely mysticism by Dr Kuch from Analog Disease

We need your help. Craig and I have spoken our concerns about what Unity means to the future of Ubuntu. Thursday March 24th, we'll be interviewing Jason Smith of Canonical who works on the Unity team. We'd like to know what you'd ask him if you got a chance.

• How close are things to planned functionality for Natty?
• What kind of testing is going on behind the scenes?
• What types of users is Canonical targeting as the average Unity user?

Let us know what you'd like us to ask. Submit your question here in the comments or email the question to feedback@lococast.net.

Thanks for your help!

Pycon 2011 Sprints Interview: Michael Foord, Canonical, OS Split Personality, and Mocking

In our last in the series of interview from PyCon 2011, Lococast sits down with Michael Foord and talk about some of the cool things he's working on at Canonical, how the new version of his Python mocking library Mock is doing, and a little bit about what's going on with IronPython in a post-Microsoft sanctioned project era.

Music

• A Thousand Nails by Aathma from The Call of Shivà
• The End Of The Snake by Aathma from The Call of Shivà

Pycon 2011 Sprints Interview: Mark Ramm from Sourceforge and Allura, the new forge

Lococast got a chance to sit down and ask Mark Ramm about the new open source project forge, Allura. They managed to get it out to the public right before PyCon and were working hard on it during the sprints at PyCon 2011. Find out what makes it unique and what they're up to.

Pycon 2011 Sprints Interview: Chris McDonough from Pyramid Web Framework

Lococast sits down with Chris McDonough from Pyramid Web Framework at the Pycon 2011 sprints. We talk about what's brought around Pyramid 1.0, how the reception has been to the great work, and where Pyramid is looking to go from here.

Get a t-shirt from the online store.

Music:

• Snake bite by Gleb Bones from The fine art of wasting timeSnake bite by Gleb Bones from The fine art of wasting time
• G Trap by Cyber Snake from Dolls & Lovers

PyCon 2011: Mike Pirnat Interviews John DeRosa - Busing USA

Rick joins Mike Pirnat from the From Python Import Podcast to interview John DeRosa as he discusses his adventure tweeting his bus ride from Seattle to PyCon 2011 in Atlanta. What makes a crazy man do such a thing? What could possibly go wrong? Find out!

Music in this episode:

• New Cycle Day (bonus track) by Sequence The Silence from Bipolar Llama
• Three Blocks by Sekshun 8 from Black Winged Butterfly
• Music request sample

Lococast and From Python Import Podcast PyCon 2011 Wrap Up

Lococast joins forces with the great guys of From Python Import
Podcast to go over all the hotness of PyCon 2011. Best talks, best open
spaces, and just a bunch of tired brain melted Python devs.

Intro Sound