Episode 21: OLF recap and there will be rants!

• Intro
• Events - [1DevDayDetroit Nov 4/5th](# "1DevDayDetroit")
• OhioLinuxfest Recap: Thanks for stopping by the booth everyone!
• [Sourceforge](http://sourceforge.net) Interview
- [Elizabeth Naramore](http://www.naramore.net/blog/), Community Developer Manager
• Links of the week - [A Gnome OS? Would you use it?](http://bobthegnome.blogspot.com/2011/09/gnome-os.html) - [Ubuntu with a rolling monthy release, what might work/what will fail](http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/09/ubuntu-technical-board-member-proposes-monthly-ubuntu-release-cycle.ars) - [Mark Shuttleworth on Cloud APIs are like HTTP, don't screw it up.](http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/765) - [Application design, Launchpad thinks smaller services](https://dev.launchpad.net/ArchitectureGuide/Services)
• Rick's Mini Rant: Your anti pattern is called a tool - [Original Article: ORM is an anti-patter](http://seldo.com/weblog/2011/08/11/orm_is_an_antipattern) - [SqlAlchemy](http://sqlalchemy.org)
• Books - Rick: [Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0036S4CNE/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=mitechie-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=B0036S4CNE) - Craig: [Mouse Guard](http://mouseguard.net) by David Petersen
• Music - [Горсти талого снега by Калевала from Кукушкины дети](http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/94940) - [Human Core by HiHate from Against All](http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/97774) - [Natural 20s by Dual Core from Next Level](http://dualcoremusic.com/nerdcore/) - [Eighties Dance Music by The West Exit from Unearthed](http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/westexit-unearthed/) - [Imported by Irate Architect from Visitors](http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/80765) - [The Four Seasons: Concerto in E Major, Op. 8/1, RV 269 - 'Spring': III. Allegro by Lara St. John from Vivaldi - The Four Seasons](http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/lara-fourseasons/) - [Never Happy by Drop Alive from Drop Alive](http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/6357)

Lococast.net Episode 20 - Power is good...

• Intro
• Events
  • Ohio Linuxfest - we'll be there, see us at the Michigan Loco booth
• Interview with Mike Pirnat
  • Howoldismykid.com
• Links/Tools of the week(s)
  • Sass - for firebug
  • Live Reload
  • Retaliation
• Webdev and caching discussion
• Books
  • Rick Gost in the wires
  • Craig What would google do
  • Craig's Kobo saga
• Music
  • Just had to let you know by Lorenzo's Music from Just had to let you know
  • Give me Hell by Drop Alive from Drop Alive
  • Paid in Full (Instrumental) by Breaker from The More I Want, The More I Get (instrumental)
  • Abbey Rhodes by Drop Trio from Big Dipper
  • Liquid Jazz by General Fuzz from Messy's Place
  • Таусень-Рада by Калевала from Ведьма

Lococast takes to the road!

Ohio Linuxfest here we come!

We're all signed up and ready to go. Lococast will be doing on location recording at Ohio Linuxfest again this year. Only this time, we're officially a sponsor and getting a nice shiny table in the main area to setup at. So we'll be working on getting some great clips of some of the great speakers and attendees of the conference.

The official conference is September 9-11. Friday has an array of events you can get involved with. The main thrust of the conference is on Saturday followed by a diversity workshop and LPI exames on Sunday. We'll be down there from some time Friday through Saturday and heading back Sunday.

Why should I go?

Did I mention this little open source conference holds over one thousand people?! Yep, it's a gathering alright. Did I mention there are four tracks and an Open Source Solutions stage? We like to call that, the content. Did I also mention that we're going to be there? You should just go.

But it's too late to go...

Nonsense, I actually just got my hotel room this very day. There's still time to get a reservation, and get your butt to Columbus.

Rick, it's got to be expensive to go then, surely!

Hogwash, if you register now, there's no cost to attend. However, if you're super awesome (and all Lococast listeners are of course) there's a supporter package for \$65. You get fed and a t-shirt as part of that bundle. How could you go wrong?

I'm still not convinced Rick...

Then go check out the show we did last year. Oh that's right, we sat down with the president of System 76. How awesome is that!

Lococast.net Episode 19 - So, we went to PyOhio and all I got was this t-shirt

• Intro
• Events
  • Ohio Linuxfest: Sept 9,10,11
  • 1DevDayDetroit
  • Pycon Speaker Submission Open
• New Libraries/Dev Tools
  • ScratchPad in Firefox 6.0
  • Edit in Github with Ace
  • Requests: HTTP for Humans
• PyOhio Recap
  • Videos of talks
  • Rick's Recap
  • Craig's Recap
  • Bookie Sprint Report

Music

• Intro 1, Intro 2
• The Angst Zeit by Neurotech from Antagonist
• Blues for Bobba by Dark Harvest from Dark Harvest
• California Doll by doublethink from Seeing Red

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

Lococast.net Episode 14 - Sitting at the same table

• Intro
• Events
  • Ubuntu
    Cloud Days
  • USD
    Sponsorship
  • Penguicon
• Freedombox and Humans are the router
• The Banshee saga goes on and on 
  • http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/611
  • http://blog.grossmeier.net/2011/02/24/the-kerfuffle
  • http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/02/24/banshee-in-natty-to-ship-multiple-stores-and-contribute-to-gnome-foundation/
• Books
  • Craig: Pro Python
• Music
  • me one more time by REVENGE from FEST OF REVENGE
  • Robbotica System by Cibernetica from The Ultimate Bio Commando
  • Fallout by Severed Fifth from Nightmares By Design
  • Putrid Pigs by BRUTAL MURDER from Intracranial Total Insanity
  • By yourself by Redmind from Step back from the edge
  • Discipline by Nine Inch Nails from The Slip

Rick's Rants Episode #6: Something for the builders

With all this focus on making desktop linux something for the mass market, is there a chance that we end up removing the great things that drew us to the platform as users/developers? Is it possible to have a product that wins with the mass market as well as the people that there building and developing things? Listen/watch the rant and let me know what you think. Do we need something different for Ubuntu users? What would an "Ubuntu Developer Edition" look like in your mind?