Looking Glass Solutions in Canberra is running a course to introduce new users to the Ubuntu desktop environment. We will be covering the basics of Ubuntu Linux, from installation to web browsing, email and using the OpenOffice.org office suite.

When: September 18th 2007
Where: 134 Bunda St, Canberra City, ACT
Cost: $200 per head

Bookings essential!

Phone: (02) 6262 6308
Email: andy@lgsolutions.com.au
Web: http://www.lgsolutions.com.au

Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Meetings

Ubuntu 7.04 discs have arrived in Australia for local distribution

see

http://ubuntu.org.au/cds/

for more info

As I mentioned a while ago, we ran out of stickers. However, this bug is now fixed as I have received the new batch of stickers.

I have a healthy pile of envelopes here awaiting their return journey to their senders, and I will do this in the next few days. (Update: this has been done)

If you have not yet sent in for stickers and would like some, simply send a Self-Addressed, Stamped envelope to:

Sticker Offer
PO Box 1412
Lavington, NSW, 2641

If you are not living in Australia, please click the headline to read the full news item.

Thankyou :)

The author of this Sydney Morning Herald article retries Linux having first done so a few years ago and is very pleasantly surprised.

As many of you know, System76 has provided Ubuntu-Au with a supply of 'Powered By' stickers. These have been quite popular and as a result, we are now fresh out. But fear not, there are more on the way.

Some of you may not know, but we here at Ubuntu-Au have our own blog planet. However, at the time of writing, our planet only aggregates two blogs. We want more!

This is the fortnightly Ubuntu-Au IRC meeting, held in #ubuntu-au on irc.freenode.org. The agenda can be viewed viewed here.

The time specified here is Sydney/Melbourne time, Click here for more timezones

"Starting in June, the offices of France's MPs will feature computers using the Ubuntu operating system and other tailored open-source applications"

Read more at Business Week here.

Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) is on the cover DVD of the April 2007 edition of PC User magazine. Installation instructions are in the magazine.

Thanks to Hendo for the heads-up.