On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Elliot Murphy
<elliot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi! Launchpad tells me that there are 716 of you subscribed to this
list. Wow...
Some news: We're changing the storage quota for Ubuntu One paid
subscribers from 10GB to 50GB today. At this point the price isn't
changing, and the quota for free subscriptions isn't changing. Hope you
enjoy it!
Awesome. I'm actually going to consider upgrading now.
In the coming weeks, Joshua Hoover will be posting some tutorials about
how to use all the various Ubuntu One enabled features in Ubuntu 9.10
(Karmic):
* Tomboy note syncing (go to the syncronization tab and choose
'tomboy web')
* Contact syncing (go into evolution and notice the Ubuntu One
address book)
* Bookmark syncing (install the 'bindwood' package)
* File syncing and sharing (I expect most folks know how to use
this part already)
* For developers/hackers, some really cool peer-to-peer CouchDB
LAN syncing (check out the desktopcouch-tools package) and the
templates in Quickly for storing app configuration and data in
CouchDB, along with Gtk widgets for accessing CouchDB and Contacts
records in CouchDB.
Any chance that we'll see any special features for media sharing (photos, music, videos, etc.)?
I hope to see many of you at UDS in November in Dallas, TX to get
feedback on Ubuntu One features that made it into Karmic, and to discuss
improvements and more features for Lucid!
Unfortunately, I can't attend UDS on a student's budget, but I'd love to see Ubuntu One take on a more "Human" feel for Lucid. A few ideas:
* Give users a personalized home page where they can show people what documents they're publicly sharing and let other people request access to shares.
* Let users customize their home page with pictures and videos directly from Cheese or F-Spot.
* Help people generate content which they can share with the Ubuntu community. We want users to feel encouraged and excited to take screencasts and shoot tutorials. Participating in the Ubuntu community and helping out people should be easy- just take a screencast or screenshot and hit the conveniently placed "Share with the Ubuntu Community" button.
I guess what I'm trying to say is this: Lets put the "Ubuntu" (as in humanity towards others) back into "Ubuntu One." We have an opportunity to get people involved in something new and exciting. Lets not waste it.
Natan