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Ubuntu App Developer Week starts today at 1600 UTC. Find out more about the schedule of events and how you can join in

The Ubuntu Community would be incomplete without you, the user. Amber Graner, co-author of The Official Ubuntu Book, 6th Edition, shows you how to find out more about a LoCo (Local Community) Team in your area. This article compliments Chapter 7 of the 6th Edition of The Official Ubuntu Book.

The Ubuntu 11.04 desktop isn't the only thing with a new look in Ubuntu today; as Inayaili León points out on Canonical's blog site, the Ubuntu website gets a new look as well.

If you host your own photo gallery using either Piwigo or Gallery software and you happen to use an Android device, the ReGalAndroid app is right up your alley. Despite its spartan interface, this is a rather capable app that offers a few handy features. For starters, it supports the Piwigo and Gallery2 applications as well as the new Gallery3 release. The app supports full-screen viewing and it can cache data to speed up navigation.

Kate Stewart, Ubuntu Release Manager, today announced the availability of Ubuntu 11.04 codenamed Natty Narwhal.

The Gnome project announced that the Gnome 3.0 release included more contributions by women than any previous release, an increase the project attributes its new internship program.

Shane Remington, co-founder of the Peppermint operating system (OS), announced plans to merge the previous two Peppermint OSes into one OS to be released as Peppermint Two.

Outsiders often criticize free software because it offers too much choice. Choice confuses people, they say, and free software would be more efficient if everyone concentrated on improving the best application in each category instead of developing alternatives. To me, this argument has always seemed conditioned by monopoly, but recently I found reason to believe that it couldn't be more wrong.

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS server release is nearing the end of its support life; Mark Shuttleworth, Founder of Ubuntu and Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager summarize what this milestone release meant to the Ubuntu project and community.

Devised by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s, the pomodoro technique gathered many followers. The popularity of this time management method lies in its simplicity: work on a single task for 25 minutes and then take a 5-minute break. After four 25-minute sessions, take a 15-minute break. Not exactly rocket science.

Kate Stewart, Ubuntu Release Manager at Canonical, announced in an email to the Ubuntu devel announce mailing list that the Beta 2 of Ubuntu 11.04 was ready and now available for download. This is the last Beta before final release and 11.04 will move from Beta to Final release on April 28th with no planned Release Candidate for this cycle. I've included in total Stewart's email to the mailing list.

Zorin announces it's own commercial Linux computer called the Zorin PC. This PC ships with the Zorin OS by default and seeks to be the gateway for Linux adoption with Windows users.

Texas Instruments (TI) announces the OpenLink project which focuses on providing a wide range of wireless connectivity solutions for Linux.

Red Hat announces IBM, Accenture, Alfresco, Cisco, HP and Intel are on the roster to deliver keynotes at the seventh annual Red Hat Summit and JBoss World to be held May 3-6, 2011 in Boston, MA.

A security advisory warning has been issued by Adobe for a critical vulnerablity in its Flash Player 10.2.153.1 and more.

Looking for a way to get involved in the Ubuntu Community? Ahmed Kamal of Ubuntu Community Team at Canonical as posted a call for help for anyone who want to Help Shape Ubuntu.Maps.Com.

"I am excited for this, the third Community Leadership Summit - the last two events have been a great success, and this year is sure to be the best event yet for bringing together community leaders to share best practice in a truly independent environment" - Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager and Founder of the Community Leadership Summit

Announced on the Ubuntu devel mailing list by Kate Stewart, Ubuntu Release Manager at Canonical, Ubuntu 8.04, Hardy Heron, LTS (Desktop) release will reach its end-of-life support on May 12, 2011.

LinuxFest Northwest, scheduled to take place in Bellingham, Washington on April 31 and May 1, 2011 as announces its finalized schedule of events.

When I got up this morning, the news was all over Facebook and the free software news sites: Groklaw, the site that was influential in the SCO legal cases, will stop publication on May 16. It's news that I hear with decidedly mixed feelings.