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Atlanta Linux Fest 2009 will be held Saturday, September 19th, 2009, which is also Software Freedom Day. Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE will be presenting upcoming releases and interesting projects that have been going in their respective communities. Open Source projects like SugarCRM, Drupal, and Blender will be represented. Discussions about GPLv3 and women in OSS wil be held. And of course, much more!

This week we interview Leslie Hawthorn, Google’s Open Source program manager. Leslie discusses the history of Google Summer of Code, what participants get out of the program, and more importantly, whether or not she uses Ubuntu.

Ubuntu Podcast #22 covers the Florida Linux Show, Jaunty Alpha 6 released, Ubuntu Case badges, Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team and Ubuntu Classroom Team offering sessions on securing Ubuntu, John Dvorak plugs Ubuntu, and interview with David Thomas of the New Mexico LoCo, discussing New Mexico Linux Fest and Endorphin Power Company.

Ubuntu Podcast #21 covers the need for 9.04 countdown banners by end of March, LoCo Teams Meeting, new Xfce 4.6 in Xubuntu 9.04, Jaunty encrypted home directories, Phoronix test suite to be in 9.04 repositories, Ubuntu derivative Qimo 4 Kids, and X.org

Ubuntu Podcast Episode #20 covers the controversial notifications feature, Karmic Koala, New Mexico LoCo helps facility aimed at people with substance abuse problems, better integrated mail stack in Jaunty, lots of HP-related Ubuntu news, and much more.

Ubuntu Podcast Episode #18 covers the big Dell college student story, the famous laptop killing bug, and cultural differences between Debian and Ubuntu. We also interview Jorge Castro, who manages external developer relations for Canonical.

Ubuntu Podcast Episode #17 covers the Ubuntu article in the NY Times, 2008 "Best of" by Linux Format magazine, EXT4 in Ubuntu 9.04, new ARM notebooks, and much more.

Ubuntu Podcast Episode #16 has been released. The podcast covers an upcoming interview with Jorge Castro (External Project Developer Relations for Ubuntu), Global Bug Jam, new notifications feature in Ubuntu 9.04, Ubuntu local communities on television, and much more.