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Ubuntu Podcast

Ubuntu Podcast is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Ubuntu Podcast rather than just read about it. In short: Ubuntu Podcast was an Ubuntu Linux news and technology podcast formed by the Ubuntu UK Local Community Team. The show was based in England, UK, has a Telegram community group and multiple social network accounts dedicated to fostering inter-communication among fans.

Key takeaways

Ubuntu Podcast belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Ubuntu Podcast to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Ubuntu Podcast from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Ubuntu Podcast was an Ubuntu Linux news and technology podcast formed by the Ubuntu UK Local Community Team. The show was based in England, UK, has a Telegram community group and multiple social network accounts dedicated to fostering inter-communication among fans.

Presenters While the show had various presenters over the years, the line-up for the final 5 seasons was Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress. Past presenters include Laura Cowen, Tony Whitmore, Ciemon Dunville and Dave Walker. Guest presenters on the show include Andy Piper, Anton Piatek, Dan Kermac, Emma Marshall, Joe Ressington, Joey Sneddon, Jon Spriggs, Laura Czajkowski, Paul Tansom and Stuart Langridge.

Alan Pope Alan was formerly Community Manager, and then Developer Advocate at Canonical, before joining InfluxData as a Developer Advocate. Alan has been using Ubuntu since Warty Warthog. Formerly, Alan spent 13 years working as a system admin on German proprietary software while contributing to Ubuntu and Linux in his spare time. He first encountered Linux in the mid-1990s, and ran Red Hat then Debian on the desktop and server until Ubuntu Warty came out. Alan became an Ubuntu member in 2006 and has in the past been the contact person for the UK LoCo team, a member of the LoCo Council and a member of the EMEA Membership board and the Community Council. Alan was a presenter for every season of the show.

Mark Johnson Mark develops mainly on the Moodle Virtual Learning Environment. He has used Ubuntu since Warty Warthog. His interest is focused on gaming on Ubuntu.

Martin Wimpress Martin has been a Linux user since 1995 and first used the Warty Warthog release of Ubuntu. He became an Ubuntu member in 2016. In recent years Martin has worked with large scale Linux infrastructure and the transmission and analytics of Black box flight data. Martin was Director of Engineering for the Ubuntu Desktop team at Canonical and worked on desktop and devices before leaving the company in early 2021. In addition, he is one of lead developers of the MATE desktop environment and the Ubuntu MATE Linux distribution.

Format Episodes are packaged into seasons. Each season consists of about 40 episodes. An episode lasts for about 30 minutes, without any advertisements. The presenters usually speak in a family-friendly manner about their own work in the past week, discuss community news and upcoming events, talk about command-line tools and respond to listeners' feedback. The theme tune used for each episode is Crazy Words, Crazy Tune by the Savoy Havana band, recorded in 1927 and out of copyright.

History The first episode of the Ubuntu Podcast went live on March 11, 2008. Starting with season 8, the podcast rebranded from the Ubuntu UK Podcast to the Ubuntu Podcast. On September 9, 2021, the presenters announced that the show would be ending at the end of Season 14.

Production Ubuntu Podcast is recorded simultaneously by the presenters in their respective homes. The process involves recordings made by each presenter on their local machine in FLAC format using the software Audio Recorder. Recordings were usually made on Tuesday and published on Thursday. In latter years, two episodes were recorded back-to-back on the same evening, and released over the following two weeks, with post-production being performed by Joe Ressington, funded by a patreon campaign.

Audio formats The podcast was published in MP3 audio format on the Ubuntu Podcast, with options to stream content from Spotify or YouTube. The podcast was also formerly published in Ogg Vorbis format until the end of Series 10. Audio is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.

List of episodes Seasons 8-14 can be downloaded from the official Ubuntu Podcast page. The full set is available via YouTube and the Internet Archive

References

External links Official website Ubuntu Podcast's channel on YouTube Archive of all episodes

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Ubuntu Podcast

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Ubuntu Podcast claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Ubuntu Podcast before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Ubuntu Podcast ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Ubuntu Podcast

In research: Ubuntu Podcast appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Ubuntu Podcast in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Ubuntu Podcast is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2008 podcast debuts, British podcasts, Creative Commons-licensed podcasts, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Ubuntu Podcast outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Ubuntu Podcast in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Ubuntu Podcast means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Ubuntu Podcast out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Ubuntu Podcast in simple terms?

Why does Ubuntu Podcast matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Ubuntu Podcast?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Ubuntu Podcast.