LugRadio
Encyclopedia
LugRadio was a British
podcast
on the topic of Linux
and events in the free and open source software
communities, as well as coverage of technology, digital rights and politics.
The show was launched in 2004 as a result of discussions between several members of the Wolverhampton Linux User Group. After five seasons, on June 30, 2008, LugRadio announced they would be ending the show at their convention, LugRadio Live UK 2008.
The show was presented by Jono Bacon
, Stuart Langridge
, Chris Procter and Adam Sweet. Jono Bacon
and Stuart Langridge
are the only two presenters who have been with the show from the beginning, with Jono Bacon
being the only presenter to appear on every show. Previous regular presenters were Matthew Revell (Seasons 1 - 4), Adrian Bradshaw (Seasons 2 - 4) and Stephen Parkes (Season 1, and first few shows of Season 2). The show has also featured a number of guest presenters.
Guests have included Ximian co-founder Nat Friedman
, Google Open Source program manager Chris DiBona
, Sun Head of Open Source Strategy Simon Phipps
and Eric Raymond among others.
and Matthew Revell in 2003. The pair met at Wolverhampton Linux User Group and it was agreed that Stuart Langridge
and Stephen Parkes would complete the line-up. The first show, called The Phantom Message, was released on 26 February 2004.
Most releases of the show were licensed under the Creative Commons
Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivatives license, but shows released after December 2007 are under the Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. An effort was made to relicense earlier content under the same license where possible.
magazine, Linux User and Developer
magazine and Linux Magazine
as well as online coverage by sites such as Slashdot
.
LugRadio has been included on the cover CD of Linux User and Developer
magazine.
In 2006, LugRadio won the award for Best Marketing Campaign at the UK Linux and Open Source Awards in London and won the award for Best Linux Podcast in the Christmas 2007 edition of Linux Format
magazine.
LugRadio Live is an annual event organised by the LugRadio team and held in Wolverhampton
. It is a Linux, Free Software and Open Source event intended to be fun, without the corporate agenda held by other commercial events. It was first held in 2005 with 250 attendees, 14 speakers — including Mark Shuttleworth
, who arrived by helicopter — and 18 exhibitors including Ubuntu
, Debian
, KDE
and O'Reilly
.
In 2006 LugRadio Live saw around 400 attendees, over 30 speakers including Michael Meeks
and 27 exhibitors including Ubuntu
, OpenSolaris
, KDE
, MythTV
, Debian
, Fedora
and GNOME
.
LugRadio Live 2007 took place on 7–8 July 2007 at the Light House Media Centre
, Wolverhampton attracting hundreds of attendees from around the world. Speakers included Chris DiBona
(Google
), Gervase Markham
(Mozilla
) and a representative from the Department for Communities and Local Government.
LugRadio Live USA 2008 took place on 12–13 April 2008 at The Metreon
in San Francisco
. The wide selection of speakers included many celebrities including Miguel de Icaza
, Robert Love
., Ian Murdock
, and Jeremy Allison
. The show attracted about five hundred Linux enthusiasts from many countries around the world with several travelling from as far as Europe and Australia.
LugRadio Live UK 2008 took place on the weekend of 19 July 2008 in Wolverhampton
at the Light House Media Centre
.
LugRadio Live 2009 took place on 24 October 2009 in Wolverhampton
at the Newhampton Arts Centre.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
podcast
Podcast
A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...
on the topic of Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
and events in the free and open source software
Free and open source software
Free and open-source software or free/libre/open-source software is software that is liberally licensed to grant users the right to use, study, change, and improve its design through the availability of its source code...
communities, as well as coverage of technology, digital rights and politics.
The show was launched in 2004 as a result of discussions between several members of the Wolverhampton Linux User Group. After five seasons, on June 30, 2008, LugRadio announced they would be ending the show at their convention, LugRadio Live UK 2008.
The show was presented by Jono Bacon
Jono Bacon
Jono Bacon is a community manager, writer, musician and software developer, originally from the United Kingdom, but now based in California...
, Stuart Langridge
Stuart Langridge
Stuart Langridge is the author of two books for technical publisher SitePoint, DHTML Utopia, and Run Your Own Web Server Using Linux & Apache as well as writing the Stylish Scripting weblog during 2005...
, Chris Procter and Adam Sweet. Jono Bacon
Jono Bacon
Jono Bacon is a community manager, writer, musician and software developer, originally from the United Kingdom, but now based in California...
and Stuart Langridge
Stuart Langridge
Stuart Langridge is the author of two books for technical publisher SitePoint, DHTML Utopia, and Run Your Own Web Server Using Linux & Apache as well as writing the Stylish Scripting weblog during 2005...
are the only two presenters who have been with the show from the beginning, with Jono Bacon
Jono Bacon
Jono Bacon is a community manager, writer, musician and software developer, originally from the United Kingdom, but now based in California...
being the only presenter to appear on every show. Previous regular presenters were Matthew Revell (Seasons 1 - 4), Adrian Bradshaw (Seasons 2 - 4) and Stephen Parkes (Season 1, and first few shows of Season 2). The show has also featured a number of guest presenters.
Guests have included Ximian co-founder Nat Friedman
Nat Friedman
Nathaniel Dourif Friedman , known as Nat, is a programmer who co-founded Ximian along with Miguel de Icaza in 1999, a company that was later bought by Novell in 2003....
, Google Open Source program manager Chris DiBona
Chris DiBona
Chris DiBona is the open source and public sector engineering manager at Google. His team oversees license compliance and supports the open source developer community through programs such as the Google Summer of Code and through the release of open source software projects and patches on Google...
, Sun Head of Open Source Strategy Simon Phipps
Simon Phipps (programmer)
Simon Phipps is a computer scientist and web and open source advocate.Phipps was instrumental in IBM's involvement in the Java programming language, founding IBM's Java Technology Center. He left IBM for Sun Microsystems in 2000, taking leadership of Sun's open source programme from Danese Cooper...
and Eric Raymond among others.
History
LugRadio was conceived by Jono BaconJono Bacon
Jono Bacon is a community manager, writer, musician and software developer, originally from the United Kingdom, but now based in California...
and Matthew Revell in 2003. The pair met at Wolverhampton Linux User Group and it was agreed that Stuart Langridge
Stuart Langridge
Stuart Langridge is the author of two books for technical publisher SitePoint, DHTML Utopia, and Run Your Own Web Server Using Linux & Apache as well as writing the Stylish Scripting weblog during 2005...
and Stephen Parkes would complete the line-up. The first show, called The Phantom Message, was released on 26 February 2004.
Most releases of the show were licensed under the Creative Commons
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons...
Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivatives license, but shows released after December 2007 are under the Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. An effort was made to relicense earlier content under the same license where possible.
Media coverage and awards
LugRadio has previously received coverage in Linux FormatLinux Format
Linux Format was the UK's first Linux-specific magazine, and is currently the best-selling Linux title in the UK. It is also exported to many countries worldwide. It is published by Future Publishing...
magazine, Linux User and Developer
Linux User and Developer
Linux User and Developer is a monthly magazine about Linux.Linux User and Developer is a UK magazine written specifically for Linux professionals and IT decision makers. It is available in newsagents, via subscription, or for download as a PDF for a fee from the magazine's web page.- External links...
magazine and Linux Magazine
Linux Magazine
Linux Magazine is a European professional journal. It addresses itself to readers who work professionally with operating systems based around the Linux kernel. Linux Magazine is published by Linux New Media AG and was born after the great success of Linux-Magazin...
as well as online coverage by sites such as Slashdot
Slashdot
Slashdot is a technology-related news website owned by Geeknet, Inc. The site, which bills itself as "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters", features user-submitted and ‑evaluated current affairs news stories about science- and technology-related topics. Each story has a comments section...
.
LugRadio has been included on the cover CD of Linux User and Developer
Linux User and Developer
Linux User and Developer is a monthly magazine about Linux.Linux User and Developer is a UK magazine written specifically for Linux professionals and IT decision makers. It is available in newsagents, via subscription, or for download as a PDF for a fee from the magazine's web page.- External links...
magazine.
In 2006, LugRadio won the award for Best Marketing Campaign at the UK Linux and Open Source Awards in London and won the award for Best Linux Podcast in the Christmas 2007 edition of Linux Format
Linux Format
Linux Format was the UK's first Linux-specific magazine, and is currently the best-selling Linux title in the UK. It is also exported to many countries worldwide. It is published by Future Publishing...
magazine.
LugRadio Live
Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. For Eurostat purposes Walsall and Wolverhampton is a NUTS 3 region and is one of five boroughs or unitary districts that comprise the "West Midlands" NUTS 2 region...
. It is a Linux, Free Software and Open Source event intended to be fun, without the corporate agenda held by other commercial events. It was first held in 2005 with 250 attendees, 14 speakers — including Mark Shuttleworth
Mark Shuttleworth
Mark Richard Shuttleworth is a South African entrepreneur who was the second self-funded space tourist. Shuttleworth founded Canonical Ltd. and as of 2010, provides leadership for the Ubuntu operating system...
, who arrived by helicopter — and 18 exhibitors including Ubuntu
Ubuntu (operating system)
Ubuntu is a computer operating system based on the Debian Linux distribution and distributed as free and open source software. It is named after the Southern African philosophy of Ubuntu...
, Debian
Debian
Debian is a computer operating system composed of software packages released as free and open source software primarily under the GNU General Public License along with other free software licenses. Debian GNU/Linux, which includes the GNU OS tools and Linux kernel, is a popular and influential...
, KDE
KDE
KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems...
and O'Reilly
O'Reilly Media
O'Reilly Media is an American media company established by Tim O'Reilly that publishes books and Web sites and produces conferences on computer technology topics...
.
In 2006 LugRadio Live saw around 400 attendees, over 30 speakers including Michael Meeks
Michael Meeks
Michael Meeks may refer to:*Michael Meeks , Canadian former basketball player*Michael Meeks , British software developer...
and 27 exhibitors including Ubuntu
Ubuntu (operating system)
Ubuntu is a computer operating system based on the Debian Linux distribution and distributed as free and open source software. It is named after the Southern African philosophy of Ubuntu...
, OpenSolaris
OpenSolaris
OpenSolaris was an open source computer operating system based on Solaris created by Sun Microsystems. It was also the name of the project initiated by Sun to build a developer and user community around the software...
, KDE
KDE
KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems...
, MythTV
MythTV
MythTV is a free and open source home entertainment application with a simplified "10-foot user interface" design for the living-room TV, and turns a computer with the necessary hardware into a network streaming digital video recorder, a digital multimedia home entertainment system, or home theater...
, Debian
Debian
Debian is a computer operating system composed of software packages released as free and open source software primarily under the GNU General Public License along with other free software licenses. Debian GNU/Linux, which includes the GNU OS tools and Linux kernel, is a popular and influential...
, Fedora
Fedora Project
The Fedora Project is an endeavor sponsored by Red Hat to co-ordinate the development of the Fedora operating system. Founded on September 2003 as a result of a merger between the Red Hat Linux and old Fedora Linux projects...
and GNOME
GNOME
GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system. It is composed entirely of free and open source software...
.
LugRadio Live 2007 took place on 7–8 July 2007 at the Light House Media Centre
Light House Media Centre
Light House Media Centre, often simply referred to as Light House, is a cinema, gallery and media hub for Wolverhampton and the surrounding area. Light House is located within the historic former Chubb Locks Factory in the city centre...
, Wolverhampton attracting hundreds of attendees from around the world. Speakers included Chris DiBona
Chris DiBona
Chris DiBona is the open source and public sector engineering manager at Google. His team oversees license compliance and supports the open source developer community through programs such as the Google Summer of Code and through the release of open source software projects and patches on Google...
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
), Gervase Markham
Gervase Markham (programmer)
Gervase Markham is a British programmer for the Mozilla Foundation, and a lead developer of Bugzilla. He started contributing to the Mozilla project in 1999, and became the youngest paid employee of Mozilla.org at age 23 after he graduated from Oxford University.Markham is named after his paternal...
(Mozilla
Mozilla
Mozilla is a term used in a number of ways in relation to the Mozilla.org project and the Mozilla Foundation, their defunct commercial predecessor Netscape Communications Corporation, and their related application software....
) and a representative from the Department for Communities and Local Government.
LugRadio Live USA 2008 took place on 12–13 April 2008 at The Metreon
Metreon
The Metreon is a shopping center located in downtown San Francisco at the corner of 4th Street and Mission Street. It is a four-story 350,000 square foot building built over the corner of the underground Moscone Center convention center...
in San Francisco
San Francisco, California
San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...
. The wide selection of speakers included many celebrities including Miguel de Icaza
Miguel de Icaza
Miguel de Icaza is a Mexican free software programmer, best known for starting the GNOME and Mono projects.-Early years:Miguel de Icaza was born in Mexico City and studied at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México but never received a degree. He came from a family of scientists in which his...
, Robert Love
Robert Love
Robert M. Love is an American author, speaker, Google engineer, and open source software developer.Love is best known for his contributions to the Linux kernel, with notable work including the preemptive kernel, process scheduler, kernel event layer, virtual memory subsystem, and inotify...
., Ian Murdock
Ian Murdock
Ian Murdock is the founder of the Debian distribution and Progeny Linux Systems, a commercial Linux company.- Life and career :Murdock was born in Konstanz, Germany....
, and Jeremy Allison
Jeremy Allison
Jeremy Allison is a computer programmer known for his contributions to the free software community, notably to Samba, a re-implementation of SMB/CIFS networking protocol, released under the GNU General Public License....
. The show attracted about five hundred Linux enthusiasts from many countries around the world with several travelling from as far as Europe and Australia.
LugRadio Live UK 2008 took place on the weekend of 19 July 2008 in Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. For Eurostat purposes Walsall and Wolverhampton is a NUTS 3 region and is one of five boroughs or unitary districts that comprise the "West Midlands" NUTS 2 region...
at the Light House Media Centre
Light House Media Centre
Light House Media Centre, often simply referred to as Light House, is a cinema, gallery and media hub for Wolverhampton and the surrounding area. Light House is located within the historic former Chubb Locks Factory in the city centre...
.
LugRadio Live 2009 took place on 24 October 2009 in Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. For Eurostat purposes Walsall and Wolverhampton is a NUTS 3 region and is one of five boroughs or unitary districts that comprise the "West Midlands" NUTS 2 region...
at the Newhampton Arts Centre.
External links
- LugRadio home page
- [irc://irc.freenode.net/lugradio #lugradio] on freenode