It’s Episode Twenty-three of Season Nine of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

We’re here again!

In this week’s show:

* We discuss the news:

* Former OwnCloud Inc. employee Carla Schroder has published the other side of the OwnCloud/Nextcloud fork story

* €1.2 million funding for Open Source projects in Germany

* UK tops the UN’s e-government survey but the service is having political problems

* Google has added YouTube to their HTTPS Transparency report

* Researchers at Princeton have shown that Web APIs allowing sites to access your battery status provide a new vector for uniquely identifying a device and you can see a demo here

* We discuss the community news:

* A consolidated YAML network configuration across Ubuntu announced

* Distrowatch comprehensively reviews the Meizu Pro 5 Ubuntu Edition

* Distro contributors and developers have written up their experiences of attending the recent Snappy Sprint in Heidelberg

* Fedora contributor – Neal Gompa

* KDE Developer – Harald Sitter

* Debian Maintainer – Luke Faraone

* Another week, another Skype update for Linux

* Ubuntu Touch OTA-12 includes Biometric Authentication for Meizu PRO 5

* We mention some events:

* FOSS Talk Live – 6 August – London, UK

* Wuthering Bytes 2016 – 2-11 September – Hebden Bridge, W. Yorks, UK

* Barcamp Manchester – 24-25 September – CityLabs, Manchester, UK

* We discuss doing a bit of parkrun tourism and working to the sound of a dehumidifier.

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This weeks cover image is taken from Wikimedia.

That’s all for this week! If there’s a topic you’d like us to discuss, or you have any feedback on previous shows, please send your comments and suggestions to