This week we’re joined by a love bug and add more pixels to our computer. RedHat abandon btrfs, Marcus Hutchins is arrested, Google did evil and the podcast patent is over turned! We also have a large dose of Ubuntu community news and some events.

It’s Season Ten Episode Twenty-Three of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Dave Lee are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been upto recently:

* Dave Lee from The Bugcast joins us because Martin dared to take a holiday.

* Alan has been “adding pixels“

* We discuss the news:

* RedHat Abandons Btrfs

* Marcus Hutchins arrested in USA

* Google has fired James Damore, author of the internal memo entitled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber”

* Podcast patent declared invalid

* We discuss the community news:

* Ubuntu Fit and Finish Sprint

* A quick look at the decline of Ubuntu Membership – The blog post referenced has since been removed by the author

* Ubuntu Community Hub Proposal

* We mention some events:

* OggCamp: 19th-20th August – that’s next week!

* Sponsored By Entroware – who have donated another laptop for the raffle!, Canterbury Christ Church University, the Ubuntu Community, and openSuse

* Podcrawl Sheffield: 16th September – Sheffield, England.

* This weeks cover image is taken from Wikimedia.

Entroware Apollo laptop contest reminder

* We kicked off a contest in Episode 22 to win an Entroware Apollo laptop, the very one Alan reviewed last week.

* The contest is open until 3rd September 2017, so plenty of time to get your entries in!

* Listen to Episode 22 for all the details.

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 [email protected] or Tweet us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our Google+ page or comment...