Jono Bacon's solution to long distance learning and user participation in Ubuntu Open conferences has finally arrived relatively bug-free in Karmic with less than three weeks to go before the inaugral March 1 Ubuntu Opportunitic Developer Week. Which all sounds a bit like an infection? Earlier releases of the programme had simply refused to run on my machine so I took the rash move of copypasting the error message directly onto Bacon's blog. Sorry mate. No time to file a bug report, but I expected a fever and this could just be the antidote. Bacon says: "While at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Dallas I mentioned in one of the roundtables about how wicked-cool it would be to have a desktop client for ... online tuition events that we run."
"One of the challenges we face every time we run these events is helping new community members figure out how IRC works. Ideally this should be as simple as running a program, selecting an event and connecting."
" On the flight home I hacked up a little quickly app to get started on this. It is called Lernid."
http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/11/25/introducing-lernid/
To install:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lernid-devs/lernid-releases
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lernid
There is also a ppa for daily releases
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/lernid-devs/lernid-daily/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/lernid-devs/lernid-daily/ubuntu karmic main
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