Summary: It's Episode Forty-one of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! <a href="https://twitter.com/popey" title="popey on Twitter">Alan Pope</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/marxjohnson" title="Mark on Twitter">Mark Johnson</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/lauracowen" title="Laura on Twitter">Laura Cowen</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/m_wimpress" title="Martin on Twitter">Martin Wimpress</a> and are connected and speaking to your brain. In this week's show... We look at what's been going on in the news: * <a href="https://letsencrypt.org/2015/12/03/entering-public-beta.html">Let’s Encrypt has entered public beta...</a> (And if you're interested, there's <a href="https://certificatemonitor.org/">an open source tool to monitor the expiration of certificates</a>.) * <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/08/mozilla-will-stop-developing-and-selling-firefox-os-smartphones/">Mozilla will stop developing and selling Firefox OS smartphones...</a> * <a href="http://blog.jospoortvliet.com/2015/12/western-digital-labs-and-owncloud.html">ownCloud have established a community project with Western Digital to bring self hosted cloud Storage to home users...</a> * <a href="https://tlhp.cf/man-of-the-year-2015/">The Linux HomeFront project have a Linux and Open Source 'Man of The Year 2015' poll...</a> * <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/campaign-against-mass-surveillance-in-the-uk#/">Jim Killock, Executive Director of the Open Rights Group, has launched an Indiegogo crowd funding campaign against mass surveillance in the UK...</a> * <a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/mozilla-firefox-43-0-is-now-available-for-download-for-linux-mac-and-windows-497609.shtml">Mozilla Firefox 43.0 brings the long-anticipated integration of GTK+ 3...</a> We also take a look at what's been going on in the Ubuntu community: * <a href="http://www.whizzy.org/2015/12/online-searches-in-the-dash-to-be-off-by-default/">Ubuntu Online Search in Unity Dash switched off by default in 16.04...</a> * <a href="http://linux.softpedia.com/blog/libreoffice-document-viewer-2-0-app-officially-released-for-ubuntu-phones-497146.shtml">Ubuntu Touch LibreOffice DocViewer has been finally released on Ubuntu Store...</a> * <a href="http://wayneward.co.uk/ubuntu-touch/ubuntu-touch-and-pebble-watch-upebble/">Pebble watch support for Ubuntu Touch is coming...</a> * <a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/ubuntu-touch-to-get-fm-support-for-aquaris-e4-5-and-e5-hd-first-497568.shtml">Ubuntu Touch to Get FM Support for Aquaris E4.5 and E5 HD...</a> There are even events: * <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/10th-egham-raspberry-jam-gamification-tickets-19450730659">10th Egham Raspberry Jam - Gamification</a> - Sunday 17 January 2016, 14:00 to 17:00 (GMT) - Gartner, Surrey * <a href="https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/14x">SCaLE 14x</a> - January 21-24, 2016 - Pasadena Convention Center, California (including <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Ubuntu-California/events/227070159/">UbuCon Summit</a> - 21st to 22nd) * <a href="https://fosdem.org/2016/">FOSDEM 2016</a> - 30 Jan 2016 to 31 Jan 2016 - Brussels, Belgium * <a href="https://linux.conf.au/">LinuxConf AU 2016</a> - Geelong, Victoria, Australia in 2016, between 1st-5th February 2016 at Deakin University’s Waterfront Campus. * <a href="http://devconf.cz/">DevConf.cz 2016</a> - February 5th - 7th 2016 - Brno, Czech Republic That's all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: * <a href="mailto:show@ubuntupodcast.org">show@ubuntupodcast.org</a> * Join us on IRC in <a href="http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntu-podcast" title="#ubuntu-podcast on IRC">#ubuntu-podcast</a> on <a href="http://freenode.net/" title="Freenode network">Freenode</a> * Follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/ubuntupodcast" title="Ubuntu Podcast on Twitter">Twitter</a> * Follow us on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/UbuntuUKPodcast" title="Ubuntu Podcast on Facebook">Facebook</a>
