Summary: It's Episode Twenty-nine of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With <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>, <a href="https://flexion.org/" title="Martin Wimpress' website">Martin Wimpress</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/popey" title="popey on Twitter">Alan Pope</a>! In this week's show: We look at what's been going on in the news: * <a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/dell-reporting-that-40-of-pc-sold-in-china-are-ubuntu-powered-491666.shtml">Dell’s head of China told The Wall Street Journal that NeoKylin Linux is shipped on 42 percent of the PCs it sells into China.</a> * <a href="https://letsencrypt.org/2015/09/14/our-first-cert.html">Let's Encrypt are working towards general availability over the next couple of months and passed a major milestone by issuing its first certificate.</a> * <a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/09/epa-opposes-rules-couldve-exposed-vws-cheating/">Volkswagen shares have plunged more than 18% after US regulators found that some of its cars could manipulate official emissions tests</a> * <a href="http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/214461-ibms-upcoming-blockchain-release-could-change-the-internet#.VfxVzo6fn9k.facebook">IBM are releasing open source blockchain thingummy</a> (and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/06/imogen-heap-saviour-of-music-industry?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Telegram">Imogen Heap's music idea #longread</a> * <a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/italy-s-ministry-of-defense-to-drop-microsoft-office-in-favor-of-libreoffice-491850.shtml">Italy's Ministry of Defense drop Microsoft Office in Favor of LibreOffice and adopt the Open Document Format (ODF).</a> * <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Debian-Stops-CDs">It was decided at this year's DebConf to stop producing new CD ISOs/images for future Debian updates onward.</a> We also take a look at what's been going on in the community: * <a href="http://www.whizzy.org/2015/09/big-bug-bonanza-16-04-lts/">Big Bug Bonanza Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - call for participation</a> * <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-community-team/2015-September/000814.html">Community Council call for nominations.</a> * <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-quality/2015-September/006134.html">Replacing the Startup Disk Creator - call for Python coders</a> * <a href="https://youtu.be/1q8~mphixHvk">Ubuntu Developers discuss the future of Snappy Personal, Unity 8, Mir, Convergence</a> * <a href="http://ubucon.de/2015/contest/submitted-entries">UbuContest - send us your opinions on the entries</a> There are even events: * <a href="http://london-2015.devrel.net/">DevRelCon</a> - London, UK - 30th September * <a href="http://oggcamp.org/">Oggcamp returns!</a> - Liverpool, UK - 31st October That's all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: show@ubuntupodcast.org 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> Find our <a href="http://www.facebook.com/UbuntuUKPodcast" title="Ubuntu Podcast on Facebook">Facebook Fan Page</a> Follow us on <a href="https://plus.google.com/107381207738558467919/posts" title="UUPC on Google+">Google+</a>
