Richard Gaskin is the owner of Fourth World Systems, a software design and development consultancy in Los Angeles. Since founding the company in 1994, he's developed dozens of commercial and open source applications used by a wide range of organizations, including FedEx, AOL, the US Library of Congress, and thousands of hospitals and universities around the world.

Although he started his career with Mac OS, Richard has since delivered applications for Irix, every version of Windows, and has been developing for Linux for the last two years.

Richard has spoken at dozens of tech conferences, including SCaLE, LiveCode Developer Conference, and MacTech where he had the distinction of being the only presenter using Ubuntu.

Presentations

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Ubuntu Q&A and Closing Remarks

Bring all your pressing Ubuntu questions for a lively and friendly Q&A with long time Ubuntu Members and SCaLe community organizers, Nathan Haines and Richard Gaskin.

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Ubuntu Q&A

In this open Q&A session, attendees are invited to bring any questions they have about Ubuntu. Whether you're looking for a particular type of application, want to know how to find Ubuntu events in your area, tips on hardware compatibility, or anything else, Nathan and Richard are on hand to help.

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Ubuntu and You

You love Ubuntu. We love Ubuntu. What can we do so everyone can love Ubuntu? Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distro, but how many of your friends are using it? How many even know what it is? Maybe we can change that. This sessions invites attendees to participate in an open discussion of ways we can expand the Ubuntu desktop user base. Bring your ideas, success stories, and enthusiasm for Ubuntu, and we'll take notes in this open-ended two-hour conversation. If we discover great ideas that could use Canonical's help to make happen, after UbuCon we'll submit them for consideration.

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Ubuntu Q&A

In this open Q&A session, attendees are invited to bring any questions they have about Ubuntu. Whether you're looking for a particular type of application, want to know how to find Ubuntu events in your area, tips on hardware compatibility, or anything else, Nathan and Richard are on hand to help.

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Ubuntu Q&A

In this open Q&A session, attendees are invited to bring any questions they have about Ubuntu.  Whether you're looking for a particular type of application, want to know how to find Ubuntu events in your area, tips on hardware compatibility, or anything else, Nathan and Richard are on hand to help.

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Ubuntu Q&A Panel

In this open Q&A session, attendees are invited to bring any questions they have about Ubuntu.  Whether you're looking for a particular type of application, want to know how to find Ubuntu events in your area, tips on hardware compatibility, or anything else, Nathan, Michael, and Richard are on hand to help.

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Ubuntu Community Q&A

In this open Q&A session, attendees are invited to bring any questions they have about Ubuntu.  Whether you're looking for a particular type of application, want to know how to find Ubuntu events in your area, tips on hardware compatibility, or anything else, Nathan and Richard are on hand to help.

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Ubuntu, The Third Platform, and You

Kicking off this year's Ubucon, this talk will outline achievements in the Ubuntu world over the last year, and opportunities for the year ahead.

With the critical role applications play in adoption of Ubuntu, tools and resources for crafting custom software solutions will be the focus of this talk.

Whether a professional programmer or an end-user eager to learn, open source scripting languages like Python, LiveCode, Lua and more offer everyone a chance to make applications for themselvesm their friends, and the organizations they work with.

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