LugRadio

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LugRadio is a UK-based internet radio programme aimed at fans of Linux and open source and free software (FOSS). It is made by four Linux users: Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Ade Bradshaw and Matthew Revell. It takes a more relaxed and humorous attitude than other shows, containing strong language at times.

A new episode is published on Monday on a fortnightly schedule, and is available in Ogg Vorbis and MP3 formats.

The show gets between 6,000 and 15,000 downloads per episode^{[citation needed]}, depending on who the main interview guest is. A community of voluntary mirrors, combined with the sponsored primary download archive, take the majority of the transfer strain and is one of the many examples of community involvement that have strengthened the show. The episodes are also available via bittorrent.

1 Community
2 LugRadio Live
- 2.1 2005
- 2.2 2006
3 Trivia
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Community

LugRadio has fostered a very strong and loyal community thanks to listener interaction encouraged by the presenters, and the adoption of IRC and web forums amongst the earliest listeners to discuss topics arising from each show's content and to suggest new topics for future shows. Other services and projects include a community wiki, IRC quotes database and blog planet.

In August 2006, after discussion at LugRadio Live 2006, the show spawned a community-created podcast — hashlugradio — whose name derives from the LugRadio IRC channel #lugradio. The topics on the podcast are primarily led from LugRadio itself, where discussions are carried on when the LugRadio presenters may not have had time to talk further on a particular subject.

[edit] LugRadio Live

The four main presenters during "LugRadio Live and Unleashed".

LugRadio Live is a conference and social gathering, centering around LugRadio and the FOSS developments, which offers a chance for UK developers to see each other in person and discuss developments in the FOSS world.

[edit] 2005

The first LugRadio Live was held in Wolverhampton on 25th June 2005, featuring:

Ubuntu's founder Mark Shuttleworth
Linspire President and CEO Kevin Carmony
Freelance tech journalist Bill Thompson

[edit] 2006

LugRadio Live 2006 was held on 22 July and 23 July 2006 at the Wolverhampton University Student Union. Speakers included:

Bruno Bord of the LugRadio community
Ted Haeger of Novell/SUSE
Mark Hearn of Codeweavers and Autopackage.
Michael Meeks of Novell and OpenOffice.Org.
Danny O'Brien, technology journalist.
Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer at Sun Microsystems.
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu.
Simon Willison, from Yahoo!, on the Django project.

[edit] Trivia

The now somewhat infamous phrase, "Ubuntu, they drink it in the Congo," a parody on the British tropical fruit drink Um Bongo, originated from LugRadio. This led to the creation of an Ubuntu jingle ^[1] which was later played on the show ^[2]. As a result, the phrase has become quite popular especially as an esoteric joke when talking in reference to Ubuntu Linux.