Ubuntu's head designer, Ivanka Majic, is leaving for an extended motorcycle trip through America, and whether she will return to Canonical remains unclear.

The Budapest Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS-O) kicked off on Monday, May 9, at the Corinthia Hotel. "Accessibility is one of our core values as a project," Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth said in his keynote address, as he acknowledged the Unity documentation team contributions to the 11.04 release. After briefly looking back at the "Natty Narwhal" Ubuntu release, Shuttleworth set his sights on the upcoming release, saying, "Our goal, our mission is 200-million Ubuntu users in four years."

Celebrity players from the world of Linux at the CeBIT Open Source Forum presented Linux New Media Awards 2011 in seven categories. The Debian project took two prizes.

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Now in its ninth year, the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) continues to gain ground as its popularity grows throughout the open source community.

The Jeopardy game is over, and Watson, the supercomputer built and pro­grammed by IBM, won hands down. But, maddog tackles an item in the “Open Source Operating Systems” category.