Russia has planted a flag on the ocean floor at the North Pole, Canada is talking tough and Washington wants to be a player. Who will win the race for the Arctic?

Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter and Adam Sweet return for season five of LugRadio! Our official welcome to Chris as a full-fledged member of the team. We’re back, and it’s gonna rock hard. Welcome to Season 5!

• Why is server stuff so hard? The sysadmin half of the team (Adam and Chris) respond to accusations from the desktop half of the team (Jono and Aq) (2.43)
• Miguel de Icaza, leader of the Mono project, comes on the show to speak about Moonlight, the Mono team’s implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight rich internet application system, and to give his side of the controversy surrounding the project (13.55)
• The Mystery Hunt: where is…XUL? (30.35)
• Adam reviews two Linux-based embedded devices, the Neuros OSD TV movie streamer and the GP2X handheld games console (39.40)
• Your letters, including geography abuse, stereo abuse, name abuse, and the Ontario Linux fest. Send us your emails to show@lugradio.org or through lugradio.org/contact (53.20)
• LugRadio Live USA is really happening! American listeners, come join us for a weekend of fun and frolics on March 22nd and 23rd in San Francisco (63.08)

Oh, and, for those of you reading this in an RSS reader, take a glance at the new design for http://www.lugradio.org/. Our thanks go out to Michael Evans for the design, and the LugRadio ninjas team for applying the new design to various other places in the LR web empire. There’ll be more photos and so on going up shortly; let us know what you think and if you want to see anything else on the site!

Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter and Adam Sweet speak about many things. Over the summer, LugRadio were asked to be media partners for two conferences, GUADEC (the Gnome User and Developer European Conference) and PyCon UK, the first UK-specific Python conference. Here’s a conference special from both those events!

PyCon UK

• Thoughts on PyCon (1.43)
• Stackless Python: Christian Tismer tells us all about what Stackless is and demonstrates his own hardcore coding abilities (5.46)
• Django: Simon Willison talks about the leading Python web framework, what’s going on with it, and how Adrian Holovaty is a coke fiend (12.49)
• Zeth Green from the PyCon organising committee speaks about what it was like to run the conference (23.40)
• Wrap up and what we thought (30.02)

Guadec 2007

• A summary of Guadec, joined by special guest and Perl hacker Barbie (38.58)
• Quim Gil from Nokia speaks about what he’s doing in the ice-cold nation of Finland and how this Guadec compares to the one he organised in 2006 (63.09)
• Lennart Poettering (Avahi and PulseAudio hacker) on what he’s up to and what he thinks of the conference (71.09)
• PiTiVi: Edward Hervey goes from zero to hero by making sweeping changes to make the PiTiVi video editor much better in the space of 24 hours (75.08)
• Rob McQueen from Collabora on what his company are up to in the Gnome world (79.53)

Thanks for listening to this 2007 conference special, and thanks to the Guadec and PyCon organsers for inviting us to be media partners. If you’d like the LugRadio team to cover your conference, contact us at the show address!

LugRadio, season 5, will begin on September 24th, 2007. Prepare yourselves.