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Sarah Dickinson

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Global Head of PR, IoT & Devices

Sarah manages IoT communications at Canonical. With a keen interest in technology, she has experience working in global B2B and B2C companies including Toshiba and Tektronix.

Sarah Dickinson
16 February 2018

Snapcraft through the eyes of its biggest community contributor

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If you’ve spent any time in the Snapcraft forum, it’s quite likely you’ve come across Dani Llewellyn – a keen community advocate or self-proclaimed Snapcrafter. Dani has always had a passion for computing and is completely self-taught. Outside of the community, Dani is a freelance WordPress developer. After getting into the open source wo ...

Sarah Dickinson
13 February 2018

Skype discuss easing Linux maintenance with snaps

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Skype is used by hundreds of millions of users globally to make free video and voice calls, send files, video and instant messages. It has been two years since Skype first launched to Linux users on the Electron framework. This brings us to the present day, where the team recently launched their first snap and ...

Sarah Dickinson
6 February 2018

Building Slack for the Linux community and adopting snaps

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Used by millions around the world, Slack is an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes to communicate effectively. Slack works seamlessly with other software tools within a single integrated environment, providing an accessible archive of an organisation’s communications, information and projects. Althou ...

Sarah Dickinson
31 January 2018

Plex joins Snapcraft Summit to advance snap learnings

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Plex is the leading streaming platform for personal media collections, also offering over-the-air Live TV and DVR capabilities, and curated news from over 200 global media partners. It’s the only solution that seamlessly combines your personal collection of TV shows, movies, music, photos, and videos alongside live and recorded TV. With a ...

Sarah Dickinson
19 December 2017

JetBrains adopts snaps to further simplify developers’ lives

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Used by companies as diverse as NASA, Pinterest, and CitiBank, JetBrains takes the repetition out of a developer’s life through their range of developer tools which automate routine checks and corrections. JetBrains offers 21 different tools for developers and in the last couple of months have created snaps for around half of their portfo ...

Sarah Dickinson
11 December 2017

Rocket.chat achieves simplicity through snaps

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Switching to snaps, Rocket.Chat has been able to get its product into the hands of users with as few steps as possible, switching a multi-stage set-up process for a single command and instant installation. ...

Sarah Dickinson
5 December 2017

Snaps & automatic updates prove popular with email client, Mailspring

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In the latest interview with a snap developer, we spoke to Ben Gotow who is the lead maintainer of Mailspring, a free, modern email client for Linux, Windows, and macOS. Originally started and open-sourced by Nylas in California, Ben took on the project earlier this year after Nylas changed course and stopped development. Mailspring has ...

Sarah Dickinson
30 November 2017

Ubuntu Core manages 25m data points a minute

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IMS Evolve’s systems monitor 25 million data points every minute of every day and manage almost 98,000 sites across 12 countries. Learn how they adopted Ubuntu Core on Dell Edge Gateways to run the cold-chain solutions of some of the most recognisable food retailers. ...

Sarah Dickinson
20 November 2017

Building a future-proofed IoT consumer device with brand stores

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When building or deploying any IoT device either in remote locations or consumer’s homes, it is now essential for manufacturers to consider and review how their devices can be future-proofed once it leaves their warehouses – such as update mechanisms and deploying security patches quickly. This is particularly so in the consumer market wh ...

Sarah Dickinson
15 November 2017

Orchestrating architectural installations and live shows with snaps

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Dutch manufacturer Visual Productions BV, provides multi-platform software and solid-state hardware lighting control technology for namely the architectural, retail, venue and entertainment lighting industries. Originating from an engineering background, Visual Productions combines creative thinking with the talent of listening to market ...

Sarah Dickinson
8 November 2017

Discovering snaps with .NET and Microsoft

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.NET Core, run by the .NET Foundation and Microsoft,  is a free, cross-platform platform that supports building and running the next generation of web services, microservices and apps. By its very nature, it is an open source platform which supports cross-platform development. Lee Coward and Rakesh Singh at Microsoft are working on the pr ...

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