by Jono Bacon | Aug 9, 2009 | Community, Ubuntu
Recently I had an interesting decision to consider. In an email to the Community Council, Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of the Ubuntu project nominated me for a seat on the Community Council, one of our two top-level governance boards, the other being the Ubuntu...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 3, 2009 | Community, Desktop
A little while back I spent some time in beautiful Gran Canaria at the inaugural [Gran Canaria Desktop Summit](https://www.grancanariadesktopsummit.org/). This was the first event of its kind to bring together developers from the two major desktops, KDE and GNOME. As...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 1, 2009 | Article, Community
Today I have a little story followed by an idea that I want to share with you all. A few weeks back I stepped out to go and grab a coffee. I headed over to my local independent coffee shop where I get on well with the owners. Like many small businesses, they have been...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 30, 2009 | Article, Community
Today I just wanted to share a few thoughts on a much under-used and sometimes overlooked component in growing great communities: *validation*. Every community is an organically grouped bundle of people, many of which spend their free time choosing to be part of that...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 29, 2009 | Community, Ubuntu
Recently I have been talking to Prentice Hall, the rather spanky-awesome publishers of [The Official Ubuntu Book](https://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0137021208) by Mako, Matthew Helmke and Corey Burger, and the brand new [Official Ubuntu Server...
