by Jono Bacon | Jun 13, 2011 | Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu
Not long now until the [Community Leadership Summit 2011](https://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/); an annual event designed to bring together community leaders and managers to share best practice, ideas, and solutions. The event is entirely **free** and takes...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 8, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu
Just a quick note that I will be delivering my *Burnout: Detecting it, avoiding it, preventing it* session online tomorrow, **Thu 9th June 2011** at **11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern / 6pm UTC / 7pm / 8pm Europe**. In the session I will discuss about the different stages...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 7, 2011 | Community, Desktop, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
On Thursday 28th April 2011 we released [Ubuntu 11.04](https://www.ubuntu.com/), the *Natty Narwhal*. It was a big release for us. It was the first desktop release that shipped [Unity](https://unity.ubuntu.com/); our new desktop interface designed to bridge the chasm...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 6, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
One of the primary goals in the Ubuntu community is to encourage and inspire people to get involved in different parts of the project. Getting people involved typically requires a few key steps: * **Inspire** – Get someone interested in joining the community. *...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 5, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
Just a quickie. John. S. Gruber (I assume the S stands for *superstar*), has just kicked out a new [Lernid](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lernid) release, version `0.8.1`. John is powering his way through the bug list and getting Lernid ship-shape ready for the [six months...
