by Jono Bacon | Oct 15, 2006 | Advocacy, Community, Desktop, Ubuntu
On Friday while in Stuttgart I did an interview with nice chaps at the [StikkitTechnology Podcast](https://podcast.stikkittechnology.com/). In it we talk about Ubuntu, Canonical, my job, and thoughts on free software. So, you were given ears for a reason, fill...
by Jono Bacon | Oct 13, 2006 | Advocacy, Community, Desktop, Speaking, Ubuntu, Usability
Here I am at the [10th anniversary event for KDE](https://events.kde.org/10years/) and its really cool. Last night I had two, count them, two hours of sleep before my alarm went off at 3am. I get back into England at around 11pm. Its a long day, but its worth it. The...
by Jono Bacon | Oct 11, 2006 | Advocacy, Community, Desktop, Jokosher, LUGRadio, Speaking, Ubuntu
I will be at the Technische Akademie Esslingen in Ostfildern (near Stuttgart) all day on Friday for the [10th KDE anniversary event](https://events.kde.org/10years/). If there are any Kubuntu, Ubuntu, LUGRadio, Jokosher or other Open Source people who want to meet up,...
by Jono Bacon | Oct 10, 2006 | Advocacy, Community
As a child of the 80s and 90s, I often look back fondly at the computers back then. Commodore 64s, Spectrums, Amigas, Amstrads, Ataris, Acorns, and a raft of consoles all bring back memories of what many people refer to as the *golden age of computing*. When you look...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 21, 2006 | Advocacy, Community, Ubuntu
As I alluded to in my rather cheesily titled [previous post](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/?p=757), Ubuntu LoCo teams are important to me as a core way of building our incredible Ubuntu community up, and better hooking it together. Well, its been a few weeks...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 14, 2006 | Advocacy, Community, Jokosher, Ubuntu
Here in the UK, the [Ubuntu UK team](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam) have been forming nicely. A relatively new group, there is a huge amount of interest in the team to help push, promote and support Ubuntu where possible in the UK. The team live on [the ubuntu-uk...