by Jono Bacon | Jul 6, 2012 | Community
Just a quick reminder that in just over a week we will be hosting the [Community Leadership Summit 2012](https://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/) in Portland, Oregon on from **Sat, July 14, 2012 – Sun, July 15, 2012**. The event happens the weekend before the...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 28, 2012 | Community, Ubuntu Accomplishments
With the [Ubuntu Accomplishments](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accomplishments) project continuing to grow with work now firmly going into the 0.3 release, fixing bugs, and working on a web gallery for trophies and opportunities, there is a lot of exciting work going on....
by Jono Bacon | Jun 26, 2012 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
Last week the [Ubuntu App Showdown Contest](https://developer.ubuntu.com/showdown/) kicked off; a competition in which you lovely people have three weeks to create an awesome app that wows the judges on *functionality, presentation/integration, innovation,...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 22, 2012 | Community
This is a long post, so to keep you reading and engaged, I am going to intersperse amusing kitten photos to keep this ball rolling. Hang in there, folks. 🙂 We have a slippery slope forming in some communities (fortunately, I am not referring to Ubuntu here)...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 21, 2012 | Community, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Accomplishments
[Last week](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/2012/06/13/ubuntu-accomplishments-0-2-released/) we released the **0.2** release of [Ubuntu Accomplishments](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accomplishments). As is typical with a new release, as soon as it comes out and you are...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 21, 2012 | Community, Ubuntu
Last night I created a tutorial video for how to get started creating your very first app for Ubuntu. In the tutorial I show you how to create a simple web browser by generating a new project, customizing the user interface, writing some code, and then generating a...