by Jono Bacon | Feb 28, 2012 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
[Nick has a call open](https://www.theorangenotebook.com/2012/02/opportunity-manual-application-testing.html) for manual tests that we can include with the Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 1 testing that will kick off on Thursday. We really want to throw open the doors to a wide...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 28, 2012 | Community, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
Recently I have been working on the [Ubuntu Accomplishments](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accomplishments) system and at the heart of the system is the ability to be able to detect if someone has successfully completed various tasks in the community. We can also provide...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 28, 2012 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
Ubuntu 12.04 is going to be an awesome release, but we are asking our community to [download the current daily development release](https://cdimages.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/), test it out, and file bugs to let us know where the defects are. This will then help...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 27, 2012 | Community, Desktop, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu
I just wanted to offer my thanks to the [LibreOffice](https://www.libreoffice.org) team for their continued efforts in slimming down, refining, and bringing new features to the office suite. People sometimes talk a bit of smack about LibreOffice, but the team has been...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 25, 2012 | Community, Programming
…I know…most metal blog post title ever, right? I wanted to ask for some guidance from some of you *Twisted* Python folks. I have written the backend process for [Ubuntu Accomplishments](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accomplishments) using Twisted, and...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 24, 2012 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
Just a quick reminder that in the next 30 mins I will be running a video Q+A session to explain how you can organize an [Ubuntu Global Jam](https://loco.ubuntu.com/events/globaljam/) event **next weekend**. My videocast will be at: * **11am Pacific / 2pm Europe / 7pm...
