by Jono Bacon | Aug 16, 2011 | Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu
*Thanks to [Reid Beels](https://reidbeels.com/) for the photo*. A few weeks ago was the [Community Leadership Summit 2011](https://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/) in beautiful Portland, Oregon. For those who are unfamiliar with the event, I started the CLS three...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 15, 2011 | Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
The [Ubuntu Developer Summit](https://uds.ubuntu.com/) (UDS) is the most important event in the Ubuntu calendar. It is where we get together to discuss, design, and plan the next version of Ubuntu; in this case the very important Ubuntu 12.04 Long Term Support (LTS)...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 14, 2011 | Community, Planet GNOME, Ubuntu
I am an Evolution user. While people seem to rag on Evo, I quite like it. In Oneiric though there has been discussion about switching to Thunderbird. I have always been a firm believer in *eating your own dogfood* where possible, so I decided to start using...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 11, 2011 | Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu
I am looking to hire a new member for my team (the *Community Team*) here at [Canonical](https://www.canonical.com). I am looking for a bright, motivated, and experienced person **to build, maintain and develop a cohesive, productive and effective Ubuntu QA...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 8, 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 | Jul 7, 2011 | Community, LUGRadio, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu
A few weeks ago I was in the UK and got together with the [LugRadio](https://www.lugradio.org/) team (Stuart Langridge, Adam Sweet, Chris Procter, and Ade Bradshaw) for a bit of a reunion. Thanks to Tony Whitmore and Laura Cowen from the [Ubuntu UK...