by Jono Bacon | Dec 9, 2012 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
For quite some time now we have had some information about how to join the Ubuntu community at [www.ubuntu.com/community](https://www.ubuntu.com/community). This documentation has traditionally been pretty limited, doesn’t really help get people started...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 7, 2012 | Community, Desktop, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
*This is a personal post and does not neccessarily represent the views of Canonical or the Ubuntu community*. Today Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU project and [Free Software Foundation](https://www.fsf.org) wrote a [critical...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 6, 2012 | Community, Planet Ubuntu
A few months ago the second edition of my book [The Art of Community](https://www.artofcommunityonline.org/) was released. You can [buy the book in print or for your e-reader/tablet, or you download the Creative Commons licensed...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 30, 2012 | Article, Canonical, Community, Desktop, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu
Last week [Benjamin Otte shared some thoughts about GNOME](https://blogs.gnome.org/otte/2012/07/27/staring-into-the-abyss/) that were pretty stark. It gathered some steam and hit Slashdot and this all happened the week [GUADEC](https://guadec.org/) was taking place in...
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 6, 2012 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
Applications, delivering awesome apps to our users, and making it easy for developers to create and deliver their apps, is going to be critical to success of Ubuntu. Fortunately there is a lot of work going on in this area, more of which I will elaborate on later this...
