by Jono Bacon | Jun 16, 2011 | Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu
*With many of you folks who read my blog having an active interest in participating or growing a community of some sort, I am re-printing some portions of my book, [The Art of Community](https://www.artofcommunityonline.org) on my blog. I would feel guilty about doing...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 15, 2011 | Humor, Music, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu
Many moons ago, when computers were made out of oak and beige slacks, I recorded a heavy metal version of the [Free Software Song](https://www.gnu.org/music/free-software-song.html) that Richard Stallman cobbled together. When I recorded this song I didnt really have...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 14, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
*This post has nothing to do with Canonical, just one of my own hair-brained ideas*. I was traveling into San Francisco the other day, and I had an idea I wanted to share. This is very much just an idea, and given I don’t have the time to work on it, I just...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 13, 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 | Jun 8, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu
Just a quick note that I will be delivering my *Burnout: Detecting it, avoiding it, preventing it* session online tomorrow, **Thu 9th June 2011** at **11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern / 6pm UTC / 7pm / 8pm Europe**. In the session I will discuss about the different stages...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 7, 2011 | Community, Desktop, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
On Thursday 28th April 2011 we released [Ubuntu 11.04](https://www.ubuntu.com/), the *Natty Narwhal*. It was a big release for us. It was the first desktop release that shipped [Unity](https://unity.ubuntu.com/); our new desktop interface designed to bridge the chasm...
