by Jono Bacon | May 31, 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 going to re-print some portions of my book, [The Art of Community](https://www.artofcommunityonline.org) on my blog. I would feel guilty about...
by Jono Bacon | May 28, 2011 | Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu
One of the things I love about my job is that much of it is working with different elements of the human condition. This includes growing excitement, defining and setting expectations, dealing with disappointment and conflict, coordinating different ethical lines,...
by Jono Bacon | May 26, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
As part of this cycle I have been talking with some people in the awesome Ubuntu LoCo Teams community to identify next steps in how we can optimize the community to go out and get *200 million* users. Today I feel we have a fantastic LoCo Team community; lots of teams...
by Jono Bacon | May 23, 2011 | Canonical, Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
In the interests of transparency, at the beginning of each cycle I tend to summarize my team at Canonical’s plans for the forthcoming six month period of work. This is the result of an extensive process of assessing requirements, gathering needs, discussing...
by Jono Bacon | May 20, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
I have long been a firm believer that the [Ubuntu LoCo Community](https://loco.ubuntu.com/) is one of the strongest elements of Ubuntu. The LoCo community are our eyes, ears, mouths, and hearts in taking Ubuntu to the masses. If we are going to reach out to 200million...
by Jono Bacon | May 19, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
*Wow*. Yesterday I [posted some ideas](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/2011/05/18/creating-an-ubuntu-power-user-community/) about building sub-team in the Ubuntu community optimized for power users and the needs of folks who love to tweak, tune, customize, hot-rod...
