by Jono Bacon | Mar 2, 2012 | Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
This weekend is the [Ubuntu Global Jam](https://loco.ubuntu.com/events/globaljam/) happening all over the world with **31** LoCo Teams participating across **22** countries. Be sure to [find an event near you](https://loco.ubuntu.com/events/globaljam/)! Much of the...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 29, 2012 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
At the heart of the [Ubuntu Accomplishments](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accomplishments) system is a way to discover how to participate in the community by seeing built in guidance and help for how to learn the skills you need and participate. Inside the app it looks...
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, 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 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...
