by Jono Bacon | Nov 23, 2006 | Community, Ubuntu
*(sorry for the rapid stream of blog posts, normal service will resume soon)* Recently I have been working on a series of IRC events to help get new people into our community. As such, next week (Mon 27th Nov 2006 – Sat 2nd Dec 2006) the Ubuntu community holds...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 21, 2006 | Community, Ubuntu
The awesome [ubuntu-uk](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam) LoCo team are having a charity auction of an Ubuntu t-shirt signed by Mark Shuttleworth, Jon “maddog” Hall, myself and some other folks. I have also signed a copy of the [Official Ubuntu...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 20, 2006 | Desktop, Ubuntu
Well, my new book will be published any time now: This is my third book, but the first that I have written entirely myself. I am pretty pleased with it. A sample copy was here when I got back from San Francisco, and it looks schaweeeet. The book takes a different...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 20, 2006 | Community, Jokosher, Ubuntu
While at the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) the week before last, I took part in an interview with Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier about the UDS, community and Jokosher. He has written up a report, complete with video interviews with myself, Matt Zimmerman, Murray...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 18, 2006 | Community, Desktop, Speaking, Ubuntu
Astute readers may have observed that this has been a quiet week for my blog. Well, there are a few reasons for this: * Firstly, we have just performed a server move, and I wanted to keep the databases synced. We have moved from two separate VMs to a dedicated box....
by Jono Bacon | Nov 10, 2006 | Community, Desktop, Jokosher, Ubuntu
Well, the UDS finishes up tomorrow, and lots has been going on. Ready for some bullet points? READY? OK, you got it you filthy bullet point fiends: * The spec about unifying resources with Launchpad was very productive, and there was some discussion of it being rolled...