by Jono Bacon | Jun 20, 2011 | Canonical, Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
For those of you who missed the news, *Ensemble* is the white-hot new cloud deployment technology from the Ubuntu project. To see it is action, [check out this screencast](https://cloud.ubuntu.com/2011/06/zero-to-ensemble-in-5-mins/) from Ahmed. While *Ensemble* is...
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 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...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 6, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
One of the primary goals in the Ubuntu community is to encourage and inspire people to get involved in different parts of the project. Getting people involved typically requires a few key steps: * **Inspire** – Get someone interested in joining the community. *...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 5, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
Just a quickie. John. S. Gruber (I assume the S stands for *superstar*), has just kicked out a new [Lernid](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lernid) release, version `0.8.1`. John is powering his way through the bug list and getting Lernid ship-shape ready for the [six months...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 1, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
Education and learning has always been an important part of the Ubuntu culture. It is important to us because we always want to present an environment in which everyone is welcome to participate, whatever your skills, location, or experience. We want to make it really...
