by Jono Bacon | Apr 15, 2011 | Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, [Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 2 is released](https://www.ubuntu.com/testing/natty/beta) and this will be the last development release before we unleash the final official lovable Narwhal into the wild on **Thu 28th April 2011**. This means...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 6, 2011 | Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
I am about to head out to the Linux Collaboration Summit, so I won’t be online when GNOME 3 hits the tubes in a few hours, so I just wanted to offer my congratulations in advance to the GNOME 3 team for their wonderful achievement in delivering [GNOME...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 5, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
Today it was [announced](https://blog.canonical.com/?p=551) that ShipIt, the free CD service that Canonical has been running since the inception of Ubuntu will be discontinued. I know some [LoCo Teams](https://loco.ubuntu.com) may be worried about this, so I wanted to...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 5, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
*This is a personal post and does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of my employer, Canonical*. Wow, what a cycle the Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal one has been. When we set out on this mission back in October 2010 there were uncertain waters ahead of us....
by Jono Bacon | Mar 28, 2011 | Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
Just a quick note to let you all know that the [Ubuntu Developer Summit](https://uds.ubuntu.com/) sponsorship deadline closes tomorrow (Tues 29th March 2011). Be sure to [get your sponsorship request in](https://uds.ubuntu.com/participate/sponsorship/).
by Jono Bacon | Mar 28, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Usability
I want to share a short story with you folks as the basis for a little challenge I wanted to set. Let me start at the beginning. A little while back *John Lea*, a member of the [Canonical Design Team](https://design.canonical.com/) filed [this...
