by Jono Bacon | Jan 25, 2010 | Lernid, Ubuntu
This week the always awesome [Ubuntu Developer Week](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek) starts! I am hugely excited about this week, and I can’t wait to see the many fantastic sessions that will be taking place. Connecting to *Ubuntu Developer Week*...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 15, 2010 | Ubuntu
Just a quick note to offer my congratulations to the always affable [Amber Graner](https://amber.redvoodoo.org/) for her appointment as leader of the [Ubuntu Women](https://ubuntu-women.org/) project. All of the candidates (Melissa Draper, Penelope Stowe and Amber)...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 14, 2010 | Desktop, Ubuntu
Something we have been spending some time working on in this cycle has been fixing the mess that is the system tray. This is based upon an [awesome specification submitted to Freedesktop by KDE](https://www.notmart.org/misc/statusnotifieritem/index.html). The spec has...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 13, 2010 | Desktop, Ubuntu
We are currently looking for two paid home-based contractor positions in Europe or the USA to come and work at Canonical to write some upstream code to help GNOME applications fit into the full Ubuntu desktop experience. This is an awesome opportunity for talented...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 12, 2010 | Ubuntu
Folks, we are back with another [Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFreeCultureShowcase)! The Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase is an opportunity to bring the best of two great worlds together by showing off high quality Free Culture content in...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 6, 2010 | Ubuntu
For those of you who have read the [recent Slashdot article announcing Ubuntu’s new membership programme](https://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/01/06/1420209/Ubuntu-Memberships-Introduced), this is clearly a mistake. Ubuntu has had the concept of membership for...
