by Jono Bacon | Dec 17, 2009 | Community, Ubuntu
As many of you will know, I manage the Ubuntu Community Team at Canonical, which has horsemen Holbach, Castro and Planella in it. A large chunk of my job is to take into account the wide range of needs from our different stakeholders (community teams, Canonical teams,...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 17, 2009 | Desktop, Ubuntu
I am really excited to see [Ted’s post](https://gould.cx/ted/blog/Having_a_tidy_systray) regarding some of the improvements coming to the desktop notification area. This part of our desktop has become something of a wild west – icons look ugly, are spaced...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 15, 2009 | Ubuntu
Tonight I had an idea I wanted to run past Ubuntu community folks. I think it could be fun to have an *Ubuntu Community Hackfest*. In it we would pick two days and devote them to hacking on software projects that are community-related. This could include existing...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 10, 2009 | Lernid, Ubuntu
Today I kicked out a new release of Lernid – Lernid 0.3. This release packs in some juicy new features and bug fixes, and we are edging closer to Lernid 1.0 ready for our next major learning event: [Ubuntu Developer...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 8, 2009 | Random, Ubuntu
Yesterday a package arrived on my doorstep. Not just a package, but a big one, and I had not ordered anything that big to be delivered. Lo and behold, said package had my name on it and the sticker said it was from **Pete Graner**, who is my colleague at Canonical...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 7, 2009 | Lernid, Ubuntu
Thanks to the awesome Nathan ‘nhandler’ Handler, we now have a daily builds PPA for [Lernid](https://www.launchpad.net/lernid). This means you can run the unstable, daily, crack-of-the-day version of Lernid and have it delivered automatically right to your...
