by Jono Bacon | Jun 30, 2013 | Personal
Later this year Erica and I are having our five year anniversary. I can’t quite believe that five years have passed since we said *I do*, and we couldn’t be happier. Consequently, we are going to renew our vows and have a bit of a gathering. The gathering...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 28, 2013 | Canonical, Community, Ubuntu
Many of you will have seen the recent news about [Mir](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir) coming to Ubuntu 13.10 in October 2013. For those of you who are unaware of Mir, it is an Open Source display server we are building that we will use across desktops, phones, tablets,...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 26, 2013 | Canonical, Community, Ubuntu
Today we had our first *Ubuntu Weekly Update* with summaries from engineering managers and leads for Mir, Unity, Juju (Core and Ecosystem), Click, Smart Scopes, Ubuntu Touch, Community, and other areas. After the summaries we opened up the session to questions from...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 24, 2013 | Canonical, Community, Ubuntu
We have been working hard to ensure that the various engineering teams working on different parts of Ubuntu are being as open and transparent as possible. This has included many of these teams (e.g. Unity, Mir, App Development etc) sending regular weekly updates of...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 19, 2013 | Canonical, Community, Ubuntu
This week I am pleased to announce two Q&A sessions to get all your juicy Ubuntu-related questions answered: * **Wed 19th June** – taking place an hour earlier this week at **6pm UTC** will be my usual weekly Q&A session where you are welcome to bring...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 18, 2013 | Canonical, Community, Ubuntu
We are working on a powerful vision with Ubuntu; to build a convergent Operating System that runs on [phones](https://www.ubuntu.com/phone), [tablets](https://www.ubuntu.com/tablet), [desktops](https://www.ubuntu.com/desktop), and [TVs](https://www.ubuntu.com/tv). A...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 17, 2013 | Cloud, Community, Ubuntu
Last week I had a neat idea. Well, at least *I* think it is a neat idea. Let me share it with you folks to get your take. We have been spending a lot of time refining every aspect of the application development process for writing Ubuntu phone/tablet/desktop...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 17, 2013 | Ubuntu
Ever since we first announced Ubuntu for phones on January 2nd this year, a fantastic relationship with our friends in the [XDA community](https://www.xda-developers.com/) has formed. For quite some time now we have been releasing [daily images of Ubuntu for...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 14, 2013 | Community, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
The Ubuntu community is a core part of what makes us what we are, and right at the center of that are our Ubuntu Members. Ubuntu Members provide *significant and sustained* contributions over a wide range of areas such as packaging, documentation, programming,...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 14, 2013 | Ubuntu
In recent months we have been seeing *tremendous* growth and interest in the [Ubuntu SDK](https://developer.ubuntu.com/get-started/) that is at the heart of building applications for Ubuntu for phones, tablets, desktops, and TVs. The SDK provides the ability to build...
