by Jono Bacon | May 16, 2013 | Community, Ubuntu
Recently the Technical Board [made a decision to sunset Brainstorm](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TechnicalBoard/TeamReports/13/May), the site we have been using for some time to capture a list of what folks would like to see fixed and improved in Ubuntu. Although the site...
by Jono Bacon | May 14, 2013 | Community, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
Hot on the heels of [my last post](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/2013/05/14/video-demo-of-unity-next-on-mir/) showing Unity 8 running on Mir on a Macbook Pro Retina, there were some folks who were curious about how well Unity and Mir work on a phone. Well, thanks...
by Jono Bacon | May 14, 2013 | Community, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
Recently the [Mir](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir) and [Unity Next](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnityNextSpec) teams got Unity 8 up and running on Mir. Now, this work is still very early in development and neither Mir nor Unity Next are finished yet, but I reached out to...
by Jono Bacon | May 14, 2013 | Community, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
As a pretty simple-minded person, I am a big fan of simplicity. The world is filled with too much complexity and too much detail. Many often feel the detail is necessary for particular outcomes or to solve particular problems. The lesson I have learned as I have...
by Jono Bacon | May 14, 2013 | Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
Just a quick note to remind everyone that our next [Ubuntu Developer Summit](https://uds.ubuntu.com/) is taking place this week on *Tuesday, Wednesday* and *Thursday*, and is open and available to everyone to participate. This is the event where we get together to...
by Jono Bacon | May 6, 2013 | Ubuntu
Last week I traveled to Oakland to spend a week with my colleagues at Canonical for the Client Sprint. The aim of the sprint was to ensure the many different teams working on Ubuntu Touch at Canonical are in sync and working as efficiently as possible. This largely...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 26, 2013 | Health, Personal
I have a theory (I know, I am full of them). Like most of you, as I have gotten older I have also tried to improve as a person. I am not just talking about being better at what I do with my career and hobbies, but I want to be a *genuinely good person* across the...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 25, 2013 | Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
Ubuntu 13.04, the Raring Ringtail, was [released today](https://www.ubuntu.com/). Go and download it for [Desktop](https://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop), [Server](https://www.ubuntu.com/download/server), [Cloud](https://www.ubuntu.com/download/cloud), and for our...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 25, 2013 | Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
Ubuntu is on an exciting journey, a journey of convergence. Our goal is to build a convergent Operating System that brings a uniformity of technology and experience across phones, tablets, desktops, and televisions, and smoothing the lines between those devices in...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 23, 2013 | Writing
I have an interesting idea I wanted to share that I am calling *Three Point Blogging*, and I am keen to get your input on this. Feel free to use that daintily prepared comment box, rummaging around at the bottom of this post, to share your feedback and ideas. Blogging...
