by Jono Bacon | Apr 23, 2013 | Community
Recently [Microsoft Open Technologies](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/openness/default.aspx#home) celebrated their one year anniversary. I just wanted to offer my congratulations on this important milestone. Now, it could be tempting for some of you to become a...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 22, 2013 | Ubuntu
Henry Ford, a great inspirational figure in the history of technological development once said that “when everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it”. Ford faced great technological...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 17, 2013 | Community, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
I just wanted to talk about a busy week of community management and leadership related content I will be involved in in July 2013 in Portland, Oregon. ## Community Leadership Summit 2013 The [Community Leadership Summit](https://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/) is...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 8, 2013 | Personal
Just a quick note: I will be on vacation this week in Australia. I will be checking in with work and email, but this will be more limited throughout the week. Look forward to seeing everyone in a week! Lots of exciting things to focus on when I get back....
by Jono Bacon | Mar 29, 2013 | Ubuntu
As some of you may know the dash team has been working to get the new [smart scopes functionality](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SmartScopes1304Spec) in the dash ready for 13.04; this functionality delivers a far more comprehensive dash experience, performing searches over...
by Jono Bacon | Mar 29, 2013 | BBQ
Recently I have been working on a project with my best buddy [Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge](https://www.kryogenix.org), called [BBQpad](https://www.bbqpad.com). I haven’t really talked much about it on my blog as we have been fixing up the rough edges, but...
by Jono Bacon | Mar 26, 2013 | Community, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
Continuing with the work to refine and improve how we build Ubuntu in an open, transparent, and collaborative way, I want to take a few minutes to discuss some work going on to improve the regularity of our planning and the benefits this brings. Traditionally planning...
by Jono Bacon | Mar 18, 2013 | Canonical, Community, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
Our community is at the heart of how we build Ubuntu. Recently there were some concerns expressed about some aspects of our community and I have been working with various community members and internally at Canonical to resolve some of these issues to make things...
by Jono Bacon | Mar 14, 2013 | Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
Last week we ran our very first virtual Ubuntu Developer Summit. The event lasted two days and gave us an opportunity to try out a new format and to see how well it worked. Generally it seems we got some pretty favorable feedback, but there are definitely some areas...
by Jono Bacon | Mar 13, 2013 | Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
This week’s live video Q&A is in a slightly later time slot this week on **Wednesday at 8pm UTC** ([click here for the time in your location this week](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20130313T20&p1=1440&ah=1)). As usual...
