by Jono Bacon | Sep 11, 2012 | Canonical, Community, Ubuntu
I just wanted to let you folks know that unfortunately I won’t be joining you in person at the next [Ubuntu Developer Summit](https://uds.ubuntu.com/) in Copenhagen in October. The timing of the event is too close for comfort to the due date for our first baby...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 6, 2012 | Canonical, Community, Ubuntu
Recently I have been working with *David Planella* and *Michael Hall* on my team around a [new specification](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppDevUploadProcess) for empowering app developers to deliver their content in Ubuntu. This post provides some background information...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 17, 2012 | Community
Photo Credit Like many others, I just wanted to offer my birthday wishes to [Debian](https://www.debian.org/)! Debian continues to be the rock on which Ubuntu is built, and many thanks to the wonderful Debian community for all their wonderful work. Without Debian...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 14, 2012 | Community, Ubuntu Accomplishments
Today I put together a short video showing the evolution of the [Ubuntu Accomplishments](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accomplishments) code base: *Can’t see the video? See it [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFWvm965iYM)!* Thanks to everyone who has joined the...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 13, 2012 | Community, Ubuntu
You should all see [this wonderfully inspiring story](https://ifixit.org/3001/how-one-teacher-built-a-computer-lab-for-free/) of a teach who created a school computer lab for $0 using old computers running Ubuntu. There is a fantastic video you should see that is part...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 13, 2012 | BBQ
I usually use my blog for talking about my work and technology-related projects, but today I wanted to share a fun adventure that I have been on recently. There is nothing Ubuntu or community management related in here, but I think it my tickle the interest of some of...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 10, 2012 | Community
When I was at the [Community Leadership Summit](https://communityleadershipsummit.com/) and [OSCON](https://oscon.com/) a few weeks back I had the pleasure of meeting *Masafumi Ohta* who is a passionate Ubuntu user who had flown from Nerima-ku in Japan to the event....
by Jono Bacon | Aug 9, 2012 | Community
Once again we have a wonderful free book to give away from Prentice Hall, the rather spanky-awesome publishers of [The Official Ubuntu Book](https://www.informit.com/title/0133017605) by Matthew Helmke and Amber Graner with Kyle Rankin, Benjamin Mako Hill, and myself....
by Jono Bacon | Aug 7, 2012 | Community, Ubuntu Accomplishments
Just a quick reminder to you lovely people that we will be having some live video tutorial sessions over the next few days that explain how [Ubuntu Accomplishments](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accomplishments) works and how to get involved in the project. You can join all...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 3, 2012 | Community, Ubuntu Accomplishments
Progress on [Ubuntu Accomplishments](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accomplishments) has been moving apace. For those of you who have not been keeping score, we [released...