by Jono Bacon | Jul 10, 2012 | Canonical, Community, Speaking
On Friday I will be traveling to Portland, Oregon to run the [Community Leadership Summit 2012](https://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/) this weekend and then join [OSCON](https://www.oscon.com/oscon2012) the following week. While I will be dipping into some...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 6, 2012 | Community
Just a quick reminder that in just over a week we will be hosting the [Community Leadership Summit 2012](https://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/) in Portland, Oregon on from **Sat, July 14, 2012 – Sun, July 15, 2012**. The event happens the weekend before the...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 28, 2012 | Community, Ubuntu Accomplishments
With the [Ubuntu Accomplishments](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accomplishments) project continuing to grow with work now firmly going into the 0.3 release, fixing bugs, and working on a web gallery for trophies and opportunities, there is a lot of exciting work going on....
by Jono Bacon | Jun 26, 2012 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
Last week the [Ubuntu App Showdown Contest](https://developer.ubuntu.com/showdown/) kicked off; a competition in which you lovely people have three weeks to create an awesome app that wows the judges on *functionality, presentation/integration, innovation,...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 22, 2012 | Community
This is a long post, so to keep you reading and engaged, I am going to intersperse amusing kitten photos to keep this ball rolling. Hang in there, folks. 🙂 We have a slippery slope forming in some communities (fortunately, I am not referring to Ubuntu here)...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 21, 2012 | Community, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Accomplishments
[Last week](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/2012/06/13/ubuntu-accomplishments-0-2-released/) we released the **0.2** release of [Ubuntu Accomplishments](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accomplishments). As is typical with a new release, as soon as it comes out and you are...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 21, 2012 | Community, Ubuntu
Last night I created a tutorial video for how to get started creating your very first app for Ubuntu. In the tutorial I show you how to create a simple web browser by generating a new project, customizing the user interface, writing some code, and then generating a...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 17, 2012 | Personal
I am delighted to share with you folks that my wife Erica and I are expecting our first child. Erica is coming up to 20 weeks and we will be due in November. We don’t know the gender of the baby, but we will find out in the next few weeks. Naturally we are both...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 13, 2012 | Community, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Accomplishments
Today I am delighted to announce the availability of our second [Ubuntu Accomplishments](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accomplishments) release: version **0.2**. You can read more about the release below, or the impatient among you can [install...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 12, 2012 | Art Of Community, Community, Ubuntu
Back in 2009 I had my book on community management and best practice published. It was called [The Art of Community](https://www.artofcommunityonline.org/), published by [O’Reilly](https://www.oreilly.com). When it came out I was pretty nervous. It was arguably...
