by Jono Bacon | Nov 28, 2011 | Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu
Can’t see the video? [Click here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ObvGIUYjNE)! Now in it’s *fourth* year, the *Community Leadership Summit* is the annual event for community managers and leaders, attracting over 200 attendees from all around the world and...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 24, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu
Accessibility is a [core value](https://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/our-philosophy) for Ubuntu and we have a wonderful [Ubuntu Accessibility Team](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility) who are passionate about making Ubuntu a truly accessible platform for...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 23, 2011 | Canonical, Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu
Seen just now in a Google Hangout: Google, we [salute you](https://www.movember.com/).
by Jono Bacon | Nov 23, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
Our logo: a collection of horse parts creepily arranged to form an Ubuntu logo. One of the topics that we discussed at the recent [Ubuntu Developer Summit](https://uds.ubuntu.com) in Orlando was how my team, the *Canonical Community Team* at Canonical, can best serve...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 23, 2011 | Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu
Tonight Erica and I went to a candlelight vigil in nearby Danville. The vigil was honouring the life of a Danville-born marine who was killed recently in Afghanistan. We joined Erica’s family there to mark our respects. We didn’t know him and we...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 22, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
With the [Ubuntu Developer Summit](https://uds.ubuntu.com) now completed and the team back home and rested, I have been working with the horsemen to finalize, document, and define their focus in the 12.04 cycle. At the beginning of each cycle I usually announce the...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 22, 2011 | Canonical, Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
Just a quick reminder, tomorrow (Tues 22nd Nov 2011) we will be holding our usual weekly *Canonical Community Team* meeting at **8am Pacific / 11am Eastern / 4pm UK / 5pm Europe**. The meeting takes place in `#ubuntu-meeting` on the freenode IRC network. You can also...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 21, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
One of the most wonderful things about Open Source and collaborative community is that every community member participates in a *commons*; a shared area of community real-estate in which we can all contribute. As an example, with most small Open Source software...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 20, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
Today is *Ubuntu Appreciation Day* in which we share our thanks to people in our community for making Ubuntu great. At UDS we talked a lot about growing more of an *appreciation culture* in Ubuntu, and I love how today contributes to that goal. Unfortunately, picking...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 17, 2011 | Canonical, Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
I am delighted to announce that *Michael Hall*, also known as `mhall119` on IRC will be joining the *Canonical Community Team* and working with our upstreams, with a particular focus on growing participation in Unity and other upstreams closely related to Ubuntu....
