by Jono Bacon | Jul 14, 2011 | Community, Planet GNOME, Ubuntu
I am an Evolution user. While people seem to rag on Evo, I quite like it. In Oneiric though there has been discussion about switching to Thunderbird. I have always been a firm believer in *eating your own dogfood* where possible, so I decided to start using...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 11, 2011 | Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu
I am looking to hire a new member for my team (the *Community Team*) here at [Canonical](https://www.canonical.com). I am looking for a bright, motivated, and experienced person **to build, maintain and develop a cohesive, productive and effective Ubuntu QA...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 8, 2011 | Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu
Not long now until the [Community Leadership Summit 2011](https://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/); an annual event designed to bring together community leaders and managers to share best practice, ideas, and solutions. The event is entirely **free** and takes...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 7, 2011 | Community, LUGRadio, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu
A few weeks ago I was in the UK and got together with the [LugRadio](https://www.lugradio.org/) team (Stuart Langridge, Adam Sweet, Chris Procter, and Ade Bradshaw) for a bit of a reunion. Thanks to Tony Whitmore and Laura Cowen from the [Ubuntu UK...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 5, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
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/store/product.aspx?isbn=0132748509) by Mako, Amber Graner, Matthew Helmke and Corey Burger. The book...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 3, 2011 | Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
The Ubuntu Community Team. L-R: Jorge Castro, Daniel Holbach, John O’Bacon, Ahmed Kamal, David Planella Last week I flew to Dublin to meet with the rest of the Canonical Ubuntu Engineering team as well as members of the OEM Team, Linaro, and Launchpad. These...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 20, 2011 | Canonical, Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
For those of you who missed the news, *Ensemble* is the white-hot new cloud deployment technology from the Ubuntu project. To see it is action, [check out this screencast](https://cloud.ubuntu.com/2011/06/zero-to-ensemble-in-5-mins/) from Ahmed. While *Ensemble* is...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 16, 2011 | Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu
*With many of you folks who read my blog having an active interest in participating or growing a community of some sort, I am re-printing some portions of my book, [The Art of Community](https://www.artofcommunityonline.org) on my blog. I would feel guilty about doing...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 15, 2011 | Humor, Music, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu
Many moons ago, when computers were made out of oak and beige slacks, I recorded a heavy metal version of the [Free Software Song](https://www.gnu.org/music/free-software-song.html) that Richard Stallman cobbled together. When I recorded this song I didnt really have...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 14, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
*This post has nothing to do with Canonical, just one of my own hair-brained ideas*. I was traveling into San Francisco the other day, and I had an idea I wanted to share. This is very much just an idea, and given I don’t have the time to work on it, I just...
