by Jono Bacon | Jun 13, 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 | Jun 8, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu
Just a quick note that I will be delivering my *Burnout: Detecting it, avoiding it, preventing it* session online tomorrow, **Thu 9th June 2011** at **11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern / 6pm UTC / 7pm / 8pm Europe**. In the session I will discuss about the different stages...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 7, 2011 | Community, Desktop, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
On Thursday 28th April 2011 we released [Ubuntu 11.04](https://www.ubuntu.com/), the *Natty Narwhal*. It was a big release for us. It was the first desktop release that shipped [Unity](https://unity.ubuntu.com/); our new desktop interface designed to bridge the chasm...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 6, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
One of the primary goals in the Ubuntu community is to encourage and inspire people to get involved in different parts of the project. Getting people involved typically requires a few key steps: * **Inspire** – Get someone interested in joining the community. *...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 5, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
Just a quickie. John. S. Gruber (I assume the S stands for *superstar*), has just kicked out a new [Lernid](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lernid) release, version `0.8.1`. John is powering his way through the bug list and getting Lernid ship-shape ready for the [six months...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 3, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
I just wanted to highlight a few awesome projects going on that are looking for help and could provide a rocking place to get involved for coders, testers, translators, docs writers and more. Of course there are many other projects that need help, but I just wanted to...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 1, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
Education and learning has always been an important part of the Ubuntu culture. It is important to us because we always want to present an environment in which everyone is welcome to participate, whatever your skills, location, or experience. We want to make it really...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 1, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
As part of the work going in to [make loco.ubuntu.com tab-worthy](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/2011/05/26/future-loco-team-portal-plans/), we need to know what the most awesome blog feeds are for LoCo content. Do you have a blog about your LoCo team? Do you...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 1, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu
I just wanted to share a fun little story with you all. On Friday I got up and as I often do, wrote a good morning tweet on my [Twitter feed](https://www.twitter.com/jonobacon): > Morning peeps, how are we all doing today? Ready for the weekend? It has been a busy...
by Jono Bacon | May 31, 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 going to re-print some portions of my book, [The Art of Community](https://www.artofcommunityonline.org) on my blog. I would feel guilty about...
