by Jono Bacon | Apr 30, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
I really dig [Ubuntu One](https://one.ubuntu.com/). I love the file sharing, the music store, the contact syncing, the music streaming, the bookmark syncing…I love how I can fire up a new computer and things get synced and I am good to go. I think the Ubuntu One...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 28, 2011 | Canonical, Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
Today we released Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, and you can [find out more about it](https://www.ubuntu.com/) and [download it here](https://www.ubuntu.com/download). This has been a ferociously busy cycle and with it we set out with significant, audacious goals. We...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 27, 2011 | Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
[Elizabeth](https://princessleia.com/journal/?p=4297) blogged it already, but I thought I would pump it through my loudspeaker too. If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday night (28th April at 7.30pm), be sure to head over to the [Thirsty...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 18, 2011 | Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
I have an idea for something that I think could be a fun little meme. I would like to encourage all of you to join in. All you need is a blog. Let’s face it, *none of us* are perfect. We all have areas in which we can be better people and learn ways in which we...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 15, 2011 | Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, [Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 2 is released](https://www.ubuntu.com/testing/natty/beta) and this will be the last development release before we unleash the final official lovable Narwhal into the wild on **Thu 28th April 2011**. This means...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 11, 2011 | Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu
*Recently a friend of mine asked me to contribute to a free book that collates together the experiences of various people involved in Open Source. She asked me to write about what I would tell myself ‘if I knew what I know today’. I was pretty intrigued by...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 11, 2011 | Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu
The [Community Leadership Summit 2011](https://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/) is the third incarnation of the popular **free** event designed to bring together community leaders and managers and the projects and organizations that are interested in growing and...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 6, 2011 | Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
I am about to head out to the Linux Collaboration Summit, so I won’t be online when GNOME 3 hits the tubes in a few hours, so I just wanted to offer my congratulations in advance to the GNOME 3 team for their wonderful achievement in delivering [GNOME...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 5, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
Today it was [announced](https://blog.canonical.com/?p=551) that ShipIt, the free CD service that Canonical has been running since the inception of Ubuntu will be discontinued. I know some [LoCo Teams](https://loco.ubuntu.com) may be worried about this, so I wanted to...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 5, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
*This is a personal post and does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of my employer, Canonical*. Wow, what a cycle the Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal one has been. When we set out on this mission back in October 2010 there were uncertain waters ahead of us....