by Jono Bacon | Feb 3, 2011 | Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu
I am delighted to announce the [Community Leadership Summit 2011](https://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/), now in it’s third year! This year it takes place on the **23rd and 24th July 2011**, the weekend before [OSCON](https://www.oscon.com/oscon2011) at the...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 2, 2011 | Canonical, Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu
One thing we are always trying to improve and optimize is transparency in the Ubuntu project. One piece of work to this end is ensuring that the managers in the Ubuntu Engineering Team are available to answer questions that the community may have. As such, this week...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 1, 2011 | Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
The [Ubuntu Developer Summit](https://uds.ubuntu.com/) is our twice-yearly event in which the Ubuntu community gets together to discuss, design, and plan the work for the next release of Ubuntu. It is an important staple in the Ubuntu calendar, and we meet next in May...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 22, 2011 | Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu
A few weeks back I [wrote about my desire to make Ubuntu feel more personal](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/2011/01/07/making-ubuntu-more-personal/) for new and existing contributors. The goal here is to help community members to have a fulfilling experience in...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 18, 2011 | Canonical, Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu
[Mark](https://www.markshuttleworth.com/) recently [blogged](https://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/568) about plans to make [Qt](https://qt.nokia.com/products/) a first-class citizen alongside GTK in Ubuntu. He outlined the reason for the plan in the opening few...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 7, 2011 | Community, Planet GNOME, Ubuntu
Community is a *deeply personal* experience. While *write* communities such as Open Source get together to make things (as opposed to *read* communities who consume content together), the attraction and thrill is only partially in the collaboration. What really makes...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 3, 2011 | Community, Ubuntu
So here I am, and it is the night before I go back to work for my first day back in 2011. I have had some wonderful and frankly much needed time off work. Towards the end of 2010 I was pretty bushed and was ready to spend some time with my wife and family, my guitar,...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 3, 2011 | Community, Planet GNOME, Severed Fifth
We have an absolutely rocking development platform in the Ubuntu, GNOME, KDE and Linux and world. Today I was chatting to some of the [Severed Fifth](https://www.severedfifth.com/) Street Team folks and we were talking about how awesome a Severed Fifth Desktop App...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 2, 2011 | Community, Planet GNOME, Severed Fifth
2010 has been a great year for [Severed Fifth](https://www.severedfifth.com) and I am delighted with the growth in the project. Over the holiday I put together a *2010 Recapped* video which summarizes this progress, the growth of the [Severed Fifth Street...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 22, 2010 | Community, Ubuntu
As many of you will know, we have been working hard in the Ubuntu world to ensure that the transition to [Unity](https://unity.ubuntu.com) is not only smooth and painless, but also provides the best possible user experience. To do this the DX team, Ayatana community,...
