by Jono Bacon | Mar 26, 2010 | Community, Ubuntu
For some time now I have been running a series of videocasts called [At Home With Jono Bacon](https://www.ustream.tv/channel/at-home-with-jono-bacon) on ustream.tv. These have been happening very Wednesday at **11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern / 6pm UTC/GMT**. In each...
by Jono Bacon | Mar 25, 2010 | Community, Desktop, Opportunistic Developers, Ubuntu
I just wanted to share something I am rather proud of. [Python Snippets](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PythonSnippets), the project I put together to gather an archive of simple Python examples that can be viewed with [Acire](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PythonSnippets) on your...
by Jono Bacon | Mar 24, 2010 | Community, Ubuntu
Today is [Ada Lovelace Day](https://findingada.com/); an important day in which we celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science. Like other positive equality-centric campaigns, the goal of the day is to highlight and bring awareness to great work and...
by Jono Bacon | Mar 24, 2010 | Community, Ubuntu
Just a quick note: I will hanging out for the [Ubuntu Global Jam](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam) at the Rockridge, California event which I put together for **Fri 26th March 2010** from **10am – 6pm**. It takes place at: > 3200 College Ave > (at...
by Jono Bacon | Mar 23, 2010 | Ubuntu
*This is the first article in a series of posts where I will be outlining some of the goals for my team for the Ubuntu 10.10 cycle which I am in the process of planning for.* At the heart of Ubuntu development are *gifts*. People join our community and contribute in a...
by Jono Bacon | Mar 23, 2010 | Ubuntu
Just a quick note to everyone: Friday 26th March 2010 is the deadline for applications for sponsorship to the [Ubuntu Developer Summit](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS) happening from **10 – 14 May 2010** in Belgium. For more details of how to apply, see [this...
by Jono Bacon | Mar 23, 2010 | Community, Ubuntu
Last week I posted a blog entry highlighting two internship opportunities on my team at Canonical, one for a *Ubuntu Community Documentation Author* and one for a *Ubuntu Community Web Developer*. After the announcement went out there was a little flame and fire...
by Jono Bacon | Mar 22, 2010 | Community, Desktop, Ubuntu
Today someone asked me how to run Acire and Python Snippets from source and contribute more snippets. I just wanted to pop up the instructions quickly here so I can point folks at them. These should work on Lucid and Karmic for sure, and very possibly older versions....
by Jono Bacon | Mar 22, 2010 | Community
Just a quick reminder to you good folks that [Ada Lovelace Day](https://findingada.com/) is happening on **Wed 24th March 2010**. For those of you unfamiliar with it, it is a fantastic initiative that was kicked off last year to highlight and celebrate the...
by Jono Bacon | Mar 22, 2010 | Community, Desktop, Ubuntu
[Nigel Babu](https://justanothertriager.wordpress.com/) has been working to spread the word about gathering some community steam around patches in Ubuntu. We have an incredibly fortunate situation in Ubuntu where lots of people spend their time and effort producing...
