by Jono Bacon | Mar 1, 2010 | Community, Desktop, Opportunistic Developers, Ubuntu
Just a quick note to let you all know that [Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpportunisticDeveloperWeek) kicks off in an hour! Here is the order of events for today: * **4pm UTC** – Welcome! Ubuntu For Opportunistic Developers...
by Jono Bacon | Mar 1, 2010 | Community, Desktop, Opportunistic Developers, Ubuntu
Well, folks, this week [Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpportunisticDeveloperWeek) kicks off with a fantastic week jammed with great sessions helping to bridge the gap for opportunistic developers who want to write fun, useful...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 27, 2010 | Acire, Community, Desktop, Opportunistic Developers, Ubuntu
With the [new release of Acire just out](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/2010/02/26/acire-0-3-released/) I wanted to tell you folks a fun little story of an added benefit to Acire that I never envisaged when I came up with the idea for the app. Yesterday I got an...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 26, 2010 | Acire, Desktop, Opportunistic Developers, Ubuntu
Everyone’s favorite tool to browse Python snippets, run them, learn from them and incorporate them into your programs has been released! This new release has the following new features: * **Translated** – Acire has now got support for multiple languages,...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 25, 2010 | Community, Desktop, Opportunistic Developers, Ubuntu
Yesterday I gave my talk on *opportunistic developers* on ustream.tv (which I plan on repeating next week). In that session I floated the idea of having a fun challenge next week when [Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 25, 2010 | Community, Opportunistic Developers, Ubuntu
If you are new to Python and coding, Rick Spencer from the desktop team will be running some beginners Python tuition sessions in an hour: * Thu 25th Feb 2010 – 15.00 UTC – Ubuntu Opp Dev Week Prep: Intro to Python for *total beginners* * Thu 25th Feb 2010...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 25, 2010 | Lernid, Opportunistic Developers, Ubuntu
Ready for the awesomeness that is [Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpportunisticDeveloperWeek), we have a shiny new [Lernid](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lernid) for you all to rock the week with. Lernid is the online learning tool for...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 24, 2010 | Opportunistic Developers, Ubuntu, Uncategorized
I just wanted to summarize some fun *opportunistic developer* things going on over the next few weeks. all of these events provide a great opportunity to get started having fun making awesome apps that you can share with others. ## Presenting The Opportunistic...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 23, 2010 | Opportunistic Developers, Ubuntu
On **Wednesday 24th Feb at 11am / 2pm EST / 7pm UTC/GMT** I will be giving the talk that I delivered this past weekend at SCALE in LA in which I talk about the work going on in the Ubuntu community to embrace *Opportunistic Developers* in writing awesome free software...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 23, 2010 | Ubuntu
Two awesome new features that the Ubuntu Software Center recently got in Lucid: * **Featured Category** – there is a special top-level category for highly recommended applications that we don’t have room for on the disc. This includes the GIMP and Abiword...
