by Jono Bacon | Feb 6, 2010 | Random
I love being married, it has opened up an incredible sense of commitment and security in my life and my wife’s life. Love is love, and I would never want to prevent anyone from enjoying what I am afforded the privilage of enjoying. This includes gay people. As...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 4, 2010 | Desktop, Opportunistic Developers, Ubuntu
In the continued interests of making Ubuntu a rocking platform for opportunistic developers, today we formulated the plan for *Project Awesome Opportunity*. The goal is simple: build an opportunistic development workflow into Ubuntu. You will install one package from...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 1, 2010 | Ubuntu
Are you good folks aware of what is happening on **26th – 28th March 2010**. But of course, it is the [Ubuntu Global Jam](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam)! In the last few cycles we have organized and run an event called the *Ubuntu Global Jam*. The idea...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 30, 2010 | Desktop, Ubuntu
Something [I have](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/2009/10/19/ubuntu-and-the-opportunistic-programmer/) [talked about](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/2009/12/19/unchaining-the-opportunistic-programmer/)...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 28, 2010 | Lernid, Ubuntu
This week has been a big week for [Lernid](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lernid) in which it has received some comprehensive testing, feedback and exposure because of the always awesome [Ubuntu Developer Week](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek). It has been...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 26, 2010 | Desktop, Ubuntu
Recently I have been talking about how stoked I am that we are [solving the problems](https://gould.cx/ted/blog/Having_a_tidy_systray) in the notification area with [Application Indicators](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/ApplicationIndicators) based on...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 25, 2010 | Lernid, Ubuntu
This week the always awesome [Ubuntu Developer Week](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek) starts! I am hugely excited about this week, and I can’t wait to see the many fantastic sessions that will be taking place. Connecting to *Ubuntu Developer Week*...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 15, 2010 | Ubuntu
Just a quick note to offer my congratulations to the always affable [Amber Graner](https://amber.redvoodoo.org/) for her appointment as leader of the [Ubuntu Women](https://ubuntu-women.org/) project. All of the candidates (Melissa Draper, Penelope Stowe and Amber)...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 14, 2010 | Desktop, Ubuntu
Something we have been spending some time working on in this cycle has been fixing the mess that is the system tray. This is based upon an [awesome specification submitted to Freedesktop by KDE](https://www.notmart.org/misc/statusnotifieritem/index.html). The spec has...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 13, 2010 | Desktop, Ubuntu
We are currently looking for two paid home-based contractor positions in Europe or the USA to come and work at Canonical to write some upstream code to help GNOME applications fit into the full Ubuntu desktop experience. This is an awesome opportunity for talented...
