by Jono Bacon | Jan 13, 2010 | Shot Of Jaq
[Shot Of Jaq](https://www.shotofjaq.org/) is a ten minute, twice-weekly technology and Open Source podcast that is specifically designed to be the *start* of the conversation. We have taken care to build an environment optimized around conversation and discussion, and...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 12, 2010 | Acire, Python Snippets
As I have blogged about recently, I have been really getting into the idea of enabling opportunistic developers to get to grips with writing applications for the Open Source desktop as easily as possible. This has including raving about the awesome...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 12, 2010 | Acire
I am pleased to announce the second release of my little project to browse, read, run and learn from a library of Python examples. This release brings us: * Examples now have syntax highlighting and use a better font for reading code. * An awesome new icon designed by...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 12, 2010 | Ubuntu
Folks, we are back with another [Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFreeCultureShowcase)! The Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase is an opportunity to bring the best of two great worlds together by showing off high quality Free Culture content in...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 8, 2010 | Acire
A few weeks back I [blogged about](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/2009/12/30/announcing-acire/) my new program *Acire*: a simple little tool that provides a library of Python examples called *snippets* that outline how to do specific taks. With each snippet you...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 6, 2010 | Ubuntu
For those of you who have read the [recent Slashdot article announcing Ubuntu’s new membership programme](https://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/01/06/1420209/Ubuntu-Memberships-Introduced), this is clearly a mistake. Ubuntu has had the concept of membership for...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 6, 2010 | Community, Ubuntu
Just a quick note that tomorrow (Wed 6th Jan 2010) at 7pm UTC/ 11am Pacific / 1pm Eastern, I will be starting back up with *At Home With Jono Bacon*: my series of videocasts about community growth and building, and sharing work and approaches with the communities that...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 5, 2010 | Lernid, Ubuntu
I have just released [Lernid](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lernid) 0.4 to the [Lernid Releases PPA](https://edge.launchpad.net/~lernid-devs/+archive/lernid-releases). This release incorporates the final features that I planned out for the first major release, and it is now...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 30, 2009 | Acire, Community, Desktop, Ubuntu
After a wonderful week in England with family celebrating Christmas, Erica and I flew home to the East Bay. We were sat at Heathrow having a cup of coffee and I was thinking of what I occupy myself with on the plane ride over. Unfortunately,...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 24, 2009 | Community, Lernid, Ubuntu
Tonight I completed a bunch of hacks on [Lernid](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lernid) and a number of new bug fixes, improvements and refinements have landed. To best explain where Lernid stands, I wanted to perform a little walkthrough of how it works. Imagine you are...
