by Jono Bacon | Dec 23, 2009 | Community, Lernid, Ubuntu
I just wanted to share a cool new feature I just hacked into [Lernid](https://www.launchpad.net/lernid) today. The current cut of the feature is still very new, but it works great. I have added *slide support*. 🙂 This is how it works: imagine you are giving a session...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 22, 2009 | Art Of Community, Community
Two lovely nuggets of [Art Of Community](https://www.artofcommunityonline.org) information to share: * Firstly, *The Art Of Community* was rated #2 in [Top 10 must-have books on social...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 19, 2009 | Lernid, Shot Of Jaq, Ubuntu
Recently I have been writing a lot about [Lernid](https://www.launchpad.net/lernid), an application that makes online learning events more fun and more accessible, and at the heart of what has enabled me to write Lernid is [Quickly](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Quickly); a...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 17, 2009 | Community, Ubuntu
As many of you will know, I manage the Ubuntu Community Team at Canonical, which has horsemen Holbach, Castro and Planella in it. A large chunk of my job is to take into account the wide range of needs from our different stakeholders (community teams, Canonical teams,...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 17, 2009 | Desktop, Ubuntu
I am really excited to see [Ted’s post](https://gould.cx/ted/blog/Having_a_tidy_systray) regarding some of the improvements coming to the desktop notification area. This part of our desktop has become something of a wild west – icons look ugly, are spaced...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 16, 2009 | Art Of Community
Just a quick post to outline two recent articles that are online: * [Communitizing the community with community tools](https://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=28330&tag=col1;post-28330) -thanks to my friends over at ZDNet for publishing this for me. This is an overview of...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 15, 2009 | Ubuntu
Tonight I had an idea I wanted to run past Ubuntu community folks. I think it could be fun to have an *Ubuntu Community Hackfest*. In it we would pick two days and devote them to hacking on software projects that are community-related. This could include existing...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 14, 2009 | Community
I just had another article published on ZDNet. This one is called [Community Meetings: Rock Not Ramble](https://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=28260&tag=col1;post-28260) and talks about how to get the most out of online discussion meetings. It begins: > At the heart of...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 10, 2009 | Lernid, Ubuntu
Today I kicked out a new release of Lernid – Lernid 0.3. This release packs in some juicy new features and bug fixes, and we are edging closer to Lernid 1.0 ready for our next major learning event: [Ubuntu Developer...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 10, 2009 | Shot Of Jaq
It has been a few weeks now since [Aq](https://www.kryogenix.org/) and I started doing our new podcast, [Shot Of Jaq](https://www.shotofjaq.org/). What a crazy few weeks. As some of you will know, we did [LugRadio](https://www.lugradio.org/) for four years, and we...
