by Jono Bacon | Dec 8, 2009 | Music
Five years ago today, one of my heroes was murdered. [Dimebag Darrell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimebag_Darrell), guitarist from Pantera, Damageplan and Rebel Meets Rebel was shot while performing in Columbus, Ohio by Nathan Gale, a crazed fan disgruntled with...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 8, 2009 | Random, Ubuntu
Yesterday a package arrived on my doorstep. Not just a package, but a big one, and I had not ordered anything that big to be delivered. Lo and behold, said package had my name on it and the sticker said it was from **Pete Graner**, who is my colleague at Canonical...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 7, 2009 | Lernid, Ubuntu
Thanks to the awesome Nathan ‘nhandler’ Handler, we now have a daily builds PPA for [Lernid](https://www.launchpad.net/lernid). This means you can run the unstable, daily, crack-of-the-day version of Lernid and have it delivered automatically right to your...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 6, 2009 | Lernid, Ubuntu
Hi all, just weighing in with another update on my pet project – [Lernid](https://www.launchpad.net/lernid/). I have added a bunch of new features this week to Lernid: * **Notifications** – events that are shown in the event list will now appear in the...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 3, 2009 | Lernid
Another quick [Lernid](https://www.launchpad.net/lernid) update. So far, Lernid has merely provided a streamlined interface to the common components in [Ubuntu Open Week](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek) or [Ubuntu Developer...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 1, 2009 | Lernid, Ubuntu
I am pleased to announce an early snapshot release of [Lernid](https://www.launchpad.net/lernid): a little program to make connecting to Ubuntu learning events simple. Lernid is still very much in development, and still needs lots of work before it is ready for our...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 30, 2009 | Lernid, Ubuntu
Time for a quick update on [Lernid](https://www.launchpad.net/lernid), a little program I have been writing to make it as easy as possible to get involved in online Ubuntu events such as [Ubuntu Open Week](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek) and [Ubuntu Developer...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 28, 2009 | Shot Of Jaq
Yesterday we [kicked out our first proper episode of Shot Of Jaq](https://shotofjaq.org/2009/11/the-great-twitter-gravy-train/) and I am chuffed to bits with the response. Right now it stands at 42 comments, and I am sure this will continue to grow. The whole idea...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 25, 2009 | Ubuntu
Last week, while at the [Ubuntu Developer Summit](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS) in Dallas I mentioned in one of the roundtables about how wicked-cool it would be to have a desktop client for [Ubuntu Open Week](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek), [Ubuntu Developer...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 10, 2009 | Community, Ubuntu
One of the challenges that every community faces, particularly teams inside a larger community, is the ability to coordinate what goals and ambitions the team is going to work on. Traditionally this has always been somewhat ad-hoc: people join a team and work on...
