by Jono Bacon | Nov 9, 2009 | Canonical, Free Culture
Melissa from the [Creative Commons](https://www.creativecommons.org/) pointed me to the [rather good news](https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/19086) that Canonical’s offer to match Creative Commons donations up to $3000 has already been matched: > [Just...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 9, 2009 | Random
One year ago today, I married the love of my life, Erica. From the minute we went on our first date, I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her. We instantly developed a close connection; a bond that spans beliefs, interests, ambitions and tastes. Since...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 6, 2009 | Community, Ubuntu
There has been a little bit o’chatter on the tubes recently regarding quality and our recent release, [Ubuntu 9.10](https://www.ubuntu.com/). There we were on Thursday, champagne in hand, kicking a new release out the door and while I have seen countless reports...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 5, 2009 | Community
Thanks to my friends over at [ZDNet](https://blogs.zdnet.com/) for allowing me to post another guest article on their [Between The Lines](https://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?tag=trunk;content) column. This time I have written an article discussing the importance of a...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 5, 2009 | Art Of Community, Community
It may have changed by the time you read this, but [The Art of Community](https://www.artofcommunityonline.org) has now hit the #1 slot for the Business and Culture category *Amazon.com*: You can see it on [this...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 5, 2009 | Art Of Community
Just a quick note: I am doing a webinar on my book The [Art of Community](https://www.artofcommunityonline.org/) at 9am Pacific today. You can join us [here](https://tinyurl.com/yzd5yjv). 🙂
by Jono Bacon | Nov 5, 2009 | Canonical, Free Culture, Ubuntu
Here at [Canonical](https://www.canonical.com/) we are all big fans of the [Creative Commons](https://creativecommons.org/). For those of you unfamiliar with them, they have created [a set of Free Culture licenses](https://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/) that...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 4, 2009 | Community, LUGRadio
Last year we wrapped up [LugRadio](https://www.lugradio.org/) after five seasons, over 2million downloads and six live events. For over a year now [Tony Whitmore](https://tonywhitmore.co.uk/) from the excellent [ubuntu-uk Podcast](https://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/) has...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 4, 2009 | Ubuntu
In a few weeks the [Ubuntu Developer Summit](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS) kicks off in Dallas. There will be discussing a wide range of topics across seven tracks: *community, kernel, desktop, qa, foundations, mobile* and *server*. We are about to begin scheduling...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 3, 2009 | Shot Of Jaq
Just a quick note to let you good folks know that the [Shot Of Jaq](https://www.shotofjaq.org/) website is now open at [www.shotofjaq.org](https://www.shotofjaq.org/) – come and join the beginnings of our community. If you have no idea what *Shot Of Jaq* is,...
