by Jono Bacon | Nov 7, 2013 | Desktop
Many congratulations to my friends in the [Fedora](https://fedoraproject.org/) community for your 10th anniversary! Fedora is such an important part of the wider Open Source and Free Software community and filled with many, many good people doing great work. I hope...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 5, 2013 | Charity, Creative Commons, Free Culture
I am running a fund-raising campaign for [WaterAid](https://www.wateraid.org/) to provide clean and sanitary water for poorer parts of the world. Dirty water is the source of so many health problems in the world, and I hope I can help a little in the wider cause. To...
by Jono Bacon | Oct 26, 2013 | Bad Voltage
Some years ago I used to do a podcast called [LugRadio](https://www.lugradio.org). We did it for four years, delivered 140+ episodes, had 2 million downloads, and it spawned five live events. We wrapped it up as I moved to the USA, but then a little later [Stuart...
by Jono Bacon | Oct 22, 2013 | Canonical, Cloud, Ubuntu
Many of you will have heard about Ubuntu’s convergence goals on the client side — running a single, consistent code-base and experience that adapts to phones, desktops, tablets, and TVs…but are you aware of our *convergence on the cloud*? Ubuntu and...
by Jono Bacon | Oct 18, 2013 | Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
Ubuntu 13.10 is out, get it [here](https://www.ubuntu.com)! This release packs some significant punch – we have the first version of Ubuntu for phones, Mir is shipping on the phone images, a new Ubuntu SDK, an entirely new app developer upload experience, new...
by Jono Bacon | Oct 10, 2013 | Ubuntu
Just to share with my good friends on Planet Ubuntu…with update 90 on the Ubuntu for phone images Mir has been enabled by default. So far everything is working pretty smoothly on my Nexus 4. There are some bugs, which is to be expected, but nothing major from...
by Jono Bacon | Oct 5, 2013 | Ubuntu
Today I took a short screencast of the [winner of the Ubuntu App Showdown](https://developer.ubuntu.com/2013/10/winners-of-the-2013-ubuntu-app-showdown/), a neat reddit client called *Karma Machine*. In the video you can see the app first at the size of a phone as I...
by Jono Bacon | Oct 4, 2013 | Ubuntu
The 13.10 cycle has been one of the most hectic I have personally ever experienced with Ubuntu. In this cycle we have built the key ingredients in our convergence story…Unity 8, Mir, the Ubuntu SDK, a full app upload process…and this work is forming a...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 21, 2013 | Community, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
I have talked in the past about how critical I feel app developers are to the Ubuntu convergence story. If developers can go from *idea to implementation to publishing* quickly and easily, it will make the overall Ubuntu platform more attractive and featureful for...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 30, 2013 | Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
I believe that in the entire history of Ubuntu we are at the most exciting time we have ever experienced. With Ubuntu we set out with a clear mission: to build an elegant, beautiful, Free Software platform that brings powerful, easily accessible, technology to all. We...
