by Jono Bacon | Jul 29, 2009 | Community, Ubuntu
Tonight I spent some time fiddling with the rather awesome VirtualBox to get a Karmic instance up and a Kubuntu machine up and running. I managed to get a rather nice set up going and I just wanted to quickly share my experience. This is a little rough and ready and I...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 29, 2009 | Community, Speaking
Recently I have delivering a presentation about the 12-stages of burnout at a few conferences and it seems to have been really useful to people. The presentation talks through the progressively worse stages and how to identify the symptoms and protect against them...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 27, 2009 | Community
Folks, go and take a look at [Linux Against Poverty](https://linuxagainstpoverty.org/). Ken Starks recently got in touch with my colleague Robbie Wlliamson, who then passed this on to me and I wanted to raise some awareness. If you are anywhere near Austin, go and...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 27, 2009 | Community
*This blog entry is a little delayed after a crazy week of the Community Leadership Summit, then OSCON, then a weekend away for some much needed decompressing*. Last weekend the very first [Community Leadership Summit](https://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/)...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 21, 2009 | Community, Ubuntu
I just want to offer my congratulations to the [Launchpad](https://www.launchpad.net/) team for their excellent efforts in Open Sourcing the whole project. I would also encourage everyone to pass on their thanks to Mark Shuttleworth for this incredible gift to the...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 15, 2009 | Community
One of the attributes in the Free Software, Open Source and Free Culture world that I am most proud of is the seeming openness and accessibility in the patch-work of communities that form this inspiring landscape. Every day we hear wonderful stories of people joining...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 12, 2009 | Desktop, Ubuntu
Quick update on my icon hacking. I have now figured out a way to get most of my notification icons to have broadly the right color. It used to look like this: Now it looks like this: To do this I first copied my *Human* icon, edited `theme.index` to change the name of...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 11, 2009 | Desktop, Ubuntu
For some time now there has been a general move over to darker themes in GNOME-land. I have tried a bunch of themes here and there but I have always moved back to the default Ubuntu theme: I always found the dark theme less usable and harder to look at in my day to...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 27, 2009 | Ubuntu
Recently [Melissa wrote a post](https://www.geekosophical.net/?p=273) about how we track problems with community, and how she feels that blogging about community problems is a reasonable approach. As part of her post she says: > Blogging about problems we see in our...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 25, 2009 | Community
In a world where most companies would give their hind teeth to get your email address into their marketing database, it was refreshing to see this from [VMWare](https://vmware.com/): > Thank you for your past interest in VMware. As part of our routine scheduled...
