by Jono Bacon | Jun 24, 2009 | Ubuntu
Just a quick note to you lovely folks that the [Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFreeCultureShowcase), a competition to have your audio, video or imagery included on millions of Ubuntu systems, has it’s deadline drawing near on *16th...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 24, 2009 | Ubuntu
Recently we announced to epic [Ubuntu Global Jam](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam) that is set to go down from **2nd – 4th Oct 2009**. In this event hundreds of Ubuntu fans and contributors get together in their local area to work on Ubuntu, get to know...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 16, 2009 | Ubuntu
In the last few cycles we have organized and run an event called the *Ubuntu Global Bug Jam*. The idea was simple: encourage our awesome global Ubuntu community to get together in the same room to find, triage and fix bugs. And they did, all over the world, as can be...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 15, 2009 | Art Of Community, Article, Community
Recently I have been sending the completed [Art Of Community](https://www.artofcommunityonline.org/) manuscript out to a number of people who are well respected in various communities to get there feedback on the completed book. Some of these quotes are...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 13, 2009 | Advocacy, Art Of Community, Art Of Community Entries, Community, Free Culture, Speaking
A while back I [announced](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/2009/04/12/community-leadership-summit-2009/) the [Community Leadership Summit 2009](https://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/) in San Jose on the 18th and 19th July 2009. Well, I think it is time for...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 13, 2009 | Free Culture, Ubuntu
Folks, we are back with another [Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFreeCultureShowcase)! The Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase is an opportunity to bring the best of two great worlds together by showing off high quality Free Culture content in...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 10, 2009 | Community
Recently I have been pointing my beady eye at the topic of *burnout*. My interest was originally sparked while researching content for [The Art of Community](https://www.artofcommunityonline.org/), but I have also had something of a personal interest in it as I myself...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 9, 2009 | Art Of Community, Ubuntu
Oi oi folks. Well, hasn’t it been a while? It seems I have been on a little blogging hiatus recently, and I think the simple reason is that [I have been writing a lot more than usual recently](https://artofcommunityonline.org/) so my blogging tendencies have...
by Jono Bacon | May 8, 2009 | Art Of Community, Article
As some of you will know, I have been writing a book in recent months called [The Art Of Community](https://www.artofcommunityonline.org/) to be published by [O’Reilly](https://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596156718/index.html). The book covers a wide range of topics...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 22, 2009 | Community, Ubuntu
I just wanted to let you all know about an interesting project kicking off in the form of [Ayatana](https://launchpad.net/ayatana). Ayatana is the term that refers to the collection of user interface, design and interaction projects started by Canonical....
