by Jono Bacon | Apr 20, 2009 | Ubuntu
Ladies and gents, this week is a big week for Ubuntu. As we build toward the release of **Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope** on Thursday April 23rd 2009, final preparations are being put in place. While there is much going on right now I just wanted to focus your...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 19, 2009 | Advocacy, Art Of Community, Art Of Community Entries, Community, Free Culture, Severed Fifth
A few weeks back I had the pleasure of doing an interview on the rather excellent [FLOSSWeekly](https://twit.tv/floss65) podcast with Leo Laporte and Randal Schwartz. On it I talk Community, [Ubuntu](https://www.ubuntu.com/), [Art Of...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 14, 2009 | Advocacy, Art Of Community, Art Of Community Entries, Community, Speaking, Ubuntu
Quick note: tomorrow (Wed 15th April) at 11am Pacific I will be doing my first real live video cast [here](https://www.ustream.tv/channel/at-home-with-jono-bacon) discussing various topics including [Ubuntu](https://www.ubuntu.com/), the Jaunty release, [Art Of...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 12, 2009 | Art Of Community, Art Of Community Entries, Community, Free Culture, Speaking, Ubuntu
Just a quick message to let you all know that today I announced the [Community Leadership Summit 2009](https://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/) on the **18th and 19th July 2009** in San Jose, California. The event takes place the weekend before...
by Jono Bacon | Mar 30, 2009 | Ubuntu
Ladies and Gents, I am tickled pink to announce the latest horseman to join my team at [Canonical](https://www.canonical.com/). His name is David Planella and he will be our new *Ubuntu Translations Coordinator*. He will join Daniel Holbach and Jorge Castro on the...
by Jono Bacon | Mar 26, 2009 | Art Of Community, Art Of Community Entries, Article, Community
Recently the tubes have been ablaze with chatter of where the somewhat popular topic of *community management* should fit into an organisation. When the coin is flipped, said chatterers have been debating whether to place their bets on either *Marketing* and...
by Jono Bacon | Mar 24, 2009 | Ubuntu
Good news, friends. From today [Canonical](https://www.canonical.com/) is contributing a new benefit to Ubuntu Membership: a complimentary subscription to the rather glorious [Linux Weekly News](https://lwn.net/). Our friends in Debian have been doing this for a...
by Jono Bacon | Mar 24, 2009 | Ubuntu
Ladies and Gents, I am pleased to announce the results of the Ubuntu 9.04 [Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFreeCultureShowcase). This is the competition in which creative types can submit their work for inclusion in the `Examples/` folder...
by Jono Bacon | Mar 20, 2009 | Ubuntu
One of the facilities that has been hugely popular in the Ubuntu community has been [Ubuntu Brainstorm](https://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/). With Brainstorm you can register ideas and features for the Ubuntu project and others can vote those ideas up or down. There are...
by Jono Bacon | Mar 19, 2009 | Community, Speaking, Ubuntu
Working like an animal right now, hence little in the way of blogging. I am microblogging where I can though on [my Twitter](https://twitter.com/jonobacon) and [my identi.ca](https://identi.ca/jonobacon) feeds (using the excellent Gwibber). Some real quick links...
