by Jono Bacon | Mar 3, 2009 | Ubuntu
Everyone, just a really quick reminder that if you want to get sponsorship to the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Barcelona from the 25th – 29th May 2009, you need to get your sponsorship request filed in the next few days – the deadline is Wed 4th March 2009!...
by Jono Bacon | Mar 2, 2009 | Ubuntu
At UDS we talked about the concept of a LoCo Directory: a database with all of the LoCo Teams that we currently have [listed here](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamList). Well, we have been moving forward with the design and the always awesome Rich Johnson has been...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 25, 2009 | Ubuntu
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it is that time of the year again – it is time to start [organising your Ubuntu Release Party](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JauntyReleaseParties)! This time for our friend, Ubuntu 9.04, the Jaunty Jackalope. Every time we kick...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 24, 2009 | Ubuntu
Wow, what an incredible [Ubuntu Global Bug Jam](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GlobalBugJam) we had this weekend! Thanks to everyone who got involved. Safe to say, we not only beat the number of bugs touched last year, but we smashed it! Reports from the different events are...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 20, 2009 | Ubuntu
Hi everyone. Due to some wordpress quirks, I have announced the sponsorship process for the next UDS, but it has appeared in a post that was published yesterday. Don’t ask! For the benefit of planet readers so it doesn’t get buried in your feed, that post...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 20, 2009 | Community, Ubuntu
Alighty folks! The [Ubuntu Global Bug Jam](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GlobalBugJam) is almost upon us! From the 20th – 22nd February [Ubuntu LoCo Teams](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GlobalBugJam) from around the world get together to hammer the living daylights out of...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 19, 2009 | Random, Speaking, Ubuntu
This weekend I am heading over to Los Angeles for [SCALE](https://scale7x.socallinuxexpo.org/). In addition to [speaking](https://scale7x.socallinuxexpo.org/conference-info/speakers/jono-bacon), attending the [Ubuntu Global Bug...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 19, 2009 | Community, Ubuntu
Hot on the heels of the announcement of the Karmic Koala, I am tickled pink to announce the details of the next [Ubuntu Developer Summit](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS) taking place at Palau de Congressos de Catalunya in Barcelona in Spain from Mon 25th May – Fri...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 17, 2009 | Art Of Community, Art Of Community Entries, Community, Ubuntu
While writing a chapter on governance for the [Art Of Community](https://www.artofcommunityonline.org/), I kick off the chapter with the wonderful story of how Mike Basinger, a volunteer who has never worked for Canonical Ltd, has been able to serve on two of the most...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 17, 2009 | Community, Desktop
Am I the only one who is getting a little tired of all the bickering over version control in the GNOME community? I was under the impression that *GNOME is people*, not *GNOME is people (who argue over which way you skin a cat)*. Version control is important, and it...
