by Jono Bacon | Sep 5, 2008 | Humor
Congratulations to the FSF for managing to get the legendary Stephen Fry to [celebrate the anniversary of GNU](https://www.gnu.org/fry/). I am just somewhat surprised they decided to license it under a non-free license (Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 4, 2008 | Ubuntu
Two years ago today [I came to work at Canonical](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/?p=737) as the Ubuntu Community Manager. When I started at Canonical, it was just me working with Mark to define my role and focus and to determine what I wanted to do to help grow...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 3, 2008 | Humor
Wow. Everyone loves Buzzword Bingo, but sometimes it gets a tad ridiculous. Back in July I got a gem via email. It started off with this zinger of an opener (*identities censored to protect the innocent*): > Program Focuses On Helping The Open Source Ecosystem Grow...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 1, 2008 | Ubuntu
Just a quick reminder to all budding music and video artists that the [Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFreeCultureShowcase) closes for submissions on Thursday 4th Sep – get your entries in there now to have your work seen by literally...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 29, 2008 | Random, Severed Fifth
Just wanted to provide a quick update on life – things have been absolutely *crazy* recently. Literally, a-grade *crazy*. There are some fairly hefty changes going on in my life right now, and this combined with nearly two months of solid travelling, finishing...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 27, 2008 | Humor
[419 Eater](https://www.419eater.com/) always amuses me – it is a website scam-baiters follow through with those Nigerian scam emails. Today though I read a case where someone manages to persuade the scammer to tattoo *Baited By Shiver* on his leg. [Read it...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 27, 2008 | Ubuntu
[DIGG THIS!](https://digg.com/linux_unix/Second_Ubuntu_Developer_Week_announced) I am really pleased to see that Horseman Holbach has [announced](https://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=189) [Ubuntu Developer Week](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek). 🙂 Ubuntu...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 25, 2008 | Ubuntu
The unstoppable Matt ‘mdz’ Zimmerman has caved in and now has a [blog](https://mdzlog.wordpress.com/). He has posted some interesting stuff already, so go and check it out. He is also on [Planet Ubuntu](https://planet.ubuntu.com/).
by Jono Bacon | Aug 24, 2008 | Music
Fellow horseman, Jorge, and I are both big [Metallica](https://www.metallica.com/) fans. Although we largely agree on what constitutes a great Metallica album (*Master Of Puppets* and *…And Justice For All*), Metallica have seen such a diverse change in their...
