by Jono Bacon | Aug 17, 2008 | Humor
One of the fun aspects of my job has been the opportunity to travel and see the world. In the last few years I have had the chance to visit some stunning places – Brazil, Argentina, Turkey, Australia, Czech Republic, Portugal, USA, Spain, Germany, Belgium,...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 17, 2008 | Community, Speaking
I am pleased to announce that I will be keynoting at the [Ohio LinuxFest](https://www.ohiolinux.org/). I have heard great things about the show, and never been there before, so I look forward to seeing everyone there. The talk will be brand new, and I am just...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 16, 2008 | Music
I am planning to go and see Overkill on Monday night in at Islington Academy in London, but…alas…all on my lonesome. Anyone heading down to the gig? would be fun to meet any Ubuntu / LugRadio / Free Software or otherwise people there for a night of thrash...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 16, 2008 | Ubuntu
You know what, [5-A-Day](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/5-A-Day) is doing really, really well. The idea is simple – much in the same way people are encouraged to eat five portions of fruit or vegetables a day, we encourage our incredible community to work on five bugs...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 15, 2008 | Article, Community
Just got back home from attending DebConf over in Argentina. I would like to send out a big thankyou to my Debian friends for making me feel incredibly welcome. I was there with a bunch of other Canonical people – Mark Shuttleworth, Jorge Castro, Matthias...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 10, 2008 | Community
Regulars of this ‘ere blog will be familiar with my abundant love of all things *community*. In fact, this has been a long running joke in the LugRadio world where I am accused of saying *community* way too often. Guilty as charged, m’lud. To this end, the...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 9, 2008 | Community, Ubuntu
Well, this weekend the [Global Ubuntu Bugjam](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GlobalBugJam) kicks off, with Bug Jams happening all around the world including *Chile, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Perú, Puerto Rico, California, Chicago, Michigan, Michigan, Maryland, Massachusetts,...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 8, 2008 | Ubuntu
I am a lucky boy. Well, I am a lucky boy for many, many reasons, but the particularly lucky-ness I am referring to today is that I have a wicked-cool set of peeps on my team at Canonical. Regular readers of this blog will have heard me mention the other horsemen...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 8, 2008 | Article, Humor
Well, after all of the theory and contemplation of how to resolve burnout in companies, teams and communities, it seems that one link has [the complete solution](https://www.therightfoot.net/mystuff/whatever/swf/bubblewrap.swf). *Ahhhh…*
by Jono Bacon | Aug 4, 2008 | Ubuntu
[DIGG THIS STORY!](https://digg.com/linux_unix/Ubuntu_Free_Culture_Showcase) I am really excited to announce the very first **Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase**! For a long time now we have been shipping a package called *example-content* with each release of Ubuntu. This...
