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Just a quick FYI: tomorrow I will be hosting my weekly At Home with Jono Bacon videocast at 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern / 6pm UTC and I will be covering the following topics: Ubuntu Developer Summit update Ubuntu Global Jam Retrospective Ubuntu Open Week / Ubuntu LoCo Learning Days LoCo Council Elections kicking off [...]

Recently I blogged about how we are keen to improve patch review in Ubuntu in the 10.10 cycle. Today we are in a position where we have a large collection of fantastic contributions that need reviewing, even if that review feedback is that the patch no longer applies and needs work. I believe part of [...]

Today Andy Breiner submitted a new Python snippet that demonstrates the use of the os module and Regular Expressions and looks at all the snippets in the Python Snippets library and counts how many people have submitted snippets. This is a great way of seeing how many people are contributing to the project. Well, I [...]

As I mentioned last week, I am now doing my At Home With Jono Bacon videocast in a regular weekly slot at 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern / 6pm UTC. In every show I provide a Q+A section but I am keen to cover tutorial topics and overviews of key elements involved in Ubuntu and [...]

I am currently jamming with the always awesome Ubuntu California team in Berkeley. Want to pop along? Check out the details and join us!

I am proud to announce the release of Acire 0.4! This release includes the following new features Documentation Links – many snippets now include links to relavent documentation links, and these are shown right within the Acire interface and just a click away. Alphabetized Lists – the list of categories in Acire and the list [...]

Like Rodrigo, my Facebook account has been disabled for some strange reason too. So, if you want to talk to me on Facebook, you probably won’t see me there. My pal Matt Nuzum said that I am vanished from his friends list, as if I don’t even exist. That, my friends, is weird. I have [...]

With the goal of Acire and Python Snippets seeking to serve multiple distributions, it seemed appropriate to give it it’s own website. Thanks to the wonderful people over at wordpress.com for making my fave CMS available as a free hosted service, we now have our new website! This was a result of a few hours [...]

This is another article in a series of posts where I will be outlining some of the goals for my team for the Ubuntu 10.10 cycle which I am in the process of planning for. Ubuntu has always had a strong commitment to ensuring that it is available in everyone’s local language. We have seen [...]

If this makes no sense, listen to the first five seconds of this. (from Jorge)