Ubuntu is on an exciting journey, a journey of convergence. Our goal is to build a convergent Operating System that brings a uniformity of technology and experience across phones, tablets, desktops, and televisions, and smoothing the lines between those devices in terms of interoperability and access to content. It is a bold vision, but Ubuntu [...]
Three Point Blogging; An Experiment
I have an interesting idea I wanted to share that I am calling Three Point Blogging, and I am keen to get your input on this. Feel free to use that daintily prepared comment box, rummaging around at the bottom of this post, to share your feedback and ideas. Blogging has lost some of its [...]
Congratulations to Microsoft Open Technologies
Recently Microsoft Open Technologies celebrated their one year anniversary. I just wanted to offer my congratulations on this important milestone. Now, it could be tempting for some of you to become a little snitty about Microsoft wanting to engage more openly with people, but I believe that this project (as well as the OuterCurve Foundation; [...]
Valuable Lessons
Henry Ford, a great inspirational figure in the history of technological development once said that “when everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it”. Ford faced great technological challenges in building the Model T; a car that he wanted the average citizen to be [...]
Community Leadership Summit, Training, and Talks
I just wanted to talk about a busy week of community management and leadership related content I will be involved in in July 2013 in Portland, Oregon. Community Leadership Summit 2013 The Community Leadership Summit is the primary annual event that brings together community leaders, organizers and managers and the projects and organizations that are [...]
On Vacation
Just a quick note: I will be on vacation this week in Australia. I will be checking in with work and email, but this will be more limited throughout the week. Look forward to seeing everyone in a week! Lots of exciting things to focus on when I get back.
Smart Scopes Not Landing In 13.04, Will Land in 13.10
As some of you may know the dash team has been working to get the new smart scopes functionality in the dash ready for 13.04; this functionality delivers a far more comprehensive dash experience, performing searches over 50 or more different data sources. This feature makes the dash dramatically more useful by searching a far [...]
Introducing BBQpad
Recently I have been working on a project with my best buddy Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge, called BBQpad. I haven’t really talked much about it on my blog as we have been fixing up the rough edges, but I wanted to share a little about it now. As some of you will know, I have been [...]
More Regular, Open, and Transparent Planning
Continuing with the work to refine and improve how we build Ubuntu in an open, transparent, and collaborative way, I want to take a few minutes to discuss some work going on to improve the regularity of our planning and the benefits this brings. Traditionally planning for Ubuntu has worked like this. We ship a [...]
Recent Ubuntu Community Refinements
Our community is at the heart of how we build Ubuntu. Recently there were some concerns expressed about some aspects of our community and I have been working with various community members and internally at Canonical to resolve some of these issues to make things smoother. I just wanted to summarize some updates: Regular, transparent [...]
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