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For many years now we have been building a comprehensive Ubuntu contributor community. Across our many different sub-communities such as Packagers, Translators, LoCo Teams, Forums, AskUbuntu, Documentation Writers, Ubuntu Women, QA, Accessability, and elsewhere, we have worked hard to help everyone put their brick in the wall to help Ubuntu be the best it can [...]

Just a quick note. As some of you know I play in a metal band called Severed Fifth that releases it’s music under a Creative Commons license. You can listen to and download our album Liberate and here. Feel free to share it with your friends! Well, on the Saturday night before UDS kicks off [...]

As we pull into the final stretch of the Ubuntu 12.04 release cycle all hands are on deck to ensure the quality of 12.04 is perfect. Fortunately this is something that everyone can help with to help us find bugs before we release. We need to ensure we get total coverage of our different ISO [...]

Back from a wonderful few weeks vacation in Italy and I am catching up with Ubuntu Accomplishments. Today I merged in various contributions and things are looking in great shape. An important change that I merged in was support to run the Ubuntu Accomplishments back-end service as a twistd daemon service (thanks to Duncan McGreggor!). [...]

A little while back I created the following video that outlines many of the technologies available in Unity that your apps can neatly integrate with:

I want to show you something rather beautiful: He is the most interesting terminal in the world. Behind this simple exterior beats the heart of a beast; the new Ubuntu Accomplishments server that verifies all those lovely accomplishments that are achieved using the system. Recently I was a bit of a pickle regarding what to [...]

One important part of the Ubuntu Accomplishments design is that any project or community can provide accomplishments. From the beginning I have been building the Ubuntu Community Accomplishments set to demo the system, but I am keen to encourage other projects to do so, such as upstreams, distributions, and other communities. Recently Alessandro Losavio from [...]

Over the last week the interest in Ubuntu Accomplishments has been growing more and more. Thanks to everyone who has expressed interest in playing with it and participating. To show you folks what the system looks like at the moment, and show some of these improvements, I have created another quick video demo to show [...]

Last night I posted a call for a web designer to help design the accomplishment information inside the app. Fortunately, Brandon Holtsclaw responded and sent over some CSS and HTML that was ready for me when I woke up. It now looks like this: Shiny! Thanks to Brandon for this work! I also really liked [...]

As part of Ubuntu Accomplishments you can read information about each accomplishment to find out more about how to participate. This is an important piece of the system: being able to provide useful, discoverable information to our community. It looks a little like this: The goal is to create in-depth help and guidance for a [...]