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Rest Well, My Friend
Posted on September 1, 2010 - · Reader Comments (1)
It was with great sadness that I read earlier that my friend and colleague Ian Clatworthy passed away after his fight with cancer. Although I never knew Ian that well, whenever I did work and spend time with him I always found him to be a fun, light-hearted, and always pleasant person to be around.
Words escape me.
You will be missed, my friend. Rest, well.
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Posted on August 20, 2010 - · Reader Comments (14)
On Visibility And Change
OK, before I begin, this is going to be a terribly presented ramble. I have written it, proof read it, and proof read it again, and it still sounds like a child with a crayon wrote it. This is because my thoughts are unstructured, but I am keen to share them anyway. Patience is appreciated, [...]
Posted on August 17, 2010 - · Reader Comments (6)
Thankyou, Debian
Debian is awesome. You know that, I know that, we all know that, and 17 years ago Debian entered into our lives. Before I joined the Ubuntu project I was an avid Debian user, and still am. Ubuntu owes a huge amount of thanks to Debian and it’s global family of contributors for all of [...]
Posted on August 10, 2010 - · Reader Comments (2)
Ubuntu Global Jam: We Need Your Events!
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Are you good folks aware of what is happening on 27th – 29th August 2010. But of course, it is the Ubuntu Global Jam!
In the last few cycles we have organized and run an event called the Ubuntu Global Jam. The idea was simple: encourage our awesome global Ubuntu community to get [...]
Posted on August 7, 2010 - · Reader Comments (4)
Making Ubuntu More Accessible
Today I had a great call Penelope Stowe who has been leading some excellent efforts with the Ubuntu Accessibility Team in conjunction with the (quite literally) always rocking Luke ‘The Muso’ Yelavich.
The reason for the call was simple: I felt like I didn’t have enough knowledge or visibility of the Ubuntu Accessibility Team and accessibility [...]
Posted on August 6, 2010 - · Reader Comments (1)
Request For Candidates: Application Review Board
In Belgium at the last Ubuntu Developer Summit, we had a fantastic set of discussions about how we could create a process that empowers application developers to bring their applications into the Ubuntu Software Center much easier. Today our developer and packaging processes are more designed for a contributor who wishes to contribute to the [...]
Posted on August 5, 2010 - · Reader Comments (0)
Free Books For Approved LoCo Teams
Once again we have some wonderful free books to give away from Prentice Hall, the rather spanky-awesome publishers of The Official Ubuntu Book by Mako, Matthew Helmke and Corey Burger, and the brand new Official Ubuntu Server Book by our friend and yours, Kyle Rankin and Mako. These books were commissioned by Debra Williams-Cauley who [...]
Posted on August 4, 2010 - · Reader Comments (2)
At Home With Jono Bacon
Just a quick FYI: tomorrow (Wed 4th Aug) 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:
CALL FOR EVENTS: Ubuntu Global Jam HOWTO: Team Reporting LoCo Council Q+A
I hope to see you all there at the live recording!
Posted on August 2, 2010 - · Reader Comments (0)
Ubuntu Global Jam: We Need Your Events!
Are you good folks aware of what is happening on 27th – 29th August 2010. But of course, it is the Ubuntu Global Jam!
In the last few cycles we have organized and run an event called the Ubuntu Global Jam. The idea was simple: encourage our awesome global Ubuntu community to get together in the [...]
Posted on August 2, 2010 - · Reader Comments (2)
Severed Fifth Update
Hi folks, back again for a quick update on my Free Culture music project, Severed Fifth. As before, I just want to share a bunch of links to interesting things that are going on.
To kick off with, I put a few short videos on the Severed Fifth YouTube Channel from yesterday’s rehearsal. These are the [...]
Posted on July 30, 2010 - · Reader Comments (1)
Fixing Ubuntu Software Center Descriptions
The Ubuntu Software Center is making some rocking progress, but as everyone’s favorite Dr Vish suggests, it is only a container for other content, and we need to fix and improve the descriptions of apps inside Ubuntu to make it easier for users.
This is a wonderful contribution to Ubuntu. Want to get involved? Simple, check [...]
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Failure as a Springboard to Success
Those lovely people at ZDNet have let me write a guest post about community, and I have contributed an article called Failure as a springboard to success.
The article talks about how if we embrace our failures in our communities, it can help us become better community members, and provides a model for doing so. This [...]
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Announcing Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: The Lucid Lynx
With Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 6 now out the door and momentum building towards a rocking Karmic Koala release, it is time to name and share the direction and focus for the next step in the Ubuntu evolution that follows Karmic.
To do this I want to pass on some words from Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of [...]
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Reporting Ubuntu Community Problems
Recently I have been thinking a lot about how we can refine and improve how we report problems and issues in the Ubuntu community. I shared some thoughts about this a little while back and I have been talking with many people inside the Ubuntu community, at the Community Leadership Summit, and with our Community [...]
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Change For Change
Today I have a little story followed by an idea that I want to share with you all.
A few weeks back I stepped out to go and grab a coffee. I headed over to my local independent coffee shop where I get on well with the owners. Like many small businesses, they have been struggling [...]
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On Validation
Today I just wanted to share a few thoughts on a much under-used and sometimes overlooked component in growing great communities: validation.
Every community is an organically grouped bundle of people, many of which spend their free time choosing to be part of that community. With the majority of communities being associative volunteer-based groups, our contributors [...]
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