Community Leadership Summit 2009 Retrospective

Community Leadership Summit 2009 Retrospective

*This blog entry is a little delayed after a crazy week of the Community Leadership Summit, then OSCON, then a weekend away for some much needed decompressing*. Last weekend the very first [Community Leadership Summit](https://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/)...
Launchpad is now Open Source

Launchpad is now Open Source

I just want to offer my congratulations to the [Launchpad](https://www.launchpad.net/) team for their excellent efforts in Open Sourcing the whole project. I would also encourage everyone to pass on their thanks to Mark Shuttleworth for this incredible gift to the...
Learning To Listen

Learning To Listen

One of the attributes in the Free Software, Open Source and Free Culture world that I am most proud of is the seeming openness and accessibility in the patch-work of communities that form this inspiring landscape. Every day we hear wonderful stories of people joining...
Icon Theme Hacking Progress

Icon Theme Hacking Progress

Quick update on my icon hacking. I have now figured out a way to get most of my notification icons to have broadly the right color. It used to look like this: Now it looks like this: To do this I first copied my *Human* icon, edited `theme.index` to change the name of...
Desktop Theming and Icons

Desktop Theming and Icons

For some time now there has been a general move over to darker themes in GNOME-land. I have tried a bunch of themes here and there but I have always moved back to the default Ubuntu theme: I always found the dark theme less usable and harder to look at in my day to...