by Jono Bacon | Dec 17, 2009 | Community, Ubuntu
As many of you will know, I manage the Ubuntu Community Team at Canonical, which has horsemen Holbach, Castro and Planella in it. A large chunk of my job is to take into account the wide range of needs from our different stakeholders (community teams, Canonical teams,...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 17, 2009 | Desktop, Ubuntu
I am really excited to see [Ted’s post](https://gould.cx/ted/blog/Having_a_tidy_systray) regarding some of the improvements coming to the desktop notification area. This part of our desktop has become something of a wild west – icons look ugly, are spaced...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 16, 2009 | Art Of Community
Just a quick post to outline two recent articles that are online: * [Communitizing the community with community tools](https://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=28330&tag=col1;post-28330) -thanks to my friends over at ZDNet for publishing this for me. This is an overview of...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 15, 2009 | Ubuntu
Tonight I had an idea I wanted to run past Ubuntu community folks. I think it could be fun to have an *Ubuntu Community Hackfest*. In it we would pick two days and devote them to hacking on software projects that are community-related. This could include existing...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 14, 2009 | Community
I just had another article published on ZDNet. This one is called [Community Meetings: Rock Not Ramble](https://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=28260&tag=col1;post-28260) and talks about how to get the most out of online discussion meetings. It begins: > At the heart of...