Lucid Community Team Plans

Lucid Community Team Plans

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,...
Application Indicators In Python

Application Indicators In Python

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...
Two New Articles

Two New Articles

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...
Ubuntu Community Hack Fest

Ubuntu Community Hack Fest

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...
Ubuntu Community Hack Fest

Community Meetings: Rock Not Ramble

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...