by Jono Bacon | Feb 24, 2010 | Opportunistic Developers, Ubuntu, Uncategorized
I just wanted to summarize some fun *opportunistic developer* things going on over the next few weeks. all of these events provide a great opportunity to get started having fun making awesome apps that you can share with others. ## Presenting The Opportunistic...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 23, 2010 | Opportunistic Developers, Ubuntu
On **Wednesday 24th Feb at 11am / 2pm EST / 7pm UTC/GMT** I will be giving the talk that I delivered this past weekend at SCALE in LA in which I talk about the work going on in the Ubuntu community to embrace *Opportunistic Developers* in writing awesome free software...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 23, 2010 | Ubuntu
Two awesome new features that the Ubuntu Software Center recently got in Lucid: * **Featured Category** – there is a special top-level category for highly recommended applications that we don’t have room for on the disc. This includes the GIMP and Abiword...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 15, 2010 | Opportunistic Developers, Ubuntu
A few awesome opportunistic developer updates: * Firstly, I have been adding some parties every day during [Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpportunisticDeveloperWeek). These include a couple of hacking parties in which you should...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 15, 2010 | Shot Of Jaq
In the continued mission to inspire and encourage opportunistic developers to write cool little apps that scratch an itch, no matter how specific and niche, I have started work on *App Of Jaq*: a desktop app that scratches my itch to build the [Shot Of...