by Jono Bacon | Aug 17, 2010 | Advocacy, Community
[Debian](https://www.debian.org/) 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...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 10, 2010 | Ubuntu
*Cornellà , Spain* *Chicago, USA* Are you good folks aware of what is happening on **27th – 29th August 2010**. But of course, it is the [Ubuntu Global Jam](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam)! In the last few cycles we have organized and run an event...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 7, 2010 | Ubuntu
Today I had a great call Penelope Stowe who has been leading some excellent efforts with the [Ubuntu Accessibility Team](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility) in conjunction with the (quite literally) always rocking Luke ‘The Muso’ Yelavich. The reason...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 6, 2010 | Community, Ubuntu
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...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 5, 2010 | Ubuntu
Once again we have some wonderful free books to give away from Prentice Hall, the rather spanky-awesome publishers of [The Official Ubuntu Book](https://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0137021208) by Mako, Matthew Helmke and Corey Burger, and the brand new...