by Jono Bacon | Jan 22, 2011 | Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu
A few weeks back I [wrote about my desire to make Ubuntu feel more personal](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/2011/01/07/making-ubuntu-more-personal/) for new and existing contributors. The goal here is to help community members to have a fulfilling experience in...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 18, 2011 | Canonical, Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu
[Mark](https://www.markshuttleworth.com/) recently [blogged](https://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/568) about plans to make [Qt](https://qt.nokia.com/products/) a first-class citizen alongside GTK in Ubuntu. He outlined the reason for the plan in the opening few...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 7, 2011 | Community, Planet GNOME, Ubuntu
Community is a *deeply personal* experience. While *write* communities such as Open Source get together to make things (as opposed to *read* communities who consume content together), the attraction and thrill is only partially in the collaboration. What really makes...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 3, 2011 | Community, Ubuntu
So here I am, and it is the night before I go back to work for my first day back in 2011. I have had some wonderful and frankly much needed time off work. Towards the end of 2010 I was pretty bushed and was ready to spend some time with my wife and family, my guitar,...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 3, 2011 | Community, Planet GNOME, Severed Fifth
We have an absolutely rocking development platform in the Ubuntu, GNOME, KDE and Linux and world. Today I was chatting to some of the [Severed Fifth](https://www.severedfifth.com/) Street Team folks and we were talking about how awesome a Severed Fifth Desktop App...