by Jono Bacon | Jun 8, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu
Just a quick note that I will be delivering my *Burnout: Detecting it, avoiding it, preventing it* session online tomorrow, **Thu 9th June 2011** at **11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern / 6pm UTC / 7pm / 8pm Europe**. In the session I will discuss about the different stages...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 7, 2011 | Community, Desktop, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
On Thursday 28th April 2011 we released [Ubuntu 11.04](https://www.ubuntu.com/), the *Natty Narwhal*. It was a big release for us. It was the first desktop release that shipped [Unity](https://unity.ubuntu.com/); our new desktop interface designed to bridge the chasm...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 6, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
One of the primary goals in the Ubuntu community is to encourage and inspire people to get involved in different parts of the project. Getting people involved typically requires a few key steps: * **Inspire** – Get someone interested in joining the community. *...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 5, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
Just a quickie. John. S. Gruber (I assume the S stands for *superstar*), has just kicked out a new [Lernid](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lernid) release, version `0.8.1`. John is powering his way through the bug list and getting Lernid ship-shape ready for the [six months...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 3, 2011 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
I just wanted to highlight a few awesome projects going on that are looking for help and could provide a rocking place to get involved for coders, testers, translators, docs writers and more. Of course there are many other projects that need help, but I just wanted to...
