by Jono Bacon | May 16, 2013 | Community, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
A while back I started a project called the [Ubuntu Advocacy Kit](https://www.launchpad.net/uak/). The goal is simple: create a single downloadable kit that provides all the information and materials you need to go out and help advocate Ubuntu and our flavors to...
by Jono Bacon | May 16, 2013 | Community, Ubuntu
Recently the Technical Board [made a decision to sunset Brainstorm](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TechnicalBoard/TeamReports/13/May), the site we have been using for some time to capture a list of what folks would like to see fixed and improved in Ubuntu. Although the site...
by Jono Bacon | May 14, 2013 | Community, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
Hot on the heels of [my last post](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/2013/05/14/video-demo-of-unity-next-on-mir/) showing Unity 8 running on Mir on a Macbook Pro Retina, there were some folks who were curious about how well Unity and Mir work on a phone. Well, thanks...
by Jono Bacon | May 14, 2013 | Community, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
Recently the [Mir](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir) and [Unity Next](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnityNextSpec) teams got Unity 8 up and running on Mir. Now, this work is still very early in development and neither Mir nor Unity Next are finished yet, but I reached out to...
by Jono Bacon | May 14, 2013 | Community, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
As a pretty simple-minded person, I am a big fan of simplicity. The world is filled with too much complexity and too much detail. Many often feel the detail is necessary for particular outcomes or to solve particular problems. The lesson I have learned as I have...