by Jono Bacon | Jun 26, 2012 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
Last week the [Ubuntu App Showdown Contest](http://developer.ubuntu.com/showdown/) kicked off; a competition in which you lovely people have three weeks to create an awesome app that wows the judges on *functionality, presentation/integration, innovation, usefulness*,...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 6, 2012 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
Applications, delivering awesome apps to our users, and making it easy for developers to create and deliver their apps, is going to be critical to success of Ubuntu. Fortunately there is a lot of work going on in this area, more of which I will elaborate on later this...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 6, 2012 | Canonical, Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
Just a quick note: today I did a Reddit Ask Me Anything, and there were a lot of questions that I answered that cover a range of different topics. You can [read it all...
by Jono Bacon | May 31, 2012 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
I have something rather cool to show you: This is a screenshot of [Ubuntu Accomplishments](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accomplishments) with support for [Ask Ubuntu](http://askubuntu.com/) badges. This means that when you get an Ask Ubuntu badge, you will see a...
by Jono Bacon | May 31, 2012 | Community, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
We are delighted to announce that the [Humble Indie Bundle](http://www.humblebundle.com/?utm_source=ubuntu), that was just announced will have all the games available in the [Ubuntu Software Center](http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/features/ubuntu-software-centre) running...
by Jono Bacon | May 28, 2012 | Community, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
*Before we get started, I want to offer all of my American friends a thoughtful Memorial Day (I was going to say ‘happy’ memorial day, but there is nothing particularly ‘happy’ about the meaning behind the day). I hope you all have a nice day...