Berkeley, California
Community manager, author and speaker.
Areas of Expertise:
- Linux
- Ubuntu
- open source
- KDE
- consulting
- speaking
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February 08 2012
Today I had a call with another team at Canonical who were wanting to ask for guidance on (a) how to write good blog entries that people want to read and (b) how to regularly get into the habit of blogging and get more eyeballs on your posts. I thought… read moreCanonical Community Team Meeting – 7th Feb 2012
February 07 2012
Minutes are available here. read moreUbuntu Global Jam: Call For Events!
February 07 2012
Ubuntu Global Jam: Call For Events! From 2nd – 4th March 2012 we will be running the Ubuntu Global Jam. This is a global event in which we ask Ubuntu users and contributors to organize events in their local areas to meet other Ubuntu people and help contribute to Ubuntu.… read moreCanonical Community Team Google+ Hangout
February 06 2012
On Friday we had the first Google+ Hangout with the full Canonical Community team. To observe this important moment we all showed how happy we were: Sponsored by Colgate. L-R: Daniel Holbach, David Planella, Yours Truly, Jorge Castro, Michael Hall, and Nicholas Skaggs. Google Hangouts are awesome for team meetings. read moreFebruary 01 2012
Today (1st Feb 2012) I will be doing my live Ubuntu Q+A session at 12pm Pacific / 3pm Eastern / 8pm UK / 9pm Europe. You can join the videocast here (anyone can view, but if you want to ask a question you should register an account with ustream.tv first).… read moreJanuary 31 2012
A new Unity has been pushed into the Unity team’s PPA and we need testers to help give it a run for it’s money before it is accepted into Precise. Nick has all the details of how to participate in the testing right here. You will need to be running… read moreSevered Fifth Release Party this Friday in San Francisco
January 31 2012
Can’t see the video? Watch it here. Just a quick note to let you know that this Friday, 3rd February in San Francisco we will be having the Severed Fifth CD Release Party. The new album ‘Liberate’ was funded by donations from the Severed Fifth community and will be released… read moreMore Ubuntu Accomplishments Hacking
January 29 2012
I spent some more time this weekend hacking on the Ubuntu Accomplishments spec I blogged about recently. I just wanted to provide a little more eye-candy of some of the progress. When you load the app it shows you a list of the available opportunities you can achieve: (obviously a… read moreJanuary 28 2012
After my recent blog post about the lack of Python GTK documentation since the new era of GIR bindings, I was delighted to find this awesome online documentation. I am certainly not presuming that this documentation was as a result of someone reading my blog post; I assume I didn’t… read moreJanuary 27 2012
I just wanted to provide a quick update on how the team is doing on our set of commitments in the 12.04 cycle. Feel free to ask questions in the comments. In terms of general team progress, this is how our burndown chart looks today: I asked each of the… read moreUbuntu Developer Summit Sponsorship Now Open
January 27 2012
The Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) is the most important event in the Ubuntu calendar. It is where we get together to discuss, design, and plan the next version of Ubuntu; in this case the Ubuntu 12.10 release. The next UDS takes place at The Oakland Marriott City Center, Oakland, California,… read moreThe Art of Community 2nd Edition Update
January 25 2012
I just wanted to provide a quick update about the second edition of The Art of Community and the progress that is being made. After a fast and furious month of writing and editing, the two new chapters (Managing and Tracking Work and Social Media) are now completed. I have… read moreJanuary 24 2012
Today we announced the HUD that is landing in Unity. This is an awesome new feature. See Mark’s blog post, the coverage on PC Pro, and the interview with John Lea on OMG! Ubuntu!. Here is a video of the feature in action: Can’t see it? See it here. I… read moreJanuary 24 2012
I am a pretty terrible programmer. Anyone who has read my code can see that. Unfortunately, I tend to have lots of ideas about how we can use technology in different ways, hence why I write some code. Examples of this have included Lernid, Acire, RaccoonShow, and Jokosher. Fortunately (or… read moreJanuary 23 2012
A little while back I mentioned that Nicholas Skaggs would be joining the Community Team at Canonical. Nick is now on board but is not an Ubuntu Member yet, so his blog is not appearing on Planet Ubuntu. On his blog he will be talking about improving our QA infrastructure… read moreJanuary 22 2012
A little while back I blogged about an accomplishments system that Stuart Langridge and I designed when he came to visit a while back. The idea was simple: a de-centralized system in which we can easily define different types of accomplishments (e.g. filing a bug, submitting a patch, getting a… read moreJanuary 21 2012
A week ago I flew to Budapest for an Ubuntu Engineering Team Rally. This is where we get the Ubuntu Engineers at Canonical and some other groups together for a week to work together, plan future work, have meetings and make progress on our existing commitments. It is in this… read moreJanuary 13 2012
Like many of you I get a lot of email, and like many of you I often struggle to keep up with it in the context of everything else that is going on. Recently I have been trying a few little experiments in adjusting my email workflow to see if… read moreJanuary 12 2012
The always awesome didrocks posted yesterday to encourage the testing of the Unity PPA. In this cycle we have changed how Unity is deployed into Ubuntu by required a set of acceptance criteria tests before it enters the archive. As such, much of the testing of the new Unity releases… read moreJanuary 11 2012
Be sure to follow Ubuntu TV on Facebook and on Google+. That is all. read moreXubuntu, Kubuntu, and Edubuntu LTS
January 10 2012
I was delighted to read this morning that the Ubuntu Technical Board has approved Xubuntu and Kubuntu to be LTS versions, as well as Edubuntu based on some further discussion. You can read the meeting log here. Congrats to the Xubuntu, Kubuntu, and Edubuntu communities! read moreThe long road toward the Community Leadership Summit
June 01 2011
Community development is an organic process full of unique experiences and turns. So it should be no surprise the Community Leadership Summit followed a similar path. read moreThe long road toward the Community Leadership Summit
June 01 2011
Community development is an organic process full of unique experiences and turns. So it should be no surprise the Community Leadership Summit followed a similar path. read moreCan open source reinvent the music business?
January 18 2011
Chart success would be nice, but Severed Fifth has a loftier goal than most bands. They want to use hallmarks of the open source movement — specifically, community involvement and free distribution — to change the music business. read moreCan open source reinvent the music business?
January 18 2011
Chart success would be nice, but Severed Fifth has a loftier goal than most bands. They want to use hallmarks of the open source movement — specifically, community involvement and free distribution — to change the music business. read moreThe Increasing Importance of Community
April 30 2006
Community is a tough science, and one that cannot be boxed and put on a shelf. With the advent of Ubuntu, OpenSuSE, Fedora and Freespire, is community playing an increasing role in Open Source, and if so, how is the community and economics of Open Source changing? read moreRecent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts
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