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Ubuntu is about people

Ubuntu has been around for just over a decade. That's a long time for a project built around a field that evolves at such a rapid pace as computing. And not just any computing –software made for (and by) human beings, who have also inevitably grown and evolved with Ubuntu.

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The Ubuntu Online Summit starts next week

Starting on Tuesday 3rd to Thursday 5th of November, a new edition of the Ubuntu Online Summit is taking place next week. Three days of free and live content all around Ubuntu and Open Source: discussions, tutorials, demos, presentations and Q+As for anyone to get in touch with the

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Announcing the UbuCon Summit

I am thrilled to announce the UbuCon Summit, taking place in Pasadena, California, from the 21st to 22nd of January 2016, hosted at SCaLE and with Mark Shuttleworth on the opening keynote.

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Announcing the next Ubuntu Online Summit

The 15.04 release frenzy over, but the next big event in the Ubuntu calendar is just around the corner. In about a week, from the 5th to 7th of May, the next edition of the Ubuntu Online Summit is taking off. Three days of sessions for developers, designers, advocates,

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The Ubuntu Community Donations Program in review

Nearly two years ago, the Ubuntu Community Donations Program was created as the framework behind the donations page on the Ubuntu site. Time to look back, listen and adjust. With the Ubuntu Community Donations Program those individuals who download Ubuntu for free can choose to support the project financially with

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The Ubuntu Scope Showdown - progress showcase

Over a week ago, we announced the Ubuntu Scope Showdown: a competition to write a scope for Ubuntu on phones in 5 weeks and win exciting prizes. Scopes are Ubuntu's innovative take at revolutionizing the content and services experience. For users, they provide quick and intuitive access to content without

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A new era for the Ubuntu community team, or business as usual

After the recent news of Jono Bacon stepping down as the Ubuntu Community Manager to seek new challenges at XPRIZE, a new era in Ubuntu begins.

App Development

Internationalizing your apps at the Ubuntu App Developer Week

As part of the Ubuntu App Developer Week, I just ran a live on-air session on how to internationalize your Ubuntu apps. Some of the participants on the live chat asked me if I could share the slides somewhere online. So here they are for your viewing pleasure :) If you've

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Escola d'aplicacions Ubuntu a Barcelona

Ubuntu, el sistema operatiu lliure més popular i innovador en núvols computacionals, en servidors i en milions d'ordinadors personals, entra al món dels dispositius mòbils.

Core Apps

The Ubuntu Core Apps Hack Days are back!

Get started contributing to the Ubuntu phone by learning from fellow hackers

App Development

Announcing the first Ubuntu App Dev Schools

Following the call for volunteers to organize App Dev Schools across the globe, we're excited to say that there are already events planned in 3 different countries. Every single App Dev School will help growing our community of app developers and drive adoption of our favourite free OS on all

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A quickstart guide to the Ubuntu phone emulator

Following the initial announcement, the Ubuntu emulator is going to become a primary Engineering platform for development. Quoting Alexander Sack, when ready, the goal is to [...] start using the emulator for everything you usually would do on the phone. We really want to make the emulator a class A engineering

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Make Ubuntu speak your language

It's going to be one of the most exciting years in the history of Ubuntu. We're seeing innovation across the board, with a huge momentum and interest from OEMs and carriers to ship a phone with Ubuntu, with already a confirmed partner.

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Ubuntu Reminders app gets Evernote authentication

We've been making good progress with Reminders, the Ubuntu app powered by Evernote. While our team of developers have been busy working on the UI, a set of other equally awesome individuals have been working in parallel to implement the backend pieces. Today, I'm thrilled to announce that the Evernote

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Empowering LoCo teams at UDS

With Ubuntu now running across all form factors and devices and entering the mobile space, a new era begins. The challenge While our values remain the same, we've now faced with a unique opportunity to drive adoption of our favourite Free Software OS to a user base that could potentially

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Upcoming Qreator release - call for translations

We're preparing a new release of Qreator, the QR code creator for Ubuntu, to be published in the next few days. This release adds a few new strings and quite a bunch of new features, including a new design, new QR codes, and the ability to edit the QR codes

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Join the Ubuntu Community Docs Jam today

It's Community Docs Jam today! We want to fix the www.ubuntu.com/community page to better represent our community, and who better than our community to help providing that content? So come along today, pick an area you're interested in and give us a hand adding content. Join the

App Development

Heads up to all Ubuntu App Showdown participants

After reading the Ubuntu App Showdown subreddit, getting a few pings on G+ and IRC, it seems there are some showdown participants concerned about whether their app made it on time for the contest. So here's a quick heads up: don't worry, if your app was submitted to MyApps on

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Upcoming Ubuntu Open Week session - how to contribute translating Ubuntu

Just a heads up that in about 50 minutes, and as part of the Ubuntu Open Week, I'll be talking again, this time about how to contribute translating Ubuntu. So if you're either interested in learning how to do it, or if you want to ask any questions, join me

App Development

Upcoming Ubuntu Open Week session - submitting your apps to the Software Centre

Just a heads up that in about 15 minutes, and as part of the Ubuntu Open Week, I'll be talking about how to submit apps to the Software Centre. So if you're either interested in learning how to do it, or if you want to ask any questions, join me

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Get the Ubuntu Online Tour on your LoCo site

I'm thrilled to announce the availability of the Ubuntu 12.04 Online Tour for local community teams to localize and use on their websites. The tour has been the result of the stunning work done by Ant Dillon from the Canonical Web Design Team and should provide a web-based first

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Ubuntu Global Jam events: jamming Catalan style

If you follow the Ubuntu channels, and unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll have noticed that this coming weekend we’re organizing the Ubuntu Global Jam, a worldwide event where Ubuntu local community teams (LoCos) join in a get-together fest to have some fun while improving

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Upcoming Ubuntu Global Jam events: here's how the Slovenian team rolls

Unless you've been living under a rock, you'll have noticed that this coming weekend we're organizing the Ubuntu Global Jam, a worldwide event where Ubuntu local community teams (LoCos) join in a get-together fest to have some fun while improving Ubuntu. As we're ramping up to a Long Term Support

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Ubuntu Global Jam Q+A Videocasts today!

In preparation for the Ubuntu Global Jam event next weekend, Jono and I will be running Q+A videocasts today Jono's videocast will be more convenient for the Americas and in the evening in Europe: 11am Pacific / 7pm UTC/UK / 8pm CET – watch live here! My videocast coming up in

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Ubuntu Precise Open for Translation

I am pleased to announce that our current development release, Ubuntu Precise, is now open for translation Some additional information that will be useful for translators: Translation schedule. Remember that according to the release schedule translatable messages might be subject to change until the User Interface Freeze on the week