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A sneak peek inside Ubuntu Skunkworks
The Ubuntu Skunkworks program is now officially underway, we have some projects already staffed and running, and others where I am gathering final details about the work that needs to be done. Today I decided to look at who has … Continue reading
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Tagged canonical, community, experiment, skunkworks, ubuntu, upstream, work
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Quickly: Rebooted
Shortly after the Ubuntu App Showdown earlier this year, Didier Roche and Michael Terry kicked off a series of discussions about a ground-up re-write of Quickly. Not only would this fix many of the complications app developers experienced during the … Continue reading
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Tagged application-development, apps, canonical, community, experiment, FOSS, python, quickly, ubuntu, uds, work
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Welcome to the Skunk Works
A few weeks ago, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth announced a new project initiative dubbed “skunk works”, that would bring talented and trusted members of the Ubuntu community into what were previously Canonical-only development teams working on some of the most … Continue reading
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Tagged canonical, community, experiment, skunkworks, ubuntu, unity, upstream, work
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Singlet 0.3 adds Unity Previews
When the Unity developers introduced Dash Previews in Unity 6, I knew it was something I wanted to add to Singlet. I didn’t have time to get the feature added in time to get it into Quantal’s Universe archive, but … Continue reading
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Tagged canonical, community, python, singlet, ubuntu, unity, work
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Six geeks, one sleepless night, and £5133.70 for charity
Well, we did it. The six members of the Canonical Community Team stayed awake and (mostly) online for 24 straight hours, all for your entertainment and generous donations. A lot of people gave a lot over the last week, both … Continue reading
Looking for a few good devs
More than a few, actually. As part of our ongoing focus on App Developers, and helping them get their apps into the Ubuntu Software Center, we need to keep the Application Review Board (ARB) staffed and vibrant. Now that the … Continue reading
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Tagged application-development, apps, canonical, community, FOSS, packaging, ubuntu, upstream, work
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How the AppDevUploadProcess was written
For the past several week, David Planella, Jono Bacon and I have been drafting a spec that proposes a radically different approach to getting desktop applications into the Ubuntu Software Center. Now, there’s nothing that annoys me more than somebody … Continue reading
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Tagged application-development, apps, canonical, community, FOSS, ubuntu, upstream, work
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My App Developer Showdown Entry
As you’ve probably heard already, Ubuntu is running an App Developer Showdown competition where contestants have three weeks to build an Ubuntu app from scratch. The rules are simple: It has to be new code, it has to run on … Continue reading
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Tagged apps, canonical, community, FOSS, quickly, ubuntu, unity, upstream, work
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Why you should ‘Download for Ubuntu’
Last week we introduced a new ‘Download for Ubuntu’ campaign for upstreams to use on their websites, letting their users know that the app is available in Ubuntu already. We event generated a list of targeted upstreams we wanted to reach … Continue reading
Bring on the apps
It’s no secret anymore, we want apps in Ubuntu. Big app, small apps, shiny apps, cute apps, apps that play a catchy tune while avian avengers explode porcine poachers. You name it, we want it in Ubuntu. And we need … Continue reading