Written in qt, it is designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers, but the original goal of convergence was intended to bring ubuntu touch to laptops, desktops, iot devices, tvs and smart watches for a complete. Using ubuntu on the desktop the official ubuntu book. The phone team were setting the end of may as a goal for getting the phone into this daily driver state, and they have delivered most of. Consequently, when he recently published his thoughts on building and managing communities, people listen. Importantly, i am here for the ubuntu community as someone to consult with with any community related issues. I am jono bacon, ubuntu community manager, community management authorspeaker, and podcaster ama. I understand from jono bacons blog that ubuntu will be switching to unity as the default desktop in the upcoming 11. Jono bacon is a leading community and collaboration strategy consultant, speaker, and author.
Top 5 reasons the ubuntu linux phone might make it. Ubuntu community manager jono bacon discusses ubuntu phone and where the development is headed. Over the last few days ive talked with canonical founder mark shuttleworth and ubuntus community manager jono bacon at. Many expressed delight with the new technologies introduced lately by canonical, while others expressed disappointment with some. For more about the ubuntu edge and how to pledge, see. Ubuntus jono bacon talks opensource community management. I am also the author of the art of community and founder of the community leadership summit. The demo shows recieving a call and text, web browser, social networking integration, multitasting, a number of the apps, messaging menu, and. Jono bacon is a writer and software engineer, originally from the united kingdom, but now based in california. Top 5 reasons the ubuntu linux phone might make it zdnet. Youve probably heard jono bacon speak at a linux or open source conference. Slack will be purchased by either microsoft, webex cisco or zoom. How does the ubuntu community manage to make distributed team collaboration work while keeping all of the important stakeholders happy. This is the culmination of an extensive period of work, and pushing ubuntu another step further in building a consistent, elegant, beautiful operating system and experience across the desktop, cloud, and devices.
Compare it to the 3d reconstruction above, you wont spot many differences. Community manager jono bacon is scheduled to talk about ubuntu unification at xda. We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes. Ubuntu page 3 of 8 on xdadevelopers xda developers. Back in 20, jono bacon, then canonicals ubuntu linux community manager, told me the companys goal was to create smartphones that. In this new presentation bacon shares the behindthescenes view of how the company grew, faced new challenges and opportunities, and handled crises and. I am jono bacon, ubuntu community manager, community.
Canonical wants more apps for the ubuntu smartphone. Ive heard from many people, jono bacon included, that its impossible to say how many computers are running ubuntu since there is nothing in the os that phones home, and the ubuntu census package is only installed on oem machines sold with ubuntu. If youve been paying attention to the latest ubuntu developments. When i spoke to jono bacon, ubuntus community manager in january. Community manager jono bacon to talk ubuntu unification at xda.
Interview with canonicals jono bacon interview unixmen. Jono bacon, the senior director of community for xprize and former manager of the ubuntu community, likes to ask questions that explore a. Ideally we want any user who looks at a download page on an application website to see this. The art of community available for free download 65. Since the ubuntu phone announcement, ubuntu is on track to become a convergent os, using the same codebase for all devices, from desktops, servers and clouds, to phones and even smaller form factors with the arrival of snappy, a flavor of ubuntu dedicated to internet things, such as your connected fridge or autonomous drone. Bacon added though that ubuntu for phone wont be using same. Why doesnt canonical use pings from the update manager to. More unusually, as i found out in a recent interview, when people like me critique his book, he listens, too, with a view to improving the. The target market is equipment manufacturers who can use it to run both highend and entrylevel devices. A conversation with ubuntus jono bacon video slashdot.
Ubuntu touch phone not expected until 2015 ubergizmo. The official ubuntu book, third edition by benjamin mako hill, corey burger, jonathan jesse, jono bacon get the official ubuntu book, third edition now with oreilly online learning. Rebase ubuntu touch on android, says former ubuntu. Today i recorded a video demo of ubuntu running on the galaxy nexus and showcasing much of the progress in may to turn the phone into a usable daily phone for early testers. The team has worked their socks off to build a convergent user interface, toolkit, and full sdk. Impressive sales of an ubuntupowered phone would act as irresistible bait to other oems and isvs, leading to renewed interest, application support and, most tantalisingly of all, the potential for further handsets. Canonicals ubuntu community manager jono bacon shows of progress of ubuntu touch ubuntus interface for mobile devices.
This phone home count is important since the marketshare of an os is based on the number of. Jono bacon, the community manager for canonicals ubuntu linux, believes in opensource software, but even more, he believes in the ability. Speaking on his weekly youtube show, bacon told viewers that thepositive forward momentum going on with a number of different oems and carriers will result in more than one device being released during the next twelve months. Stuart langridge, jono bacon, and jeremy garcia present bad voltage, in which what will happen in 2020 is laid out for your consideration with perfect precision. Progress is ontrack for the end of may i decided to start dogfooding a little early please remember, we are shooting for the beginning of july to be. Jono bacon spent eight years at canonical as the ubuntu community manager and was one of the most public representatives of ubuntu. I raised my curiosity and ubuntus rockstar community manager jono bacon responded.
Currently there are no handset manufacturers or telcos committed to shipping ubuntu touch on real world hardware, but so far canonicalubuntu are sticking to their prediction that ubuntu phones will be available. True, ubuntu on the phone has many obstacles in its way, but it also has many. I lead a team of five community managers to grow the global ubuntu community. As many of you will know, our goal is to get the ubuntu phone in a state where it can be used on a daily basis for testing, and importantly, finding bugs, ui issues, and other details that help us to refine the overall ubuntu touch experience. In depth canonical is putting a lot of faith in its dream of convergence that is, one os to control every device you own. This book will tell you about the ubuntu project, about installing it, running it through its. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover jonos. One of the more interesting conversations tim lord had at ces this year was with ubuntu community manager jono bacon, who was showing off the ubuntu phone that is supposed to be released later this year. Although many people were there to see ubuntu for phones, the phone is really only one part of the true magic of ubuntu s focus and direction. Download for ubuntu button campaign 54 ask me anything 6. View jono bacons profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Former canonical employee jono bacon has suggest that ubuntu phone should ditch debian to become an android fork but is he right.
The former community manager for canonical, jono bacon, notes in a very interesting article that it would be a good idea to rebase ubuntu on android and be done with it. He is the founder of jono bacon consulting, which provides community and. In this interview with ubuntus community manager, jono bacon discusses common challenges faced by distributed it teams, while providing tips and techniques on how to keep developers motivated and managers and other stakeholders involved. The latest highend ubuntu phone will be available globally zdnet.
Ubuntu is a complete, free operating system that emphasizes community, support, and ease of use. There is a lot of curiosity about this phone and very less information available. The ubuntu software center is our primary mechanism for this, but we also know that users browse application and upstream websites and will often look at their download pages to find an ubuntu download. He works at the mit media lab and on the one laptop per child project. Benjamin mako hill serves on ubuntus community council governance board, which helps advise the ubuntu foundation. I am doing an ama on reddit on wed 6th june at 11am pacific, and my username is jonobacon i am jono bacon and i work as the ubuntu community manager at canonical. So what do hiring managers want out of a candidate skilled in all things ubuntu.
Porting ubuntu touch to the oneplus one was the first collaborative project for the ubports community in 2015, and is one of the most popular ubuntu touch devices to this day. Video a conversation with ubuntus jono bacon video 53. The device was chosen because of its open software stack and active development community. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number.
Then, of course, theres jono bacon, our own community manager and hes the only person lucky enough to make a video with the ubuntu edge prototype itself. The phone exposes an exciting new concept, scopes, that while intriguing in their current form, after some refinement which the team are already working on could redefine how we use devices and access. Dont expect ubuntu phones from major oems before 2015. Ubuntu phone on fp1, similar hardware as the aquaris e4. Dont expect ubuntu phones from major oems before 2015, says jono bacon.
Canonicals new ubuntu mobile os isnt yet available as a package download to anyone interested in trying it out, but it holds great promise. As the ucm i am here to help the ubuntu community tick along, ensure teams can work together easily, help build loco teams, work with upstream communities and more. Much has been said about the last ubuntu versions and canonicals strategies. For the past three years, jono bacon has worked as community manager for ubuntu, one of the largest and most diverse projects in open source software. A while back i blogged about dogfooding ubuntu phone. According to the ubuntu website, it delivers a magical phone that is faster to run, faster to u. Late last year the company revealed that it had signed up a new hardware partner, which is supposedly a big name manufacturer, it was said that the first ubuntu phone will be released in 2014. If canonical community manager jono bacon is right, then the smartphone might not debut until next year. The coming year will see a number of ubuntu phones hitting the market, says canonical community manager jono bacon. Community manager jono bacon to talk ubuntu unification at. Stuart langridge, jono bacon, and jeremy garcia present bad voltage, in which a tenth of a point is more important than one might think it is, mother shipton is turning in her grave, and. Jono bacon, ubuntu community manager, was formerly an open source consultant in the united kingdom. Ubuntu touch also known as ubuntu phone is a mobile version of the ubuntu operating system, being developed by the ubports community. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the official ubuntu book.
I am jono bacon, and i work for canonical as the ubuntu community manager ucm. In a later article, jono bacon explains that ubuntu phone os comes with the same technology available in ubuntu for android. Jono bacon full name jonathan edward james bacon is a writer and software engineer, originally from the united kingdom, but now based in california. Fortunately, ubuntu seemed to be one of the highlights at ces. My early experience 44 getting the ubuntu advocacy kit to 1. The official ubuntu book hill, benjamin mako, bacon, jono, burger, corey, jesse, jonathan, krstic, ivan on. Bacon started his work with the linux community when he created the linux. The design and implementation of the phone is beautiful. Sign up for your own profile on github, the best place to host code, manage projects, and build software alongside 40 million developers. Judging from the prototype of ubuntu phone, this comment is a slight exaggeration, because modifications must be made for some form factors. While none are available yet, samsung has promised galaxy nexus owners therell soon be a test package for them to download.
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