Category Archives: Community

Google Code-In Wrap-up

By lyz | Published: 2016-02-10

As you may have already heard, Google announced the winners for GCI 2015, including those from ubuntu. Overall, we had a total of 215 students finish more than 500 tasks for ubuntu! The students made contributions to documentation, created wallpapers and other art, fixed Unity 7 issues, hacked on the core apps for the phone, […]

New Ubuntu Flavours download page

By lyz | Published: 2016-02-09

Last year the Community Council heard from some of you that you wanted your flavour to be more easily discovered on the download page of ubuntu.com. Since then we have worked with Canonical’s design team to produce a design and content for that page. I am pleased to tell you that it has now been […]

Ubuntu Online Summit: 3-5 May 2016

By lyz | Published: 2016-02-03

[T]he next Ubuntu Online Summit is going to be from 3rd – 5th May 2016, which is going to two weeks after 16.04 release. Summit and related pages will be updated in due time. Originally posted to the community-announce mailing list on Wed Feb 3 10:07:47 UTC 2016 by Daniel Holbach

Your donations at work [Q2 2015]

By lyz | Published: 2015-11-13

I’ve just published the most recent Community Donations Report highlighting where donations made to the Ubuntu community have been used by members of that community to promote and improve Ubuntu. In this report I’ve included links to write-ups detailing how those funds were put to use. Over the past two years these donations have allowed […]

Community Council election [2015]

By lyz | Published: 2015-11-11

[A]ll Ubuntu members are electing a new Community Council in the next two weeks. I started setting up the election in CIVS and will invite all eligible voters to it in a bit, so you all should receive an email about it. If you are an Ubuntu member, please also make sure you check your […]