The Ubuntu Global Jam is an online and in person event that takes place all across the world. People get together with the interest of making Ubuntu better, while having a good time socializing with other people near you who have the same interest and passion about Ubuntu as you do.

*Full Circle Magazine – Issue #33* Full Circle – /the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community are proud to announce the release of our thirty-third issue./

The UCLP is attempting to make professional education course materials, because we believe that education is one of the biggest barriers to getting new users and increasing existing users abilities.

A recent post at ubuntufurums has posted a survey which asks users to vote on a survey. The survey asks for choices of software which should be available in Ubuntu by default.

Greetings; The Ubuntu User Days Team would like to announce the first Ubuntu User Day, on January 23, 2010. This will be a very informative one day session geared towards beginner and intermediate Ubuntu users, as well as people who are interested in using Ubuntu.

Since joining the group well over a year ago, and having become an active member, I’ve seen it grow both in numbers and in an unmeasurable way where we help newcomers join and get active within the larger Ubuntu community.

*Full Circle Magazine – Issue #32*
Full Circle – /the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community
are proud to announce the release of our thirty-second issue./

At this past Ubuntu Developer Summit in Dallas, the idea was brought up to create a “beginners day,” similar to Open Week, teaching new Ubuntu users the basics of using Ubuntu.

Many many thanks to everyone who has donated to the Ubuntu @ Anime Boston campaign so far. It hasn’t taken us long at all to surpass our first primary target of $700 and guarantee the Ubuntu Massachusetts LoCo Team’s presence at the event

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. Consequently, when he recently published his thoughts on building and managing communities, people listen

I have been advocating for Ubuntu for over a year now and in that time I have organized several LoCo events at area tech conferences. In the course of doing this I have learned a few things and this post is a collection of thoughts about how to improve community efforts to advocate for Ubuntu.

Daniel Holbach just posted this on his blog. As a member of the Ubuntu Regional Membership Board for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, I thought I would share his comments and help him out a bit.

Recently Ubuntu celebrated it’s five-year anniversary. Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala” marks five years since the initial release, 4.10 “Warty Warthog”.

The Ubuntu Server Team wants to know how you use Ubuntu Server in day-to-day operations to help the team prioritize the support and development of future Ubuntu Server Editions.

Can Ubuntu reach over 16,000 anime lovers in April? Of course it can, with the support of the rapidly expanding super mega-awesome community (that’s you all)! Anime Boston returns for 2010 on April 2-4 and the Ubuntu Massachusetts Local Community Team has some ambitious plans.

The major topic was ratifying revisions to the Ubuntu Code of Conduct, version 1.1. The rationale behind the changes can be found here and the full text of the revised Code of Conduct is here.

Most people (over 90%) want to see technical news about Ubuntu. Most people also want to see other areas of the Ubuntu community though. Though it’s worth noting how unwanted Local Community news is to everything else, is the community online not involved with their Local Community team?

Thanks to all Ubuntu members who participated in the CC ballot, which
was completed today. The new community council takes office immediately,and (in alphabetical order) comprises:

I believe that Ubuntu 10.10 could be a great place to focus on a feature-heavy release (having solved all it’s stability and performance issues in 10.04, of course :p). So here you have it – 10 feature requests that I (and many others) would love to see by the time Ubuntu 10.10 rolls around.

After much work, and many delayed meetings, the Danish podcast team finally released their first episode yesterday. It is all in Danish, so you properly won’t be able to make much of it, if you don’t speak Danish, but it is a good episode, and hopefully is the first of a long line of fabulous [...]

Thankfully for Ubuntu users who need a bit of help, there is a wealth of knowledge easily available. Beginning with the installed help files, you can also turn to the wiki, the Ubuntu forums and, lastly, the greater Internet.

As part of the community dialogue over what should be in the next version, “Lifehacker”, a website about getting things done, has come up with a wish list for the free operating system, and Ubuntu has responded.

The Linux distribution’s community manager, Jono Bacon, wrote a thoughtful, informative response, which also details and links what’s being done on a few of the fronts we considered crucial.

_This month:_ * Command and Conquer * How-To : Program in Python – Part 2, LAMP Server – Part 1, Networking with SSHFS and Fast Internet With Squid.* My Story – My Linux Experience I and II…and much more

Here’s an interview with Jono Bacon, the Ubuntu Community Manager who also leads a small team at Canonical to grow and enable the Ubuntu community.

I’m hoping for a long and happy life for Ubuntu User magazine and I think it’s something we’ve needed for some time now.