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Can We Appropriate Design?
By Canonical, 13 January 2011
’Appropriation’ – the taking of a product and using it for one’s own purposes, in ways unintended by the product creators – is implicitly at the core of the...
Bright, light and beautiful!
By Canonical, 13 January 2011
That’s what we want the Ubuntu desktops in Natty to feel like. We’re changing things a little bit for the coming release too. We’ll still feature some...
Hebrew and Arabic on track
By Canonical, 4 January 2011
Although I haven’t posted much recently we have still been working away. Besides the latest update to Version 0.7 of the core fonts, which posed some...
Canonical and the Ubuntu project say Happy Holidays with the Ubuntu Font Family released for the web
By Canonical, 21 December 2010
Google and the Ubuntu project have today released the Ubuntu Font Family to the world through the Google Font Directory.Through the magic of the Google Font...
Design Museum exhibition London
By Marcus Haslam, 20 December 2010
Something exciting next year Bruno Maag from Dalton Maag has been asked by the Design Museum London to put on an exhibition of his work. This is a...
Skalica City Hall reduces costs by 70 per cent with Ubuntu
By admin, 16 December 2010
Landscape systems management simplifies maintenance Summary Based in Slovakia, the Skalica City Hall IT team must provide a reliable and easy-to-use desktop...
Ubuntu helps KnowledgeTree build client base and reduce costs
By Canonical, 16 December 2010
Innovative cloud solution serves 200 times the clients for a quarter of the cost Summary KnowledgeTree wanted to introduce a Software as a Service (SaaS)...
Surveying contributions
By Canonical, 14 December 2010
If you have ever contributed to an open source project or wish you had got round to it then please can you fill in this survey?...
Certification of HP Desktops
By Canonical, 10 December 2010
The well-earned accolade that it ‘just works’ is one of the reasons that Ubuntu has been propelled to the position of the most widely shipped and installed...
Thanks and good luck to Matt Asay
By Jane Silber, 8 December 2010
Matt Asay joined Canonical in February this year and quickly proved instrumental in aligning strategic goals and operational activities. Unfortunately for us,...
Looking at Ubuntu Brainstorm: Idea #25801
By Canonical, 8 December 2010
The Ubuntu Technical Board is currently conducting a review of the top ten Brainstorm issues users have raised about Ubuntu, and Matt asked me to investigate...