Author Archives: Daniel Holbach

Who are your mentors?

Jorge and Allison blogged about their mentors and start into the Open Source world and I thought it would be a great way to thank at least some of the people who helped me get started. So I started thinking … Continue reading

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Holidays

Tuesday next week is my last working day and I’ll be gone for three weeks, without laptop. If you have anything really urgent, talk to any members of my team, Michael or Ara, they know how to get in touch … Continue reading

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What I do

In the first weeks when I started contributing to the Ubuntu community about six years ago, I was constantly amazed at a number of things: how friendly, encouraging and motivating people were: in a very short time I made lots … Continue reading

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Ubuntu Berlin Jam

If you have followed my blog and what I’ve said elsewhere you might have noticed, I’m TOTALLY looking forward to the Ubuntu Global Jam. The Ubuntu Berlinians will meet in Berlin’s c-base on 29th August from 12:00 to 18:00. Please … Continue reading

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Next weekend: Ubuntu Global Jam

If you haven’t registered your Ubuntu Global Jam event yet, do it now! As you all know loads of teams around the globe meet this weekend and do great Ubuntu and Open Source work together. Ubuntu Jams are all about … Continue reading

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Ubuntu Global Jam… state of things.

Guess who has all registered for the fun already: Berkeley, California, USA Birmingham, UK Novosibirsk, Russia Cape Town, South Africa Caldes de Montbui, Spain Dublin, Ireland Saudi Arabia Managua, Nicaragua Lots of other teams are discussing their events right now. … Continue reading

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Awesome work others have done

I wanted to follow up on Jorge’s great blog post for a longer while already. He said: Lately I think we’ve gotten in a collective funk of “here’s what I think about this.” followed by “Oh yeah, well here’s what I … Continue reading

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Hugs For Bugs!

Next Ubuntu Bug Day will be all about Operation Cleansweep, which as you all know deals with reviewing patches and forwarding them to our Upstream partner projects. Make sure you join #ubuntu-reviews and #ubuntu-bugs on next Thursday (2010-08-12). It will … Continue reading

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Ubuntu Global Jam… slowly getting there

I’m SO looking forward to the Ubuntu Global Jam. Up until now we have 4 events registered: Berkeley, California, USA Dublin, Ireland Saudi Arabia Caldes de Montbui, Catalonia, Spain and I talked to a number of people already who are … Continue reading

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Berlin

Earlier today I went to a goodbye party of a friend who’s going to Australia for a few months. Great things that happened: Party was outdoors, a few DJs played, great atmosphere, 100+ people at peak times Some of my … Continue reading

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