On one hand we would like to take all the feedback and give people what they want, and on the other we are looking out several years and trying to out-pace the market and competition. We love feedback anything to make Ubuntu better, so keep those suggestions coming.īuilding innovative products is a challenge. How much has this feedback affected or changed plans for 11.10 and beyond? What changed, and why? The switch to Unity in Ubuntu 11.04 was dramatic and attracted a lot of attention. The best part of my day is waking up, syncing to latest and seeing all the changes made while I was sleeping. Obviously the biggest challenge is distributed communication, but even that has benefits. The Ubuntu community is even more diverse. Canonical employs people from about 50 different countries. The Desktop Team alone has people from England, France, Germany, Spain, Canada, United States, Australia and New Zealand. Have you found working with a variety of people from all backgrounds rewarding, or difficult? But those are all good and healthy things that, as long as people approach each other with respect, make our product and community better. As with any large base of people, motivations will differ, people will butt heads and ideas will clash.
My first introduction to the community as Desktop Manager was with Mark announcing Unity! It is challenging and interesting, sometimes frustrating, but always rewarding work.īeing new to Canonical, how are you finding working for a company that has such a large and vocal community? We work closely with upstreams, community projects, corporations and internal Canonical teams to ensure everything will come together. We have the unique responsibility to see how everything will eventually become Ubuntu. This involves a bit of advocacy, guidance, saying “no” and guarding what makes Ubuntu, Ubuntu. My role, along with the team’s, is to make sure we release the best Ubuntu we can every six months. This team (I can’t name them all, though I really, really want to…they rock!) are the people who pull all the various bits together that end up being “Ubuntu”. The Desktop Manager is the lucky person who gets to manage the desktop team inside Canonical. When not perpetually plugged into a laptop, Jason enjoys writing, weight lifting and cycling.Ĭould you describe briefly what you do in your role as Desktop Manager? Always an advocate for Linux, when the chance to work on Ubuntu opened up, Jason felt a calling to work on the most popular Linux distribution of all time.
Jason grew up on the web building large scale web infrastructures and applications as well as the teams that built them. Originally from the US, Jason now lives just outside Adelaide, Australia with his wife, son and daughter (3 years and 6 months). Whilst we had a good chat about Unity and the future of Ubuntu over a beer, its only now have I gotten around to formally interviewing him for OMG! Ubuntu! I first met Ubuntu’s new Desktop Manager Jason Warner at in Brisbane earlier this year.
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