People and culture

Aaryan Porwal
16 June 2024

Pair Programming: The Ubuntu Way

Article People and culture

At our core, we believe in Ubuntu: “I am what I am because of who we all are.” This philosophy of interconnectedness is woven into everything we do, including how we approach software development. This belief in our interconnectedness extends to how we build software. Pair programming, a practice where two developers...

Aaryan Porwal
16 June 2024

Bill Wear
18 October 2023

The soul of open source

Article People and culture

The power of community-backed open source: a Canonical perspective The open-source advantage Open-source software offers unparalleled freedom to use, modify, and distribute code. But freedom comes with responsibilities, often making it challenging for businesses and organisations to manage and support these...

Bill Wear
18 October 2023

Daniele Procida
17 October 2023

Canonical at DjangoCon Africa

Events Community

DjangoCon Africa (Zanzibar, 6-11 November 2023) takes place for the very first time this year: a pan-African DjangoCon to join the family of DjangoCons that take place in Europe, the USA and Australia each year. Canonical will be sponsoring the conference, and we’ll be there with talks and workshops. Open-source...

Daniele Procida
17 October 2023

Bill Wear
16 October 2023

A call for community

Article Cloud and server

Introduction Open source projects are a testament to the possibilities of collective action. From small libraries to large-scale systems, these projects rely on the volunteer efforts of communities to evolve, improve, and sustain. The principles behind successful open source projects resonate deeply with the...

Bill Wear
16 October 2023

Daniele Procida
9 August 2023

Not just an annoying list of questions

Article People and culture

Imagine if – as a job applicant – you could put yourself right in front of the hiring lead, and tell them, in your own words, in your own time, without interruption or distraction or pressure, why you think you’d be an excellent person for the role. What kind of applicant would benefit the most?

Daniele Procida
9 August 2023

Teodora Mihoc
28 October 2022

Humans may be rational, or how to collect better documentation feedback with linguistic theory

Article People and culture

Anyone who has ever built a product wants user feedback – and we in open source want it more than anyone else, and place higher demands on it than anyone else. However, this feedback can be hard to give, hard to receive, and hard to act upon. My product is open source software documentation, and

Teodora Mihoc
28 October 2022

Hanna Neuborn
25 October 2022

How we hire at Canonical

Article People and culture

Hiring in a global remote first organisation is complex and takes considerable effort to create a truly fair and consistent process. Assessing talent from a large, globally remote talent pool means that we need to do things a little differently. Hear our CEO, Mark Shuttleworth and Global Head of Talent Science, Hanna...

Hanna Neuborn
25 October 2022

Bill Wear
20 October 2022

Join our Ubuntu circle

Article Canonical announcements

The Ubuntu circle: We are because you are The MAAS 3.3 Beta 1 release is out. You should take a look. Normally, a blog like this would wait for the final release. And that blog will still happen, later, but this feels like a watershed moment: There are some significant new features, including better search

Bill Wear
20 October 2022

Daniele Procida
5 October 2022

Engineering transformation through documentation

Article People and culture

To help bring our ambitious documentation plans to fruition, we’re going to be hiring people to work in documentation – over the next couple of years, we’ll be increasing the number of Technical Authors at Canonical four-fold. This isn’t about documentation alone. If documentation is part of a product, and documentation...

Daniele Procida
5 October 2022

Bill Wear
28 July 2022

Compassionate doc

Article People and culture

Being the best open-source company in the world means building the best open-source documentation. That’s means giving appropriate respect for ownership and prior art. We crave your feedback about how to best make that happen.

Bill Wear
28 July 2022

Michael C. Jaeger
11 February 2022

A Charming community: how to join the Juju and Charmed Operators community

Article Cloud and server

If you are familiar with open source, you know that the community is what drives a project and gives its purpose, keeps it alive and thriving. So, it is important to support that community, and provide tools and encouragement to help it grow. Today, we would highlight the community behind Juju and Charmed Operators and

Michael C. Jaeger
11 February 2022

Hanna Neuborn
11 February 2022

Canonical: a world leader in remote first working

Article People and culture

Over the last two years much of the Global workforce has experienced remote working first-hand. Sound familiar? For many, this was a ‘career first’, changing their views on the effectiveness of remote working. The desire to be office based has reduced dramatically with people wanting to avoid time-consuming commutes. In...

Hanna Neuborn
11 February 2022

Daniele Procida
25 January 2022

The idea of a tutorial

Article Community

Sooner or later, almost everyone who looks at some software that they or their team have created imagines a user getting to grips with it, and a pang of empathy for that unknown person prompts them to think: what we need here is a tutorial. And they are always absolutely right. In the Diátaxis documentation

Daniele Procida
25 January 2022

Daniele Procida
15 December 2021

Diátaxis, a new foundation for Canonical documentation

Article Community

Our on-going documentation transformation project aims to make our documentation the best it can possibly be – an exemplar of excellence for the industry. We’re working on four distinct pillars of documentation to achieve this. The first of these pillars is direction. It defines what is quality in documentation, and...

Daniele Procida
15 December 2021

People and culture

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