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As seen across the latest years, Canonical has successfully created links between Ubuntu and globally-scaled partners; HP, Dell, planetary-located supermarkets, banks, etc, are among the collaborations reached and powered by Ubuntu: desktop and cloud.

Presently, there are thousands and thousands of persons contributing to Ubuntu, Ubuntu-passionate users from across the world attracted by the powerful, modern and user-friendly operating system who, on a daily basis, are improving Ubuntu.

Translations, code submissions, feedback, bug fixes, ideas are forms of contributions that make, sustain and nourish Ubuntu as a collaborative OS.

At the beginning of 2013, Canonical unveiled in the open Ubuntu for phones, presenting an initial set of iterations of a polished, modern and innovative interface.

The announcement has been immediately paired with hundreds of Canonical employees and numerous and numerous community members into creating, refining and strengthening Ubuntu for phones' apps, interactions, animations, capabilities.

Launchpad is Ubuntu's official platform where the development takes place, allowing developers to add, fix and manage bugs.

The first bug on Launchpad was created by Mark Shuttleworth on August 2004, bug #1 attracting hundreds and hundreds of replies, generating a pool of sharing hopes, goals and future plans related to Ubuntu's (at that moment) future evolution.

This week, between May 21-May 22 2013, took place Ubuntu Open Week, a set of sessions conducted on IRC where Ubuntu developers answered questions addressed by Ubuntu users.

As part of Ubuntu Open Week, Mark Shuttleworth participated to the Ask Mark! session, talking about exciting Ubuntu goals and objectives, as well as revealing interesting details about upcoming Ubuntu components, such as related to:

Speed, stability and an overall fluid OS are descriptions expressed by a significant number of users related to Ubuntu 13.04, release taking Ubuntu to a more optimized and powerful experience.

Starting on Tuesday, the 14th of May 2013, the second online UDS (Ubuntu Developer Summit) is taking place for three days, official online event that gathers numerous and numerous Ubuntu developers into a serious discussion about upcoming changes, plans and development goals for Saucy Salamander.

Across the latest weeks, a common ground of numerous users' feedback related to Raring Ringtail (the development cycle) is high-performance and stability, essentially, high-quality stands on almost everybody's lips.

One of the major factors of the mentioned quality and performance is the automated testing process (and daily efforts) on increasing Ubuntu's overall performance.

Between 15-18 April 2013 there is happening the OpenStack Summit in Portland, Oregon, interesting event gathering relevant players in the cloud computing area from across the world.

Naturally, Ubuntu is represented at the summit by a solid team of developers, including Mark Shuttleworth.

Ubuntu is a project open for community participation where important, crucial decisions are presented, explained in the open, allowing interested users from across the world to express ideas, should-bes, could-bes, etc, open-communication ground on which Ubuntu flourishes.

Months ago, the developers presented in the open the rolling-release concept for Ubuntu, essentially, launching an open-for-public-feedback debate on if, how, could-bes, probably, etc, related to Ubuntu as a rolling release.

As a consequence, the development version of Ubuntu (like today's Raring Ringtail) is to become a rolling release (probably in the near future), while the support for standard Ubuntu releases have been decided to a 9 months period of time.