When you’re sat at the tail end of the year, a fresh and important new year for the Ubuntu project right around the corner, the impetus to look back at what’s done can seem pointless. We lived through it. Let’s move on.
But reflection doesn’t need to be a delay in moving on. It can aid the momentum. In just 12 months there has been a world of change in both Ubuntu and the wider Linux community it sits in, the projects around it, and the people — the you and I’s — who use it.