--- title: This week in design – 5 November 2010 description: We’re back! Phew! What a fortnight! Did you miss us? We all got back from Orlando, Florida this week and prepared to kick off the Natty development cycle in style. UDS-N was a great event and big thanks should go to Jono, Jorge, the Canonical admin and technical teams and everyone who attended sessions, took […] url: https://canonical.com/blog/this-week-in-design-5-november-2010?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. 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Work email: \*I agree to receive information about Canonical's products and services. By submitting this form, I confirm that I have read and agree to [Canonical's Privacy Policy](https://canonical.com/legal/data-privacy). Sign up We’re back! Phew! What a fortnight! Did you miss us? We all got back from Orlando, Florida this week and prepared to kick off the Natty development cycle in style. UDS-N was a great event and big thanks should go to Jono, Jorge, the Canonical admin and technical teams and everyone who attended sessions, took notes and participated. I took a lot of [photos](http://www.flickr.com/photos/iain/sets/72157625109270761/) and I know others did too so go check them out as well as catch up on the [planet](https://canonical.com/blog/planet.ubuntu.com) to see what people talked about while they were there and now they’ve recovered from the jet lag! Now our attention turns to other things. Natty is only 6 short months away. The [Natty release schedule is up on the wiki](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyReleaseSchedule) and we’ve started development and design work. The big news was obviously the move to Unity on the desktop and Mark has been [blogging about other changes](http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/551) that will come to your favourite Linux desktop in April 2011. Oh and finally I saw something exciting today to do with Ubuntu and robots! The Qbo project uses Ubuntu as the base for their development distro and they’ve released their first alpha. Charline, Otto and I sorta love robots and are secretly hoping that by talking about these guys they’ll send us our very own personal open source robot 😉 Check out their [blog post](http://thecorpora.com/blog/?p=335) and [video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uie-8qMRd8&feature=player_embedded). #### Related posts --- [Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/author/canonical) 25 August 2026 ### [Arduino® VENTUNO™ Q is available for pre-order with Ubuntu pre-installed](https://canonical.com/blog/arduino-ventuno-q-is-available-for-pre-order-with-ubuntu-pre-installed) Canonical announcements Ubuntu tech blog London, UK – August 25, 2026 – Following our initial collaboration announcement in March 2026, Canonical and Arduino (a subsidiary of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.) are excited to announce that VENTUNO Q is now generally available for pre-order, pre-loaded with Ubuntu. 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