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SeanMichaelKerner interviewed CanonicalCTOMattZimmerman and talked about how the Canonical team distributed around the world works collaboratively and what tools were used. Canonical has offices in multiple countries, but the vast majority of engineers are not in local offices. Even so, Zimmerman said, he still regularly communicates face-to-face with employees on a quarterly basis and also uses common communication tools such as IRC, wikis, and teleconference. Canonical

Sean Michael Kerner interviewed Canonical CTO Matt Zimmerman and talked about how the Canonical team distributed around the world works collaboratively and what tools were used.

Canonical has offices in multiple countries, but the vast majority of engineers are not in local offices. Even so, Zimmerman said, he still regularly communicates face-to-face with employees on a quarterly basis and also uses common communication tools such as IRC, wikis, and teleconference. Canonical engineers also use open-source Gobby tools to coordinate editing and use Mumble for voice chat. Zimmerman said that Mumble is similar to the IRC speech version. Launchpad provides basic project management support for Canonical.