Jono Bacon

http://twitter.com/jonobacon

Berkeley, California

Community manager, author and speaker.

Areas of Expertise:

  • Linux
  • Ubuntu
  • open source
  • KDE
  • consulting
  • speaking
Jono Bacon is an award-winning leading community manager, author and consultant. Currently the community manager for the worldwide Ubuntu community, Bacon is a regular keynote speaker, has also authored four books and acted as a consultant to a range of technology companies. Bacon's weblog (http://www.jonobacon.org/) is one of the widest read Open Source weblogs and he writes regularly about community management.

The Art of Community The Art of Community
by Jono Bacon
Second Edition May 2012
Print: $39.99
Ebook: $31.99

The Art of Community The Art of Community
by Jono Bacon
August 2009
Ebook: $23.99

Linux Desktop Hacks Linux Desktop Hacks
by Nicholas Petreley , Jono Bacon
March 2005
Print: $24.95
Ebook: $19.99

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Dogfooding the Ubuntu Phone: My (Early) Experience

May 17 2013

As many of you will know, our goal is to get the Ubuntu phone in a state where it can be used on a daily basis for testing, and importantly, finding bugs, UI issues, and other details that help us to refine the overall Ubuntu Touch experience. Progress is on-track… read more

Getting the Ubuntu Advocacy Kit to 1.0

May 16 2013

A while back I started a project called the Ubuntu Advocacy Kit. The goal is simple: create a single downloadable kit that provides all the information and materials you need to go out and help advocate Ubuntu and our flavors to others. The project lives here on Launchpad and is… read more

On Brainstorm

May 15 2013

Recently the Technical Board made a decision to sunset Brainstorm, the site we have been using for some time to capture a list of what folks would like to see fixed and improved in Ubuntu. Although the site has been in operation for quite some time, it had fallen into… read more

Unity 8 Running on Mir on a Galaxy Nexus

May 14 2013

Hot on the heels of my last post showing Unity 8 running on Mir on a Macbook Pro Retina, there were some folks who were curious about how well Unity and Mir work on a phone. Well, thanks to your friend and mine, Kevin Gunn, you can see a video… read more

Video Demo of Unity 8 on Mir

May 14 2013

Recently the Mir and Unity Next teams got Unity 8 up and running on Mir. Now, this work is still very early in development and neither Mir nor Unity Next are finished yet, but I reached out to Michael Zanetti, who is on the team, and asked him to put… read more

On Simplicity

May 14 2013

As a pretty simple-minded person, I am a big fan of simplicity. The world is filled with too much complexity and too much detail. Many often feel the detail is necessary for particular outcomes or to solve particular problems. The lesson I have learned as I have gotten older though… read more

Ubuntu Developer Summit: This Week!

May 14 2013

Just a quick note to remind everyone that our next Ubuntu Developer Summit is taking place this week on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and is open and available to everyone to participate. This is the event where we get together to discuss, debate, and plan the next three months of… read more

Sprinting In Oakland

May 06 2013

Last week I traveled to Oakland to spend a week with my colleagues at Canonical for the Client Sprint. The aim of the sprint was to ensure the many different teams working on Ubuntu Touch at Canonical are in sync and working as efficiently as possible. This largely involves ensuring… read more

Life Changing Mistakes

April 26 2013

I have a theory (I know, I am full of them). Like most of you, as I have gotten older I have also tried to improve as a person. I am not just talking about being better at what I do with my career and hobbies, but I want to… read more

Ubuntu 13.04 Released

April 25 2013

Ubuntu 13.04, the Raring Ringtail, was released today. Go and download it for Desktop, Server, Cloud, and for our Chinese friends, download Ubuntu Kylin. You can find all the details of what is new in Ubuntu 13.04 on www.ubuntu.com. Ubuntu 13.04 is a fantastic release, and I just want to… read more

Ubuntu Touch Progress

April 25 2013

Ubuntu is on an exciting journey, a journey of convergence. Our goal is to build a convergent Operating System that brings a uniformity of technology and experience across phones, tablets, desktops, and televisions, and smoothing the lines between those devices in terms of interoperability and access to content. It is… read more

Three Point Blogging; An Experiment

April 23 2013

I have an interesting idea I wanted to share that I am calling Three Point Blogging, and I am keen to get your input on this. Feel free to use that daintily prepared comment box, rummaging around at the bottom of this post, to share your feedback and ideas. Blogging… read more

Congratulations to Microsoft Open Technologies

April 23 2013

Recently Microsoft Open Technologies celebrated their one year anniversary. I just wanted to offer my congratulations on this important milestone. Now, it could be tempting for some of you to become a little snitty about Microsoft wanting to engage more openly with people, but I believe that this project (as… read more

Valuable Lessons

April 22 2013

Henry Ford, a great inspirational figure in the history of technological development once said that “when everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it”. Ford faced great technological challenges in building the Model T; a car that he wanted… read more

Smart Scopes Not Landing In 13.04, Will Land in 13.10

March 29 2013

As some of you may know the dash team has been working to get the new smart scopes functionality in the dash ready for 13.04; this functionality delivers a far more comprehensive dash experience, performing searches over 50 or more different data sources. This feature makes the dash dramatically more… read more

Recent Ubuntu Community Refinements

March 18 2013

Our community is at the heart of how we build Ubuntu. Recently there were some concerns expressed about some aspects of our community and I have been working with various community members and internally at Canonical to resolve some of these issues to make things smoother. I just wanted to… read more

The long road toward the Community Leadership Summit

June 01 2011

Community development is an organic process full of unique experiences and turns. So it should be no surprise the Community Leadership Summit followed a similar path. read more

Can open source reinvent the music business?

January 18 2011

Chart success would be nice, but Severed Fifth has a loftier goal than most bands. They want to use hallmarks of the open source movement — specifically, community involvement and free distribution — to change the music business. read more

The Increasing Importance of Community

April 30 2006

Community is a tough science, and one that cannot be boxed and put on a shelf. With the advent of Ubuntu, OpenSuSE, Fedora and Freespire, is community playing an increasing role in Open Source, and if so, how is the community and economics of Open Source changing? read more

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