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Jono Bacon

http://twitter.com/jonobacon

Berkeley, California

Community manager, author and speaker.

Areas of Expertise:

  • Linux
  • Ubuntu
  • open source
  • KDE
  • consulting
  • speaking

Biography

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.

Books

The Art of Community The Art of Community
by Jono Bacon
August 2009
Print: $39.99
Ebook: $23.99

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

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Articles

Blog

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Jono's blog posts are hosted at:
http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/
http://www.jonobacon.org/feed/

Creating a roadmap for more successful teams

November 09 2009

One of the challenges that every community faces, particularly teams inside a larger community, is the ability to coordinate what goals and ambitions the team is going to work on. Traditionally this has always been somewhat ad-hoc: people join a team and work on whatever they feel like. Ideas are… read more

Canonical and Creative Commons Meet Donations Target

November 09 2009

Melissa from the Creative Commons pointed me to the rather good news that Canonical’s offer to match Creative Commons donations up to $3000 has already been matched: Just five days ago we announced that Canonical would be generously matching every donation dollar for dollar for the next week – up… read more

One Year Anniversary

November 09 2009

One year ago today, I married the love of my life, Erica. From the minute we went on our first date, I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her. We instantly developed a close connection; a bond that spans beliefs, interests, ambitions and tastes. Since… read more

The Intersection Of Quality And Expectations

November 06 2009

There has been a little bit o’chatter on the tubes recently regarding quality and our recent release, Ubuntu 9.10. There we were on Thursday, champagne in hand, kicking a new release out the door and while I have seen countless reports of happy users with effortless upgrades and hardware and… read more

Not Tolerating The Intolerant

November 05 2009

Thanks to my friends over at ZDNet for allowing me to post another guest article on their Between The Lines column. This time I have written an article discussing the importance of a productive, pleasant and pleasurable community that rewards great work and celebrates the exchange of both agreeable and… read more

The Art of Community is #1 Culture Book on Amazon.com

November 05 2009

It may have changed by the time you read this, but The Art of Community has now hit the #1 slot for the Business and Culture category Amazon.com: You can see it on this page and you can check out the Art of Community Amazon page here. Go and buy… read more

The Art of Community #1 Culture Book on Amazon.com

November 05 2009

It may have changed by the time you read this, but The Art of Community has now hit the #1 slot for the Business and Culture category Amazon.com: You can see it on this page and you can check out the Art of Community Amazon page here. Go and buy… read more

Art of Community Webinar Soon

November 05 2009

Just a quick note: I am doing a webinar on my book The Art of Community at 9am Pacific today. You can join us here. read more

Art of Community Webinar Soon

November 05 2009

Just a quick note: I am doing a webinar on my book The Art of Community at 9am Pacific today. You can join us here. read more

Canonical Matching Creative Commons Donations

November 05 2009

Here at Canonical we are all big fans of the Creative Commons. For those of you unfamiliar with them, they have created a set of Free Culture licenses that make it simple for people to release open content. They also run a variety of resources to make finding and remixing… read more

Don’t Listen Alone: The LugRadio Documentary – Now Available Online

November 04 2009

Last year we wrapped up LugRadio after five seasons, over 2million downloads and six live events. For over a year now Tony Whitmore from the excellent ubuntu-uk Podcast has been working on a documentary chronicling the history of the show, and packed with interviews, behind-the-scenes footage of how we planned… read more

Start Your UDS Blueprint Registering Engines

November 04 2009

In a few weeks the Ubuntu Developer Summit kicks off in Dallas. There will be discussing a wide range of topics across seven tracks: community, kernel, desktop, qa, foundations, mobile and server. We are about to begin scheduling sessions, and I just wanted to invite those of you who are… read more

The New Shot Of Jaq Website Is Open

November 03 2009

Just a quick note to let you good folks know that the Shot Of Jaq website is now open at www.shotofjaq.org – come and join the beginnings of our community. If you have no idea what Shot Of Jaq is, read this. The very first episode of Shot Of Jaq… read more

Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame: Laura Cowen

November 02 2009

A few weekends back I was in Wolverhampton for the power and glory that was LugRadio Live 2009 and I just wanted to write up a quick blog entry about someone who never ceases to impress me with her work: Laura Cowen. As usual, Laura was knee-deep in crew responsibilities… read more

Karmic Released and London Release Party Tonight

October 29 2009

Just a quick message to those of you based in Blighty. I and many other Ubuntu folks will be partying tonight to celebrate the release of Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala at: Salvador & Amanda, 8 Great Newport Street, London, WC2H 7JA. +44 (0) 20 7240 1551 I hope to [...] read more

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