by Jono Bacon | Jun 11, 2018 | Closed Source, Free Culture, Free Software, Open Source
Recently the news broke that Microsoft are acquiring GitHub. Effusive opinions flowed from all directions: some saw the acquisition as a sensible fit for Microsoft to better support developers, and some saw it as a tyrant getting their grubby fingers on open...
by Jono Bacon | May 14, 2018 | Failture, Leadership
I realized I haven’t been putting many videos online recently. As such, I have started recording some instructional and coaching videos that I am putting online that I hope are useful to you folks. To get started, I wanted to touch on the topic of handling...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 17, 2018 | Events
Back in February I announced the Call For Papers for the Open Collaboration Conference was open. For those of you in the dark, last year I ran the Open Community Conference as part of the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit events in North America and Europe....
by Jono Bacon | Mar 11, 2018 | Governance
I have noticed an interesting pattern when some new projects and initiatives get started: they have an excessive application of governance, in many cases to deliver an impression of “completeness” or project independence. I want to share a few words on how...
by Jono Bacon | Mar 2, 2018 | Advisory Positions, Moltin
As mentioned previously, I am advisor to a startup called Moltin which provides a simple yet powerful API for building eCommerce solutions in a variety of places. It has the potential to really change how we think of eCommerce transactions, making it easier, more...
