by Jono Bacon | Jul 26, 2018 | Community Leadership Summit
A few weeks ago I ran the ninth annual Community Leadership Summit in Portland, Oregon. As usual, O’Reilly provided the venue space and AV for us (as it happens the weekend before OSCON), and we had a fantastic line-up of sponsors, including: Many thanks to all...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 24, 2018 | Community, Community Leadership Conference, Community Management
Last week I ran the Community Leadership Summit in Portland, Oregon, and also attended the OSCON summit there. It was a fantastic week and I will be following up with more details about CLS soon. While there, my old friend (and editor of The Art of Community), Andy...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 10, 2018 | Leadership
Recently I gave a keynote at DevXCon in San Francisco. So, what better place to deliver a presentation that is entirely non-technical and non-specific to developer relations? “You are bonkers, Bacon”, I hear you say. Well, hold your horses. Effective...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 28, 2018 | Communication, Management, Projects
One thing I see clients reach for the Pepto about over and over again is how to manage work effectively. They often struggle to (a) gather and communicate requirements (and not a Christmas list), (b) understand these needs and set expectations, and (c) manage how this...
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...
