by Jono Bacon | Sep 16, 2018 | Community, Conflict Resolution, Linux
Today, Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, which powers everything from smartwatches to electrical grids posted a pretty remarkable note on the kernel mailing list. As a little bit of backstory, Linus has sometimes come under fire for the ways in which he has...
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 | Feb 4, 2018 | Community, Community Leadership Conference, Community Management
Earlier last year I announced last year that I was partnering up with the Linux Foundation to create the Open Community Conference as part of their Open Source Summit events in North America and Europe. Well, the events happened, and it was (in my humble opinion) an...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 7, 2017 | Business, Community, Innersource, Jono Bacon Consulting, Leadership
I have be honest with you folks, the last few weeks have been crazy with travel. Since the beginning of September I have been to Hong Kong, Orlando, Charleston, Prague, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and I am about to head to New York. In this time I have keynoted two...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 23, 2017 | Community, Community Management
One of the most challenging components of building a community is how to (a) determine what to measure, (b) measure it effectively, and (c) interpret those measurements in a way that drives improvements. Of course, what complicates this is that communities are a...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 7, 2017 | Community, Community Management, Events
A little while back I announced that I am starting a new conference called the Open Community Conference in conjunction with my friends at the Linux Foundation. Put simply: the Open Community Conference provides a raft of presentations, panels, and BoFs with pragmatic...
