by Jono Bacon | Jul 20, 2017 | Desktop, Linux, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
Recently, I posted a piece about distributions consolidating around a consistent app store. In it I mentioned Flatpak as a potential component and some people wondered why I didn’t recommend Snappy, particularly due to my Canonical heritage. To be clear (and to...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 13, 2017 | Desktop, Linux, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
When I joined Canonical in 2006, the Linux desktop world operated in a very upstream way. All distributions used the Linux kernel, all used X, and the majority shipped either GNOME, KDE, or both. The following years mixed things up a little. As various companies...
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...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 5, 2017 | Bacon Roundup, Community, Community Management, Gamification
As part of my work, I tend to write a lot of articles, participate in interviews, and various other things. Previously I have not done a very good job at sharing these things on my blog, but as the number of people who subscribe to my posts seems to be growing, I am...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 25, 2017 | Innersource, Organizational Development
In recent years innersource is a term that has cropped up more and more. As with all new things in technology, there has been a healthy mix of interest and suspicion around what exactly innersource is (and what it isn’t). As a consultant I work with a range of...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 16, 2017 | Social Media
I am going to be honest with you, I am writing this post out of one part frustration and one part guidance to people who I think may be inadvertently making a mistake. I wanted to write this up as a blog post so I can send it to people when I see this happening. It...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 15, 2017 | Community, Community Management, Interview
I recently did an interview with Jeff Atwood, co-creator of StackExchange and Discourse about his approach to building platforms, communities. and more. Read it here.
by Jono Bacon | Jun 15, 2017 | Culture, Organizational Development
See my new post for opensource.com about how you build culture in an organization/community: “Culture” is a pretty ambiguous word. Sure, reams of social science research explore exactly what exactly “culture” is, but to the average Joe and...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 14, 2017 | Community, Community Management, Organizational Development
Back in the 40s, TVs were giant, ugly behemoths. They were jammed with vacuum tubes, big bulky components, and were prone to overheating and failure. Earl “madman” Muntz was an engineer and businessman who started repairing radios when he was 8 and built...
by Jono Bacon | Jun 5, 2017 | Community, Community Management, Metrics
A few weeks ago I spoke at DevXCon in San Francisco. I delivered a keynote about measuring the health of a community and how we can tie effective measurements into community reputation, incentives, and other elements. In that talk I touched on the importance of...
