by Jono Bacon | May 18, 2017 | Random
Recently I got a Google Home (thanks to Google for the kind gift). Last week I recorded a quick video of me interrogating it: Well, tonight I nipped upstairs quickly to go and grab something and as I came back downstairs I heard Jack, our vivacious 4-year-old asking...
by Jono Bacon | May 1, 2017 | Open Community Conference
This coming weekend is the Community Leadership Summit in Austin (I hope to see you all there!), but there is another event I am running which you need to know about. The Open Community Conference is one of the four main events that is part of the Open Source Summit...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 28, 2017 | Community, Community Management
Today Solomon asked an interesting question on Twitter: He made it clear he is not advocating for this view, just a thought experiment. I had, well, a few thoughts on this. I tend to think of open source projects in three broad buckets. Firstly, we have the overall...
by Jono Bacon | Apr 5, 2017 | Canonical, Ubuntu
I wrote this on G+, but it seemed appropriate to share it here too: So, today Canonical decided to refocus their business and move away from convergence and devices. This means that the Ubuntu desktop will move back to GNOME. I have seen various responses to this...
by Jono Bacon | Mar 24, 2017 | Business
As some of you will know, I am a consultant that helps companies build internal and external communities, collaborative workflow, and teams. Like any consultant, I have different leads that I need to manage, I convert those leads into opportunities, and then I need to...
by Jono Bacon | Mar 23, 2017 | Community, Community Management
The Community Leadership Summit is taking place on the 6th – 7th May 2017 in Austin, USA. The event brings together community managers and leaders, projects, and initiatives to share and learn how we build strong, engaging, and productive communities. The event...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 9, 2017 | HackerOne
For some time now I have been working with HackerOne to help them shape and grow their hacker community. It has been a pleasure working with the team: they are doing great work, have fantastic leadership (including my friend, Mårten Mickos), are seeing consistent...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 24, 2017 | Coding, Education, Endless
Recently, I have had the pleasure of working with a fantastic company called Endless who are building a range of computers and a Linux-based operating system called Endless OS. My work with them has primarily been involved in the community and product development of...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 22, 2016 | Smart Home
Early next year Erica, the scamp, and I are likely to be moving house. As part of the move we would both love to turn this house into a smart home. Now, when I say “smart home”, I don’t mean this: We don’t need any holographic dogs. We are...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 19, 2016 | Innersource
One of the core principles of open source and innersource communities is asynchronous workflow. That is, participants/employees should be able to collaborate together with ubiquitous access, from anywhere, at any time. As a practical example, at a previous company I...
