by Jono Bacon | Nov 28, 2016 | Community, Giveaway
I little while back I kicked off a competition to give away a Luma Wifi Set. The challenge? Share a great community that you feel does wonderful work. The most interesting one, according to yours truly, gets the prize. Well, I am delighted to share that Garrett Nay...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 23, 2016 | Linux Foundation, Microsoft, Open Source
Last week the Linux Foundation announced Microsoft becoming a Platinum member. In the eyes of some, hell finally froze over. For many though, myself included, this was not an entirely surprising move. Microsoft are becoming an increasingly active member of the open...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 21, 2016 | Community Leadership Conference, Community Leadership Summit
This week I was delighted to see that we could take the wraps off a new event that I am running in conjunction with my friends at the Linux Foundation called the Community Leadership Conference. The event will be part of the Open Source Summit which was previously...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 2, 2016 | Giveaway, Reviews
For some reason, wifi has always been the bane of my technological existence. Every house, every router, every cable provider…I have always suffered from bad wifi. I have tried to fix it and in most cases failed. As such, I was rather excited when I discovered...
by Jono Bacon | Oct 20, 2016 | Events
Last year I went to All Things Open for the first time and did a keynote. You can watch the keynote here. I was really impressed with All Things Open last year and have subsequently become friends with the principle organizer, Todd Lewis. I loved how the team put...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 28, 2016 | Bacon Roundup
Here we are with another roundup of things I have been working on, complete with a juicy foray into the archives too. So, sit back, grab a cup of something delicious, and enjoy. To gamify or not to gamify community (opensource.com) In this piece I explore whether...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 25, 2016 | Clients, data.world, Talent Required
Some time ago I signed an Austin-based data company called data.world as a client. The team are building an incredible platform where the community can store data, collaborate around the shape/content of that data, and build an extensive open data commons. As I wrote...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 19, 2016 | ClusterH, Talent Required
Recently I signed ClusterHQ as a client. If you are unfamiliar with them, they provide a neat technology for managing data as part of the overall lifecycle of an application. You can learn more about them here. I will be consulting with Cluster to help them (a) build...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 1, 2016 | Clients, Community, Community Management, HackerOne, Projects, Psychology
This week HackerOne, who I have been working with recently, landed Report Templates. In a nutshell, a report template is a configurable chunk of text that can be pre-loaded into the vulnerability submission form instead of a blank white box. For example: The goal of a...
by Jono Bacon | Aug 30, 2016 | Reddit
Just a quick note that my Reddit Ask Me Anything discussion is live. Be sure to head over to this link and get your questions in! All and any questions are absolutely welcome!
