by Jono Bacon | Jan 11, 2016 | Community, GitHub, Ubuntu
In a week and a half I am flying out to Pasadena to the SCALE14x conference. I will be there from the evening of Wed 20th Jan 2016 to Sun 24th Jan 2016. SCALE is a tremendous conference, as I have mentioned many times before. This is a busy year for me, so I wanted to...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 8, 2016 | Bad Voltage
As I posted about the other day we are doing Bad Voltage Live in Los Angeles in a few weeks. It is on Fri 22nd Jan 2016 at 8pm at the SCALE14x Conference in Los Angeles. Find out more about the show here. Now, I need every one of you to help provide some answers for a...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 6, 2016 | Bad Voltage
On Friday 22nd January 2016 the Bad Voltage team will be delivering a live show at the SCALE14x conference in Pasadena, California. For those of you unfamiliar with Bad Voltage, it is a podcast that Stuart Langridge, Bryan Lunduke, Jeremy Garcia, and myself do every...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 30, 2015 | Free Software, Open Source
Today we heard the sad news that Ian Murdock has passed away. He was 42. Although Ian and my paths crossed relatively infrequently, over the years we became friends. His tremendous work in Debian was an inspiration for my own work in Ubuntu. At times when I was unsure...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 11, 2015 | Ubuntu
The 21st – 22nd January 2016 are some important dates you need to pencil into your calendar. The reason? That is when the UbuCon Summit is happening in Pasadena, California, USA. Many moons ago there used to be the Ubuntu Developer Summit events. They...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 1, 2015 | Running
Recently I started running. I blame Jason Hibbets for this. While at the Community Leadership Summit earlier this year we got chatting about running and through some gentle persuasion he convinced me to give it a shot. So I did. Based on Jason’s recommendations...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 28, 2015 | Business
This week I had a rather frustrating customer experience. Now, in these kinds of situations some folks like to take to their blogs to spew their frustration in the direction of the Internet and feel a sense of catharsis. To be honest, what I found frustrating about...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 25, 2015 | Free Software, Open Source
There are a number of important organizations in the Open Source and Free Software world that do tremendously valuable work. This includes groups such as the Linux Foundation, Free Software Foundation, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Apache Software Foundation, and...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 16, 2015 | Atom, GitHub, Programming
As a hobbyist Python programmer, over the years I have tried a variety of different editors. Back in the day I used to use Eclipse with the PyDev plugin. I then moved on to use GEdit with a few extensions switched on. After that I moved to Geany. I have to admit, much...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 13, 2015 | Writing
Over the course of my career I have been fortune to meet some incredible people and learn some interesting things. These have been both dramatic new approaches to my work and small insights that provide a different lens to look at a problem through. When I learn these...
