Jono Bacon is a leading community manager, speaker, author, and podcaster. He is the founder of Jono Bacon Consulting which provides community strategy/execution, developer workflow, and other services. He also previously served as director of community at GitHub, Canonical, XPRIZE, OpenAdvantage, and consulted and advised a range of organizations.
Bacon is a prominent author and speaker on community management and best practice, and wrote the best-selling The Art of Community (O’Reilly), is the founder of the primary annual conference for community managers and leaders, the Community Leadership Summit, founder of the Community Leadership Forum, and is a regular keynote speaker at events about community management, leadership, and best practice. He also writes columns for Forbes and opensource.com.
Bacon has provided community management consultancy for both internal and external communities for a range of organizations. This includes Deutsche Bank, Intel, SAP, Sony Mobile, Samsung, Open Compute Project, IBM, Dyson, Mozilla, National Finishing Contractors Association, AlienVault, and others. He holds advisory positions at AlienVault, Open Networking Foundation, and Open Cloud Consortium.
In addition to The Art of Community, Bacon is a columnist for Forbes and opensource.com, author of Dealing with Disrespect, and co-authored Linux Desktop Hacks (O’Reilly), Official Ubuntu Book (Prentice Hall), and Practical PHP and MySQL (Prentice Hall). Bacon has written over 500 articles across 12 different publications. He writes regularly for a range of magazines.
Bacon was the co-founder of the popular LugRadio podcast, which ran for four years with 2million+ downloads and 15,000 listeners, as well as spawning five live events in both the UK and the USA, and co-founded the Shot Of Jaq podcast. He co-founded the Bad Voltage podcast, a popular show about technology, Open Source, politics, and more. He founded the Creative Commons music projects Severed Fifth and Chimp Foot, and is also the founder of the Ubuntu Accomplishments, Jokosher, Acire, Python Snippets, and Lernid software projects.
He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area in California with his wife, Erica, and their son, Jack.
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You may well be right. I am not suggesting I know everything about this. I do think I have a reasonable track record, but I still have *much* to learn.
Is Ubuntu better today than it was while I was there? Who knows? There are a multitude of metrics assessing this, and to accurately assess the impact I had there you would need to know all the things I did (or didn't) do while at Canonical. Given that you don't know those things yet are willing to jump to this conclusion, I would go so far as to suggest you don't like me, as opposed to making an objective assessment.
This is further illustrated by your view that I made a profession ridiculing people. This is entirely untrue: what I did though was stand up to idiotic comments such as this.
I think you misunderstand my point.
I am not suggesting we *require* community members to write code, or that we always accept code from community members. What I am suggesting is that there is a social contract in a good community between participation and constructively helping the overall goals.
If someone wants to just help discuss a solution, and they do it in an informed, productive, and constructive way, then brilliant! What I think is less brilliant are people who just want to rant at the community about their opinions.