Jono Bacon

This talk covers how to effectively manage conflict resolution, crisis situations, and burnout in a pragmatic way, while also putting in place preventative measures to prevent them happening in the first place. The talk features an overview of the core issues and then pragmatic, practical recommendations that you can immediately apply and refine in your own communities and organizations.

For nearly eight years, Jono Bacon was the Ubuntu Community Manager at Canonical and was involved in Ubuntu's transformation from humble desktop, through to dominant cloud platform, ambitious devices strategy, and beyond.

In this new presentation, Bacon will share a summary of key lessons he learned throughout this experience, both the successes and the stumbles,share the stories behind them, and highlight how these lessons can be utilized today.

Be sure to join him for an entertaining and informative presentation.

Jono Bacon shares a collection of pragmatic do's and don'ts for engaging in and building open source communities. These recommendations span from across his career and touch on on-boarding new communities, developer workflow, building growth, managing conflict, governance, social media, personal career development, management, and more.

When you have a kid, it is like having a little science experiment going on in your house. All the princles we associate with open source, with communities, and with collaboration, are rooted in the intrinsic qualities buried in people...even brand-new people.

In this presentation Jono Bacon, father of a boisterous 4 year-old called Jack, will share some core principles he has learned about people, open source, community, and collaboration from watching this little science experiment grow up and evolve. Join him for an amusing, entertaining, and informative presentation.

Panel discussion about leadership and direction of the Ubuntu project. The audience will be able to interact with some of the key leaders in Ubuntu by proposing topics or asking questions Q&A style

Panelists:

• Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu founder
• Oliver Ries, Director of Engineering, Ubuntu Personal
• David Planella, Ubuntu Community Team Manager
• Ubuntu Community Council and LoCo Council representatives

Moderator: Jono Bacon

In the 14 years that the Southern California Linux Expo has existed, a lot has changed in the Free & Open Source Community.  We've invited three very distinguished speakers from the SCALE community as well as the FLOSS community at large,  Jon "Maddog" Hall, Jono Bacon and Keila Banks, to reflect on where the community has been, where it currently is, and what the future holds.

For over ten years, the Ubuntu project has had a consistent flow of releases and a strong community. From Day 1 the community was a core part of what made Ubuntu special.

In 2006, Jono Bacon joined as Ubuntu Community Manager, working for nearly 8 years before he left in 2014. In this new presentation, Bacon shares the history of Ubuntu and delves into his view of the community and how it has adjusted since he left Canonical. Bacon will also provide recommendations for new areas of focus and opportunity in Ubuntu.

GitHub has become the primary place for Open Source communities to store and collaborate around code. Effective communities are more than just code though and in this presentation Jono Bacon, Director of Community at GitHub shares how to use GitHub and other related tools to build effective, productive Open Source communities

In this practical presentation he will cover collaboraton, release management, planning, issue tracking, advocacy, community growth, and other topics. If you use GitHub or are planning on using it, be sure to join this in-depth talk.

Jono Bacon spent eight years at Canonical as the Ubuntu Community Manager and was one of the most public representatives of Ubuntu. He left for XPRIZE in May 2014.

In this new presentation, Bacon shares the history of Ubuntu, what the future, how the Canonical machine works, and shares some candid new insights from stepping outside of Canonical. He will also show the new bq Ubuntu phone, of which only a few are in the USA, and have a full Q&A.

XPRIZE inspires and encourages people to solve the major challenges facing humanity, such as education, healthcare, space travel, life sciences, and more.

Jono Bacon, Senior Director of Community at XPRIZE, will walk through the goals and focus of XPRIZE and share how he is working on a global community designed to help solve these grand challenges.

The Open Source community, developers, and advocates are a key part of this work. Come and find out how you can change the world.

In this new presentation, Jono Bacon, the Ubuntu Community Manager at Canonical will provide an update on the wide variety of efforts going on in the Ubuntu world as they build convergence for phones, tablets, desktops, and TVs. The presentation will touch on the user experience, developer platform, advocacy, and many other areas to bring you fully up to date with where Ubuntu is in its roadmap. At the end of the session Jono will provide an extended Q&A where you can ask him absolutely anything. If you are an Ubuntu fan, be sure to be there!