Jonathan Edward James Bacon is a writer and software engineer, originally from the United Kingdom, but now based in California. He works as a consultant on community strategy. He is also the founder of Stateshift, a consulting firm focused on developer relations and go-to-market strategy.

History

Bacon started his work with the

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community when he created the Linux UK website. When he left this project he moved on to join the

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team, where he created the KDE::Enterprise website and KDE Usability Study, before shifting his attention to GNOME Bacon started his career as a Linux journalist before moving on, in 2006, to work for OpenAdvantage, to help move organizations to Open Source solutions. From 4 September 2006, until 28 May 2014, he worked for Canonical Ltd. as the

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Community Manager. From 29 May 2014, until 30 October 2015, he worked at XPrize as the Senior Director of Community. From 14 November 2015, to May 2016, Bacon worked as Director of Community for

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. He currently works as a consultant on community strategy.

Journalism

Bacon has written for a variety of publications, including '' Linux User and Developer'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. In addition to these magazines, he has also written a number of books, including "The Art of Community", "Linux Desktop Hacks", "PHP and MySQL Web Applications: Building Eight Dynamic Web Sites" and he also co-wrote "The Official Ubuntu Book" () with

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, Corey Burger, and Jonathan Jesse. His most recent book, ''People Powered: How Communities Can Supercharge Your Business, Brand, and Teams'' (Harper Business, 2019), explores how organizations can build and scale communities to drive growth and engagement. Bacon was the co-founder of the ''

LugRadio ''LugRadio'' was a British podcast on the topic of Linux and events in the free and open source software communities, as well as coverage of technology, digital rights and politics. The show was launched in 2004 as a result of discussions betwe ...

'' and ''Bad Voltage'' podcasts and was a co-host on

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Music

Bacon played in several

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bands as singer and guitarist. From 2008 to 2012, he and Defiance guitarist Jim Adams ran the metal band Severed Fifth, which released three albums and distributed its music freely under a

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Bibliography

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References

External links

Jono Bacon's website and blog
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