Slashdot Mirror
Jono Bacon Leaves Canonical For XPRIZE
An anonymous reader writes "Jono Bacon, who has been Ubuntu Community Manager for Canonical for nearly eight years is moving on to join the XPRIZE Foundation (known for incentivizing solving major issues, such as the Google Lunar and Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZES) to be Senior Director of Community."
Jono is a face and voice of Ubuntu I've always respected. During my years with Linux, I've been an on-again/off-again Ubuntu user, but despite that I still enjoyed his Q&A sessions and the way he carried himself on G+ and the like. He just seemed human.
While I am undoubtedly quite sad to see Jono leave, the nature of the position he's moving towards sounds like a great fit. Best wishes, Jono!
No doubt "Mr. Community" got tired of defending the massively unpopular decisions by Canonical (Mir and Unity) and working for a spacey control freak.
Sad to see him leave Ubuntu, but XPRIZE will no doubt benefit. He's always seemed to be a great motivator for a community, and a level headed guy that can balance the conflicting interests and passions. I think Ubuntu has improved from his participation, but he has been there awhile (especially in tech). Maybe some new blood could also help Ubuntu.
Here's to seeing good things from Jono at XPRIZE.
Thanks for the flowers.
Eight years is a long time in tech. Jono has done much for the Ubuntu community. As an open source supporter and Ubuntu user, I will miss his contributions and thank him for his excellent work. He's a great motivator and an interesting author with much to contribute. No doubt he will do well for XPRIZE.
As plugs for your new book go, that was beyond subtle.
Good luck matey. And don't forget us coders back in Blighty's Midlands that you left behind for a new life in... ooh, look, it's actually not raining outside! What were we talking about again?
(Jono's new book is called "Dealing with Disrespect" and is available wherever your search engine takes you. No, I'm not affiliated.)
Andrew Oakley - www.aoakley.com
Many thanks, Andrew!
Does he argue for something different than 'don't feed the trolls'?
`echo $[0x853204FA81]|tr 0-9 ionbsdeaml`@gmail.com
Does he argue for something different than 'don't feed the trolls'?
It is more subtle; it is more about putting all communication in context so the unconstructive content doesn't cause as much damage, and you can pull out the best bits of feedback to improve as a person.
My kingdom for a mod point!
I see. But I asked because the root of this thread doesn't have any constructive content... therefore you should have just ignored it, IMHO.
`echo $[0x853204FA81]|tr 0-9 ionbsdeaml`@gmail.com
Even though you have a book about dealing with being flamed, but it would be way more enjoyable for Slashdot readers if they could just enjoy the "Slashdot experience" and just write trash about you without having to worry about you reading it.
I'm not really familiar enough with you to be able to libel you, but I'm sure there are at least some folks who would be enjoying themselves far more if they hadn't seen your name in the comments section. It has a chilling effect on discussion.
When Argumentum ad Hominem falls short, try Argumentum ad Matrem
Yeah, but then nobody would've had an excuse to plug his book. QED.
Andrew Oakley - www.aoakley.com
My big hunk of manflesh is leaving Canonical for greener pasture? I'm shattered.
Not really, no.
:wq
He used Windows for all his videocasts because Ubuntu doesn't cut it when it comes to multimedia.
Keep communitizing the communities with community-based tools, Jono!
Oh, PS:
The content of this communication clearly demonstrates lack of approval, but is still very unspecific about what they dislike about my record. The tone is quite rude and disrespectful, and the context appears to be passive (not the result of an argument, for example). Given the tone and the fact I don't know the person and they are outside of my target audience, I would ignore this. It is trolling...don't engage, just ignore and enjoy your life. Let's file this in disagreeable; it is quite rude and disparaging, but it is not abusive or threatening. [Bacon 2014]
When Argumentum ad Hominem falls short, try Argumentum ad Matrem
I am a Ubuntu fan. Jono has been ethusiastic on G+ and I've been enjoying to see his posts. I wish the next community manager would be just like him. Best wishes for the future to both Ubuntu and Jono.
Bring back LUG RADIO!
Anybody want a peanut?
How lovely. :-)
Love the logic. I am terrible for calling RMS "childish" and then apologizing two days later, but your behavior is perfectly reasonable and justified for calling me a "fucking scumbug" who deserves a caning. Love it.
Delightful.
To be fair, your foot tickles.
I community didn't die; we focused on new areas and saw significant growth such as in app developers and cloud. Some parts of our traditional community has indeed seen some lower participation as we have focused on these new areas that needed spinning up. I don't believe it is fair to characterize this as the overall community dying though.
I agree we need a long term vision, such as this video "The World in 2050" by XPRIZE founder, Peter Diamandis - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
...and then apologized two days later. It turns out, some people are human and make mistakes. I am human, I make mistakes, but I apologize for them. At least I don't call people a "fucking scumbag". The irony is strong in this one.
Never! ;-)
Yep, you got me. What a mind reader.
Dad?
Being serious for a second though, I am sorry you feel I am an enemy of Free Software. I have devoted my life to furthering Free Software across various projects, but the key point here is that there is room for everyone. If you have ethical issues with Ubuntu, there are plenty of other distros available. What doesn't help anyone is this personalized and aggressive tone and language; let's not forget we are all people. Also, as a side note, I barely know Lefty and haven't seen him for probably four years, and even then it was a five minute chat at GUADEC. You are seeing conspiracy and subterfuge where none exists.
I am not an enemy of Free Software; you may disagree with Ubuntu or my work, but you don't speak for everyone. Let's keep things civil: we are all people.
I'm so old I can remember when Jono didn't sign in to \. under his real name. But then again I'm so old I can't remember the password to my sparkes account on here.