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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!
Thanks for the flowers.
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
He used Windows for all his videocasts because Ubuntu doesn't cut it when it comes to multimedia.
He was kind of like the guy at the call center who gets all the abuse for the bad decisions of a company. If you critcize Ubuntu on Ubuntuforums you will get banned pretty quickly, but on those Q&A sessions it was alot harder for them to silence the critics.