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Ask Me Anything on Monday

by | Thu 9 Jan 2014

On **Monday 13th Jan** starting at **6pm UTC (10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern)** I will be doing an AMA on Reddit. For those unfamiliar with this – this is where you can ask me anything on Reddit, and the most popular questions and responses are up/down voted.

The post will go live about 30mins before that time so you can start adding questions.

I welcome questions about absolutely anything to do with Ubuntu, Canonical, community management, working in the Open Source industry, writing books, podcasting, free culture, heavy metal, moving from England to America, or anything else. Let’s have some fun!

For those of you who are unfamiliar with my work, I work at Canonical as the Ubuntu Community Manager, I am the author of [The Art of Community](https://artofcommunityonline.org/) by O’Reilly, founder of the annual [Community Leadership Summit](https://communityleadershipsummit.com/), and have spoken around the world about community leadership and encouraging people to get together to create awesome things.

Outside of my work, I co-founded the [Bad Voltage](https://www.badvoltage.org/), [Lugradio](https://www.lugradio.org), and [Shot Of Jaq](https://www.kryogenix.org/shotofjaq.html) podcasts, founded the Creative Commons metal band Severed Fifth, wrote an [archive of Creative Commons music](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/creative/), built the BBQ website [BBQpad](https://bbqpad.com/), write for various magazines (Linux Format / Ubuntu User), and have contributed to various Open Source projects.

I will follow up on Twitter/Google+ with a link to the thread when it is published.

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