by Jono Bacon | Nov 3, 2014 | Community
A while back I wrote and released a free e-book called [Dealing With Disrespect](https://www.dealingwithdisrespect.com/). It is a book that provides a short, simple to read, free guide for handling personalized, mean-spirited, disrespectful, and in some cases,...
by Jono Bacon | Oct 24, 2014 | Bad Voltage
Today [Bad Voltage](https://www.badvoltage.org) celebrates our first birthday. We plan on celebrating it by having someone else blow out our birthday candles while we smash a cake and quietly defecate on ourselves. For those of you unaware of the show, *Bad Voltage*...
by Jono Bacon | Oct 20, 2014 | Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
Today is Ubuntu’s ten year anniversary. Scott did a [wonderful job](https://netsplit.com/happy-10th-birthday-ubuntu) summarizing many of those early years and his own experience, and while I won’t be as articulate as him, I wanted to share a few thoughts...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 23, 2014 | Advocacy, Community, Ubuntu LoCo Teams, XPRIZE
Today we are launching the [Global Learning XPRIZE](https://learning.xprize.org) complete with [Indigogo crowdfunding campaign](https://igg.me/at/learningxprize). This is a $15 million competition in which **teams are challenged to create Open Source software that...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 11, 2014 | Ubuntu
I [read an interesting article on OMG! Ubuntu!](https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/09/ubuntu-smartwatch-apple-iwatch) about whether Canonical will enter the wearables business, now the smartwatch industry is hotting up. On one hand (pun intended), it makes sense. Ubuntu...
