by Jono Bacon | Dec 17, 2014 | Community
I am 35 years old and *people* never cease to surprise me. My trip home from Los Angeles today was a good example of this. It was a tortuous affair that should have been a quick hop from LA to Oakland, popping on BArt, and then getting home for a cup of tea and an...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 3, 2014 | Community
Folks, I need to ask for some help. Like many, I have some go-to examples of great communities. This includes Wikipedia, OpenStreetmap, Ubuntu, Debian, Linux, and others. Many of these are software related, many of them are Open Source. I would like to ask your...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 24, 2014 | Canonical, Community, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
Sorry, this is *long*, but hang in there. A little while back I wrote [a blog post](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/2014/11/14/ubuntu-governance-reboot/) that seemed to inspire some people and ruffle the feathers of some others. It was designed as a...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 14, 2014 | Canonical, Community, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LoCo Teams
For many years Ubuntu has had a comprehensive governance structure. At the top of the tree are the Community Council (community policy) and the Technical Board (technical policy). Below those boards are sub-councils such as the IRC, Forum, and LoCo councils, and...
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 | 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...
