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Jono Bacon
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Jono Bacon is a personal blog at jonobacon.org about programming and culture. Since 2008, 50 different Hacker News readers have linked it 69 times, most often “Ubuntu Community Manager Says FSF's Stallman Spreads FUD”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Jono Bacon is a leading community strategy, management, and execution author, consultant, and speaker.
Most-linked posts?
- /2010/10/25/ubuntu-11-04-to-ship-unity/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-10-25
- Ubuntu Community Manager Says FSF's Stallman Spreads FUD3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-12-07
- Ubuntu Phone: Community Driven and Designed Core Apps2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-01-25
- Open Source Protection2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-08-30
- Moving on from GitHub2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-23
- “Can we retrain the workforce as knowledge workers?”2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-08-02
- Ubuntu's Community team offers 2 full-time 6-month unpaid internships2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-03-19
What Hacker News says?
> Does anyone know of any other incidents that make case against centralized servers? Yes. Many of these are undemocratic, but others are merely unintentional problems of reliability induced by a single point of failure. http://www.delicious.com/kragen/decentralization-stories has a few dozen items up through 2008. http://beckyzoole.livejournal.com/395310.html livejournal users want more control of livejournal. dece…
Comment linking /2010/03/26/facebook-account-disabled/
on “Why I do not want to work at Google”Submitted Ubuntu Core On The Nexus 7 as a story · 77 points
HN discussionI just want to point out that the link is for user submitted design suggestions and is not necessarily official Canonical plan of record for what will ship. http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/01/23/community-driven-ubuntu-... It's a subtle distinction I wanted to point out. Not speaking on behalf of Canonical, just in my own capacity.
Comment linking /2013/01/23/community-driven-ubuntu-phone-core-apps/
on “Ubuntu Phone will include a Terminal application”Submitted Moving on from GitHub as a story · 31 points
HN discussionWhile the images don't seem to want to load there's a good writeup at: http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/03/03/refreshing-the-ubuntu-br...
Comment linking /2010/03/03/refreshing-the-ubuntu-brand/
on “The new branding of Ubuntu”Submitted Ubuntu's Community team offers 2 full-time 6-month unpaid internships as a story · 25 points
HN discussionI think this clarifies things: "There is going to be some questions about this decision in relation to GNOME. I want to make something crystal clear: Ubuntu is a GNOME distribution, we ship the GNOME stack, we will continue to ship GNOME apps, and we optimize Ubuntu for GNOME. The only difference is that Unity is a different shell for GNOME, but we continue to support the latest GNOME Shell development work in the U…
Comment linking /2010/10/25/ubuntu-11-04-to-ship-unity/
on “Ubuntu 11.04 will use Unity UX instead of GNOME Desktop”Submitted Red Hat, Canonical and GNOME Contributions as a story · 18 points
HN discussionThis reminded me the story of "unpaid internships" ( http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/03/19/two-ubuntu-community-tea... ), IMHO, there's nothing wrong, but their HR can do it better?
Comment linking /2010/03/19/two-ubuntu-community-team-intern-opportunities-available/
on “Next thing for Ubuntu to learn”Submitted On Being Childish; An Apology as a story · 10 points
HN discussion... :-( Condolences to my fellow Fedora community members and those who have worked with him at Red Hat. He will be missed. Thanks Jono Bacon for his message: http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/07/09/remembering-seth-vidal/
Comment linking /2013/07/09/remembering-seth-vidal/
on “Linux developer Seth Vidal killed in Hit and Run accident on his bike.”Submitted Opening Up Data Science with Data.world as a story · 9 points
HN discussionThey claim the slowness is due to Mutter. They say the are moving (back?) to Compiz, and that it improves performance a lot. http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/10/25/ubuntu-11-04-to-ship-uni...
Comment linking /2010/10/25/ubuntu-11-04-to-ship-unity/
on “Mark Shuttleworth announces Ubuntu 11.04 will use desktop version Unity”Submitted Ubuntu Community Manager Says FSF's Stallman Spreads FUD as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThis is actually a response to some Ubuntu contributors very publicly leaving the project, and not to criticism from users. This is the blog post that started it off: http://doctormo.org/2013/03/06/ubuntu-membership-2/ And here some the many responses in the past two days (remember, these are Ubuntu members, not random users), many of them agree that there's something wrong with the Ubuntu community of contributors:…
Comment linking /2013/03/08/thoughts-on-recent-community-concerns/
on “Mark Shuttleworth: Canonical leads Ubuntu, not 'your whims'”Submitted “Can we retrain the workforce as knowledge workers?” as a story · 5 points
HN discussionGreat reply in the comments from Ubuntu users here: http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/12/07/on-richard-stallman-and-...
Comment linking /2012/12/07/on-richard-stallman-and-ubuntu/
on “Ubuntu Community Manager: RMS's Post Seems a Bit Childish To Me and spreads FUD”Submitted Moving on from GitHub as a story · 4 points
HN discussionActual link rather than to Slashdot discussion: http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/12/07/on-richard-stallman-and-... The problem for me is that isn't addressed by this is the decision to make it default on in Ubuntu. That failure of judgement* means that I can't trust them not to change something else that I have to notice and find out how to easily disable. Easy to turn off is not good enough for such a feature. Edit to…
Comment linking /2012/12/07/on-richard-stallman-and-ubuntu/
on “Ubuntu Community Manager: RMS's Post Seems a Bit Childish To Me and spreads FUD”Submitted Mir in Ubuntu 13.10, Benchmarking, and More as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHere's a sort of reply to these sort of articles from Jono Bacon, Ubuntu's community manager: http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/11/06/the-intersection-of-qual...
Comment linking /2009/11/06/the-intersection-of-quality-and-expectations/
on “Hey Ubuntu, Stop Making Linux Look Bad”Submitted More Than The Default Install as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe title of this article doesn't conform with the facts. According to Jono Bacon[1]: "There is going to be some questions about this decision in relation to GNOME. I want to make something crystal clear: Ubuntu is a GNOME distribution, we ship the GNOME stack, we will continue to ship GNOME apps, and we optimize Ubuntu for GNOME. The only difference is that Unity is a different shell for GNOME, but we continue to s…
Comment linking /2010/10/25/ubuntu-11-04-to-ship-unity/
on “Ubuntu moves away from GNOME”Submitted Announcing openrespect.org as a story · 4 points
HN discussionUbuntu seem to be aware of these kinds of arguments: http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/03/23/ubuntu-community-team-op...
Comment linking /2010/03/23/ubuntu-community-team-opportunities-second-draft/
on “Unfair Internships”Submitted Open Source Protection as a story · 3 points
HN discussionVideo: http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/07/19/web-app-integration-in-u... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4267348
Comment linking /2012/07/19/web-app-integration-in-ubuntu/
on “Ubuntu adds WebApps to its Linux desktop”Submitted Travel Survival Guide as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jono Bacon: Supporting Software Freedom Conservancy as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Importance Of Application Developers To Ubuntu as a story · 3 points
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