Unleashing the Collective Potential: Open Source Community Building with Jono Bacon

In this engaging interview, Katherine Druckman and Jono Bacon delve into the world of open source community building. They discuss the importance of bridging gaps, valuing non-code contributions, and pushing the boundaries of collective potential. Jono shares success stories from Blender, opensource.com, and the CNCF, while also highlighting the need for better collaboration and breaking biases within the open source community. With a touch of humor and a glimpse into pop culture, this conversation leaves you inspired and excited about the future of open source.

Resources:

The Importance of Community, Jono Bacon, Community Leadership Core

Guest:

Jono Bacon is a leading community and collaboration speaker, author, and podcaster. He is the founder of Jono Bacon Consulting which provides community strategy/execution, workflow, and other services. He previously served as director of community at GitHub, Canonical, XPRIZE, and OpenAdvantage. His clients include Huawei, GitLab, Microsoft, Intel, Google, Sony Mobile, Deutsche Bank, Santander, HackerOne, Mattermost, SAP, FINOS Foundation, The Executive Center, data.world, Creative Commons, and others. He is the author of ‘People Powered: How communities can supercharge your business, brand, and teams’ and The Art of Community, a columnist for Forbes and opensource.com, founder of the Community Leadership Summit, founder of Conversations With Bacon, and co-founder of Bad Voltage. He is an advisor to AlienVault, Moltin, data.world, Mycroft, Open Networking Foundation, and Open Cloud Consortium.