Jono Bacon

Infobox Person
name = Jono Bacon


birth_date = Birth date and age|1979|9|17|mf=y
caption =
occupation = Ubuntu Community Manager
website = [http://www.jonobacon.org/ www.jonobacon.org]
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Jono Bacon (full name Jonathan Edward James Bacon [According to a June 17, 2007 podcast from LugRadio: http://www.lugradio.org/episodes/80] [According to his own web log: http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=576] ) is a writer and software developer based in the United Kingdom. Bacon started his work with the Linux community when he created the UK Linux website, Linux UK. When he left this project he moved on to join the KDE team, where he created the KDE::Enterprise website and KDE Usability Study. He has also been involved with helping charities using free software, as well as shaving off his beard for Amnesty International at LugRadio Live 2006. He is a participant in LugRadio and founded Wolverhampton Linux Users' Group. Additionally, he has created a heavy rock version of the Free Software Song.

Until September 1, 2006, Bacon worked for OpenAdvantage, funded by Advantage West Midlands, a Regional Development Agency. As of September 4, 2006, he works for Canonical as the Ubuntu Community Manager.

Journalism

As a professional journalist, Bacon has written for a variety of publications, including "Linux User and Developer", "Linux Format", "Linux Magazine", "MacTech", "MacFormat" and "PC Plus". In addition to these magazines, he has also written a number of books, including "Linux Desktop Hacks", "Building the Perfect Website with PHP and MySQL", "PHP and MySQL Web Applications: Building Eight Dynamic Web Sites" and he also co-wrote "The Official Ubuntu Book" (ISBN 0-13-243594-2) with Benjamin Mako Hill, Corey Burger, and Jonathan Jesse.

Public Speaking

Events spoken at include: Southern California Linux Expo, LinuxWorld, Linux User & Developer Conference, Blender Conference, IBM Linux Migration Seminar, European Friends Of O’Reilly, d:CODE, Association For Free Software Conference, SkyCon, UKUUG Conference West Midlands IT Association, OSS Watch Conference, IBM Developer Workshop, Manchester LUG, Nottingham LUG, Leeds LUG, Wolverhampton LUG, as well as both the 2005 and 2006 LUGRadio Live events of which he was a principal organiser. He also presented the Keynote at the "10 years KDE" anniversary conference in Ostfildern, Germany.

Music

Bacon is the vocalist and a rhythm guitarist in the "detuned chugging metal band" "Seraphidian". His website includes a number of songs that he has recorded separately from the band, including the aforementioned version of the Free Software Song. This is not where the music capabilities end, however. In addition to his music site, [http://www.recreantview.org/ RecreantView] , Bacon has inspired an audio recording application called Jokosher, named as the name "Jono Bacon" contains "No Bacon", hence the "Kosher" part of the Jokosher name. Bacon makes it clear that he did not name the application, as the community for Jokosher developed it to fulfil a need Jono had. Bacon is part of the development effort and regularly exhibits progress of the application at most Wolverhampton Linux User Group meetings.

In June 2008 Bacon started a new musical project called "Severed Fifth". The aim was to produce an album in his home studio and then to distribute the music in new ways. This was an experiment in how musicians can work in the internet era, outside the conventional music industry. The album is called "Denied By Reign" and incorporates various Heavy metal music styles.

References

External links

* [http://www.jonobacon.org/ Jono Bacon's website and blog]
* [http://www.recreantview.org/ Recreant View]
* [http://www.lugradio.org/ LUGRadio]
* [http://www.seraphidian.com/ Seraphidian's website]
* [http://tllts.org/mirror.php?fname=tllts_156-09-06-06.mp3 Linux Link Tech Show interview (audio), 2006]
* [http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1052 Jono's self-written brief history of his life, age 17 till time of writing]