Aug 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 7 mos

• Investor and Advisor to Commsor, who are building a powerful community analytics platform.

Aug 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 7 mos

• Investor in Coda, who are building powerful document creation and management.

Jul 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 8 mos

• Advisor to Relate who are building a platform for bridging design and engineering.

Oct 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 5 mos

• Providing developer strategy and execution guidance to Moltin, who produce a powerful eCommerce API. Acquired by Elastic Path.

Jul 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 8 mos

• Provide guidance to data.world for how they build a global data collaboration platform and community.

Dec 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 3 mos

• Invested in Mautic who focus on email and marketing automation. Aquired by Acquia.

May 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 10 mos · Greater Boston Area

Nov 2015 – Jun 2016 · 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• At GitHub I was responsible for community strategy, product development, and relations. This involves evolving the platform for building strong technology communities, working with existing communities to help them be as effective and productive as possible, growing overall community strategy and relations internally, and publicly representing GitHub.

May 2015 – Present · 10 yrs 10 mos

• I write a monthly column for Forbes that covers technology, communities, and culture. See http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonobacon/

Feb 2015 – Present · 11 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• I write a monthly column called 'Six Degrees' for opensource.com about Open Source, technology, community management, and leadership. See it at https://opensource.com/tags/six-degrees-column

Jun 2014 – Nov 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• At XPRIZE I was responsible for defining community strategy across the organization and injecting community into every aspect of how prizes are picked, managed, funded, how teams work together (but can also compete), and wider community relations, growth, and messaging.

Feb 2012 – Present · 14 yrs 1 mo

• I am a member of the AlienVault Technical Advisory Board. Acquired by AT&T

Sep 2009 – Present · 16 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Providing community and collaboration services to help companies build productive, engaging communities. We help develop strategy, build concrete tactics and engagement, and develop skills in teams.
• Clients include Deutsche Bank, HackerOne, Intel, SAP, Sony Mobile, Samsung, GitLab, Mattermost, Santander, Linux Foundation, The Executive Centre, data.world, and many others.

Sep 2006 – May 2014 · 7 yrs 8 mos

• I work at Canonical to manage the world-wide Ubuntu developer, contributor and user community. I manage a team of four at Canonical split across the USA, Europe, and Middle East and the community itself numbers hundreds of thousands of contributors across a range of disciplines.
• The role involved project management, strategic planning, community growth, advocacy, engineering management, managing stakeholder expectations etc.

Aug 2004 – Aug 2006 · 2 yrs

• I worked at OpenAdvantage as an Open Source Consultant and worked with a large range of SMEs, Enterprises, Education and Government to help them understand and implement Open Source solutions. In my time at OpenAdvantage I consulted with over 100 organizations.

Sep 2003 – Aug 2004 · 11 mos

• Freelance journalist and consultant writing for over 12 publications and publishing three books. In addition to writing, my services included Open Source consultancy, web development and training.

Sep 2002 – Sep 2003 · 1 yr · Telford, United Kingdom

• I worked as a web developer in my third year at university as my work placement.
• As part of this work I worked on an online learning portal for studients called WOLF. I worked on this in ASP and SQL Server. In addition to this I performed a research study into productivity tooling in schools with the goal of exploring OpenOffice.org as an alternative.