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People Powered: How Communities Can Supercharge Your Business, Brand, and Teams by Jono Bacon

Airbnb, barriers to entry, behavioural economics, Black Lives Matter, blockchain, bounce rate, Cass Sunstein, Charles Lindbergh, content marketing, Debian, Firefox, gamification, if you build it, they will come, IKEA effect, imposter syndrome, Internet Archive, Jono Bacon, Kickstarter, Kubernetes, lateral thinking, Mark Shuttleworth, Minecraft, minimum viable product, more computing power than Apollo, planetary scale, pull request, Richard Stallman, Richard Thaler, Salesforce, Scaled Composites, sexual politics, Silicon Valley, SpaceShipOne, TED Talk, the long tail, Travis Kalanick, Virgin Galactic, Y Combinator

Praise for Jono Bacon and People Powered If you want to tap into the power that communities can bring to businesses and teams, there is no greater expert than Jono Bacon. —Nat Friedman, CEO, GitHub If you want to unlock the power of collaboration in communities, companies, and teams, Jono Bacon should be your tour guide, and People Powered should be your map. —Jamie Smith, Former Deputy Press Secretary to Barack Obama Technology tears down the barriers of collaboration and connects our communities—globally and locally. We need to give all organizations and developers the tools to build and foster this effort.

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—Jim Whitehurst, President and CEO, Red Hat; Author, The Open Organization In my profession, building networks is all about nurturing relationships for the long term. Jono Bacon has authored the recipe on how to do this, and you should follow it. —Gia Scinto, Head of Talent, Y Combinator Continuity Communities are the future of business, technology, and collaboration. Jono Bacon’s experience, approach, and candor is critical reading for harnessing this future. —Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, The Linux Foundation If you want to harness the power of your customers, People Powered should be the first book you open. Highly recommended. —Whitney Bouck, COO, HelloSign Jono Bacon has spent years perfecting the craft of building productive communities.

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Nick Saint, “If You’re Not Embarrassed by the First Version of Your Product, You’ve Launched Too Late,” Business Insider, November 13, 2009, https://www.businessinsider.com/the-iterate-fast-and-release-often-philosophy-of-entrepreneurship-2009-11. 7: GLUE PEOPLE TOGETHER TO CREATE INCREDIBLE THINGS 1. “Miles Davis Quote,” AZ Quotes, accessed November 30, 2018, https://www.azquotes.com/quote/636581. 2. Mike Shinoda, email interview with Jono Bacon, October 28, 2018. 3. Ali Velshi, email interview with Jono Bacon, November 3, 2018. 4. Jono Bacon, “Global Learning XPRIZE,” Indiegogo, last updated April 9, 2015, https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/global-learning-xprize#/. 5. Richard Read, “Garmin Launches Cryptic Teaser Campaign, We Unravel It, Motor Authority, August 19, 2011, https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1065202_garmin-launches-cryptic-teaser-campaign-we-unravel-it. 6.

The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation by Jono Bacon

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The Hatfields and McCoys have nothing on alt.tv.doctorwho. Communities are tough enough to maintain when you’re all in the same room; how much harder is it to build, maintain, and nurture a community online? That’s why this book is such a boon to those who run communities and the rest of us who participate in them. Jono Bacon has firsthand experience with managing a group of the most bloody-minded and independent people on the planet: open source programmers. The information in this book has been forged in the white-hot crucible of free software. You don’t get tougher than that. My experience with online forums began 25 years ago when I started a bulletin board for Macintosh users called MacQueue.

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Building a community is a complex business, though. It involves careful planning and consideration, but also the freedom to empower your community members to accomplish things that you never dreamed of. I can’t think of a better guidebook than The Art of Community and your fearless tour guide, Jono Bacon, for helping you navigate this journey. In the first edition of the book, Jono created a strong foundation of knowledge for building and empowering communities. The second edition not only refines and extends this body of work, but also shares many other stories of how successful communities have been created and the choices made in doing so.

Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World by Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler

3D printing, additive manufacturing, adjacent possible, Airbnb, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Amazon Web Services, Apollo 11, augmented reality, autonomous vehicles, Boston Dynamics, Charles Lindbergh, cloud computing, company town, creative destruction, crowdsourcing, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, data science, deal flow, deep learning, dematerialisation, deskilling, disruptive innovation, driverless car, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, Exxon Valdez, fail fast, Fairchild Semiconductor, fear of failure, Firefox, Galaxy Zoo, Geoffrey Hinton, Google Glasses, Google Hangouts, gravity well, hype cycle, ImageNet competition, industrial robot, information security, Internet of things, Jeff Bezos, John Harrison: Longitude, John Markoff, Jono Bacon, Just-in-time delivery, Kickstarter, Kodak vs Instagram, Law of Accelerating Returns, Lean Startup, life extension, loss aversion, Louis Pasteur, low earth orbit, Mahatma Gandhi, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, Mars Rover, meta-analysis, microbiome, minimum viable product, move fast and break things, Narrative Science, Netflix Prize, Network effects, Oculus Rift, OpenAI, optical character recognition, packet switching, PageRank, pattern recognition, performance metric, Peter H. Diamandis: Planetary Resources, Peter Thiel, pre–internet, Ray Kurzweil, recommendation engine, Richard Feynman, ride hailing / ride sharing, risk tolerance, rolodex, Scaled Composites, self-driving car, sentiment analysis, shareholder value, Sheryl Sandberg, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, skunkworks, Skype, smart grid, SpaceShipOne, stem cell, Stephen Hawking, Steve Jobs, Steven Levy, Stewart Brand, Stuart Kauffman, superconnector, Susan Wojcicki, synthetic biology, technoutopianism, TED Talk, telepresence, telepresence robot, Turing test, urban renewal, Virgin Galactic, Wayback Machine, web application, X Prize, Y Combinator, zero-sum game

Add rules that require collaboration—for example, a project must be viewed by a specific number of community members before being accepted as a competition entry. Equally important, challenges are necessary because they help you keep “entitlement” to a minimum. “The goal of every community is to create a sense of belonging,” says Jono Bacon, the Senior Director of Community at XPRIZE. But there’s a flip side: the opposite of belonging is ‘entitlement.’ Many communities struggle with entitlement, and it can cause them to become stale when entitled members slow down the pace of innovation. All communities are at risk of becoming stale when they don’t challenge themselves.”24 4.

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module=Static&d1=support&d2=ratings. 20 Carolyn Johnson, “Thorny research problems, solved by crowdsourcing,” Boston Globe, February 11, 2013, http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2013/02/11crowdsourcing-innovation-harvard-study-suggests-prizes-can-spur-scientific-problem-solving/JxDkOkuIKboRjWAoJpM0OK/story.html. 21 AI with Narinder Singh, 2014. 22 AI with Chris Anderson, 2013. 23 Richard Millington, “7 Contrary Truths About Online Communities,” Feverbee.com, September 22, 2010, http://www.feverbee.com/2010/09/7truths.html. 24 AI with Jono Bacon, 2014. 25 Jolie O’Dell, “10 Fresh Tips for Community Managers,” Mashable, April 13, 2010, http://mashable.com/2010/04/13/community-manager-tips/. 26 Seth Godin, “Why You Need to Lead A Tribe,” Mixergy.com, January 13, 2009, http://mixergy.com/interviews/tribes-seth/. 27 AI with Better Blocks founder Jason Roberts, 2014.

The Debian Administrator's Handbook, Debian Wheezy From Discovery to Mastery by Raphaal Hertzog, Roland Mas

bash_history, Debian, distributed generation, do-ocracy, en.wikipedia.org, end-to-end encryption, failed state, Firefox, Free Software Foundation, GnuPG, Google Chrome, Jono Bacon, MITM: man-in-the-middle, Neal Stephenson, NP-complete, precautionary principle, QWERTY keyboard, RFC: Request For Comment, Richard Stallman, Skype, SpamAssassin, SQL injection, Valgrind, web application, zero day, Zimmermann PGP

Ubuntu, Florent Zara of LinuxFr.org, Manu of Korben.info, Frédéric Couchet of April.org, Jake Edge of Linux Weekly News, Clement Lefebvre of Linux Mint, Ladislav Bodnar of Distrowatch, Steve Kemp of Debian-Administration.org, Christian Pfeiffer Jensen of Debian-News.net, Artem Nosulchik of LinuxScrew.com, Stephan Ramoin of Gandi.net, Matthew Bloch of Bytemark.co.uk, the team at Divergence FM, Rikki Kite of Linux New Media, Jono Bacon, the marketing team at Eyrolles, and numerous others that I have forgotten (sorry about that). I would like to address a special thanks to Roland Mas, my co-author. We have been collaborating on this book since the start and he has always been up to the challenge. And I must say that completing the Debian Administrator's Handbook has been a lot of work… Last but not least, thank you to my wife, Sophie.