Art Of Community Online

“I can’t think of a better guidebook than The Art of Community and your fearless tour guide, Jono Bacon. The second edition shares many other stories of how successful communities have been created and the choices made in doing so.“

– From the foreword by Chris Anderson, Editor of Wired magazine and author of The Long Tail.

“The success of the open source software movement demonstrates that no obstacle is insurmountable when people come together around a shared vision. In The Art of Community, Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon gives readers a profound glimpse into his hands-on experience as the orchestrator of one of the movement’s most powerful communities. His book offers valuable lessons on effective leadership and community building. Its compelling combination of useful theory, real-world best practices, and instructive personal anecdotes make it a richly comprehensive guide for both aspiring and experienced community leaders.“

– Ryan Paul, Ars Technica

“One thing that’s impressed me about Jono Bacon—something one can notice back when he and others were building a community around their pioneering Linux podcast—is that he simply gets the concept of community. It comes out in most everything he says and most every decision he makes. This is the kind of a person you want writing a book on the topic. Open source community building cannot be boiled down to a formula. It’s a constant effort, a soft science, an art, and Bacon is an ideal art teacher.“

–Dan Goldstein, Professor of Marketing, London Business School, and Principal Research Scientist, Yahoo! Research

“Jono Bacon truly understands communities, and, more importantly, how to build communities that thrive. This is the definitive guidebook to building successful communities—definitive because it is based on Jono’s extensive experience as community manager for Ubuntu, a product that inspires an Apple-esque devotion in very large part because of its vast and dedicated community. For developers and entrepreneurs who want to learn how to tap into the power of community, as Ubuntu has done so masterfully, this book is a must-read.“

– Ian Murdock, Founder of Debian and Vice President of Emerging Platforms at Oracle

“One hundred years ago, there was no such thing as a “product manager” or a discipline of “product management.” In The Art of Community, Jono Bacon takes the best and boldest step toward showing the emergence of another new discipline in business: community management. This is a non-optional, pragmatic business function that every executive needs to understand and invest in right now.”

— Sam Ramji, VP of Strategy, Apigee; President of the Board, Outercurve Foundation