Jonathan Edward James Bacon[4][5] is a writer and software engineer, originally from the United Kingdom, but now based in California.

When he left this project he moved on to join the KDE team, where he created the KDE::Enterprise website and KDE Usability Study, before shifting his attention to GNOME[6] Bacon started his career as a Linux journalist before moving on, in 2006, to work for OpenAdvantage, to help move organizations to Open Source solutions.

In addition to these magazines, he has also written a number of books, including "The Art of Community", "Linux Desktop Hacks",[12] "PHP and MySQL Web Applications: Building Eight Dynamic Web Sites"[13] and he also co-wrote "The Official Ubuntu Book" (ISBN 0-13-243594-2) with Benjamin Mako Hill, Corey Burger, and Jonathan Jesse.

Bacon was the co-founder of the LugRadio and Bad Voltage podcasts and was a co-host on FLOSS Weekly.

[15] From 2008 to 2012, he and Defiance guitarist Jim Adams ran the metal band Severed Fifth, which released three albums and distributed its music freely under a Creative Commons license.