Dear Bhaskar; There is also Edubuntu as well as Kubuntu variants of Ubuntu. Actually I was talking about the community around the Ubuntu implementation. You find a lot of very faithful users who have gathered around Ubuntu because of pride of ownership and what they can do on very simple equipment. There are a lot of Linux programmers who are about to come out of Africa and the first taste they have had is Ubuntu. Perhaps we should take a lesson from them and see how they got that following. Their code of conduct is part of the answer, but not all. There is follow-through and meetings done on the local and regional basis that keep the users fresh in the latest efforts and the projects that are under way.
Perhaps if we get creative with the web, we can parallel a lot of this activity with web presence and wiki help (like what we are doing), but we need to get the word out and demonstrate how people can use the technology to do useful things. Best wishes; Chris > Chris -- > > Although Ubuntu is an excellent Linux distribution (with commercial > support), and I use Kubuntu (Ubuntu with the KDE desktop) at home, there > was no intent on my part to sell anyone on Ubuntu Linux. It was the > Ubuntu code of conduct that I wanted to draw people's attention to. > > Did you tell Mark Shuttleworth about VistA? > > Regards > -- Bhaskar > > On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 12:18 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Bhaskar; >> >> You don't have to sell me on Ubuntu. I liked Mark Shuttleworth when >> I >> met him in Tunis. His group had a lot of things going for them and >> they >> are using their community wisely. >> >> > Ubuntu is one of the fastest growing Linux distributions. I was >> pointed >> > to the Ubuntu code of conduct for developers yesterday, and I felt >> that >> > it was well worth a read for anyone involved in software >> development: >> > http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct >> > >> > -- Bhaskar > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
