-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm fairly new to Ubuntu (little over a year) but I am surprised by the reaction to this idea.
Until yesterday when the initial email came in I had not heard of stack overflow, but it's an interesting web site that seems to cater to all things technical and geared towards programmers. As a programmer myself I welcome more resources, even ones that might challenge or compete with Ubuntu resources. Competition brings to light what is good, but more importantly what is better. If I could sum up the reaction I would say it's been overwhelmingly critical of stack overflow being closed source, which is an illogical argument since Ubuntu LoCo's use twitter and facebook, both of which are proprietary platforms. The argument that having additional resources "would spread Ubuntu thin" is just, well, also illogical. It's "Spread Ubuntu" not "Spread Ubuntu this much [ ] then stop." The first tutorial I followed to setup a HA cluster for VMware Server on Ubuntu was from How To Forge as no such tutorial existed on Ubuntu's plethora of web sites. Without that tutorial this user would still be using Windows or some other distribution. The success of that third-party tutorial was Ubuntu's success -- Ubuntu gained a new user, a new LoCo team member, and (hopefully one day) an official representative. Ubuntu in itself is convoluted to the new user. I had to register with launchpad, register with the forums, setup PGP to sign a Code of Conduct, etc. It didn't stop me nor would it stop anyone else that's truly interested in joining a LoCo, and just because there are additional resources on another web site doesn't mean Ubuntu users cannot benefit from them, and it doesn't mean that existing Ubuntu resources would suffer from it. Also why is it a problem that web sites monetize traffic from advertisements? I bet you all use Google, and not all projects have backing from zillionaires like Mark Shuttleworth. I truly don't see what all the fuss is about. The only complaint I have is the method in which the message was delivered. I don't think that the LoCo mailing lists are the most appropriate place to advertise third party web sites. In fact I thought this was another instance of spam getting through the system until I read it closely. Kindest Regards, Rich Gray (netritious) #ubuntu-us-tn / http://ubuntu-tennessee.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMQQG1AAoJEG+eQkpwMcno7O8IAJnY4nsRDTGiW5FFDyLCBjzo XffrYYtQ5m5NadI06P3xuAKGenjKpRm3PRNzm011iupMx7pXnZyUlVAMDNHUPq+Q H9eVKreO3CeVJH3lDshHfuh9Nz5gCevAHfY9aYc4lS0/JQw9N0ucIVE8DLUzQZoq Z0SJLzhKbfLqu9VHYa5rCNTatsxgLyCYu2dwtRozRnYeHH1dBeFek0lb2YRrEObP RS909WRggjGlWGuduJZL1s/51EbhZS6BocZXzUCgiaQEap6IWR6+mBm2Ifi8Icvy +aIdUIRc+x2z04S3gDMOotP7M2iWj9GkTF8FkXYC7Y2XUZqKw1TwT4KjRc+8xYc= =HLH+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
