Re: Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-09-22 Thread Przemek Kulczycki
2008/8/28 Przemysław Kulczycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > A recent LWN article has picked up the issue of Ubuntu's contributions > to FLOSS: > http://lwn.net/Articles/294542/ > Check it out. > > Also I'm reminding you that the UbuntuContributions page is still open > for additional content: > https://w

Re: Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-08-28 Thread Przemysław Kulczycki
A recent LWN article has picked up the issue of Ubuntu's contributions to FLOSS: http://lwn.net/Articles/294542/ Check it out. Also I'm reminding you that the UbuntuContributions page is still open for additional content: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Website/Content/UbuntuContributions Feel free to add

Re: Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-06-12 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 01:29:29PM +0200, Thomas Novin wrote: > On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 14:00 +0200, Przemysław Kulczycki wrote: > > One of the often accusations against Ubuntu is that it only takes from > > other projects (Debian, Red Hat, Novell/Suse...) and doesn't give back > > anything. Ubuntu

Re: Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-06-12 Thread Luke L
A former Canonical employee is mentioned in that article as a major maintainer. > > I just read an interesting article on Phoronix and while looking at the > > contributors you can see that Ubuntu/Canonical isn't mentioned at all. > > > > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=x_serv

Re: Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-06-12 Thread Jonathan Jesse
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Thomas Novin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 14:00 +0200, Przemysław Kulczycki wrote: > > One of the often accusations against Ubuntu is that it only takes from > > other projects (Debian, Red Hat, Novell/Suse...) and doesn't give back > > anythi

Re: Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-06-12 Thread Thomas Novin
On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 14:00 +0200, Przemysław Kulczycki wrote: > One of the often accusations against Ubuntu is that it only takes from > other projects (Debian, Red Hat, Novell/Suse...) and doesn't give back > anything. Ubuntu should make it more visible for others to see what does > it contrib

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-06-09 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 09/06/08 at 16:02 +0200, Przemysław Kulczycki wrote: > Matthew Nuzum pisze: >> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:36 AM, Przemysław Kulczycki >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now let's get to the point. > One of the often accusations against Ubuntu is that it only takes from > other > proj

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-06-09 Thread Przemysław Kulczycki
Matthew Nuzum pisze: On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:36 AM, Przemysław Kulczycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now let's get to the point. One of the often accusations against Ubuntu is that it only takes from other projects (Debian, Red Hat, Novell/Suse...) and doesn't give back anything. Ubuntu should

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-06-04 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Bryce Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 3. $ sudo apt-get build > >Run from within the source tree, this wrappers all the work of >generating a patch from the current source tree's changes and adding >it to the package's patch management system (or

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-06-04 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 11:11:05PM +0800, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Bryce Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It could perhaps make things even easier for developers, but thats > >> another kettle of fish. > > > > I'd be interested in hearing your further

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-06-04 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 04.06.2008 um 17:11 schrieb John McCabe-Dansted: > In principle, developing could be as simple as doing "dev edit > " finding whatever you wanted to change, perhaps > changing a constant like MAX_COL from 80 to 160 in your favourite > editor, doing a "dev test-sandbox", and perhaps a "dev insta

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-06-04 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Bryce Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 06:11:10PM +0800, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: >> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Markus Hitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > - Even if it's distribution specific it's still a commitment to the >

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-05-29 Thread Jonathan Jesse
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Onno Benschop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 28/05/08 08:30, Onno Benschop wrote: > > On 27/05/08 18:11, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > > > >> To my mind the biggest contribution downstream projects make is saving > >> developers time. My experience suggests that it

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-05-27 Thread Onno Benschop
On 28/05/08 08:30, Onno Benschop wrote: > On 27/05/08 18:11, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > >> To my mind the biggest contribution downstream projects make is saving >> developers time. My experience suggests that it if you are a developer >> and you want to spend less time fighting your distro an

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-05-27 Thread Onno Benschop
On 27/05/08 18:11, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > To my mind the biggest contribution downstream projects make is saving > developers time. My experience suggests that it if you are a developer > and you want to spend less time fighting your distro and more time > doing actual productive coding, then

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-05-25 Thread Matthew Nuzum
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:36 AM, Przemysław Kulczycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Now let's get to the point. >>> One of the often accusations against Ubuntu is that it only takes from >>> other >>> projects (Debian, Red Hat, Novell/Suse...) and doesn't give back >>> anything. >>> Ubuntu should

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-05-23 Thread Przemysław Kulczycki
Nick Ali pisze: On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Przemysław Kulczycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [disclaimer] I don't know which list is the best to discuss it because there is no specific list for discussing Ubuntu's website, so sorry for the duplication. When the thread expands someone could d

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-05-19 Thread Nick Ali
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Przemysław Kulczycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [disclaimer] > I don't know which list is the best to discuss it because there is no > specific list for discussing Ubuntu's website, so sorry for the duplication. > When the thread expands someone could decide to ke

Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-05-19 Thread Przemysław Kulczycki
[disclaimer] I don't know which list is the best to discuss it because there is no specific list for discussing Ubuntu's website, so sorry for the duplication. When the thread expands someone could decide to keep it on only one list. Now let's get to the point. One of the often accusations ag