On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 10:48 +0000, Bruce Beardall wrote: > Hi Karl > > I couldn't tell you where to start with this (although it's an > interesting idea), just thought I'd drop a line and say welcome to the > adventure. > > Or should that be ubu-venture? > > Regards > > Bruce > > > 2009/1/21 Karl Beecher <[email protected]> > Hi, > > My name is Karl Beecher, I've been a Linux user for about 5 > years now > and a dedicated Ubuntu user for 3 of those. > > My personal passion right now is OSS research, and at the > moment I'm > finishing up my thesis on that topic at the University of > Lincoln. I've > done research into GNOME, KDE, and Debian, amongst other > things, and > I've worked with people (and continue to do so) involved in > the KDE > Research group (http://techbase.kde.org/Research ). > > Having seen other OSS projects involve themselves in research > like this, > I was intrigued that I was unable to find equivalent material > on the > Ubuntu site. > > And so, I would like to know if there are in fact any such > research > activities going on in Ubuntu, or, if not, whether this would > be of any > interest to others in the Ubuntu community. I realise this is > not the > perfect mailing list to address this question to, but I was > unable to > find a suitable one (apart from maybe ubuntu-qa), so I thought > I'd start > out by asking my fellow Brits. For a good example of what OSS > community > research might entail, check out the KDE link above. There are > also > other organizations and individuals too numerous to list. > > Again, apologies if this seems "off-topic", but if you know of > a more > suitable place to investigate or person to ask, please let me > know. > > Many thanks, > Karl Beecher > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
If you on irc then #ubuntu-quality might be a good place to start. Also there is a meeting tonight at 17:00 for ubuntu-qa -- Seek That Thy Might Know http://www.davmor2.co.uk
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