openSuse's new community leader

[Max Spevack]

It looks like Joe Brockmeier has been hired as the openSuse community 
leader.

http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3725811

--Max

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

Max Spevack escribió:
>  It looks like Joe Brockmeier has been hired as the openSuse community
>
>  leader.
>
>  http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3725811
>
>  --Max
>  
Interesting read. I particularly liked the bits about an Open Statistics 
effort (I wonder if that would include Smolt) and when he plead for 
people to look beyond the Microsoft Covenant and see their 
contributions. I especially am thankful to Novell for the contributions 
made by some of their programmers (Xorg programmers) and AMD for 
providing high quality totally open and free drivers for AMD hardware, 
particularly graphics cards, with the radeonHD X11 driver.

[Rahul Sundaram]

Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:
>  Max Spevack escribió:
> > It looks like Joe Brockmeier has been hired as the openSuse community 
> > leader.
> >
> > http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3725811
> >
> > --Max
> >
>  
>  Interesting read. I particularly liked the bits about an Open Statistics 
>  effort (I wonder if that would include Smolt) and when he plead for 
>  people to look beyond the Microsoft Covenant and see their 
>  contributions. I especially am thankful to Novell for the contributions 
>  made by some of their programmers (Xorg programmers) and AMD for 
>  providing high quality totally open and free drivers for AMD hardware, 
>  particularly graphics cards, with the radeonHD X11 driver. 
FYI, I have mailed him about Smolt (As I have done previously to many 
SUSE folks) and got a positive response. Let em followup and see if we 
can take this forward.

Rahul

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

Rahul Sundaram escribió:
>  Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:
> > Max Spevack escribió:
> >> It looks like Joe Brockmeier has been hired as the openSuse 
> >> community leader.
> >>
> >> http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3725811
> >>
> >> --Max
> >>
> >
> > Interesting read. I particularly liked the bits about an Open 
> > Statistics effort (I wonder if that would include Smolt) and when he 
> > plead for people to look beyond the Microsoft Covenant and see their 
> > contributions. I especially am thankful to Novell for the 
> > contributions made by some of their programmers (Xorg programmers) 
> > and AMD for providing high quality totally open and free drivers for 
> > AMD hardware, particularly graphics cards, with the radeonHD X11 driver.
>
>  FYI, I have mailed him about Smolt (As I have done previously to many 
>  SUSE folks) and got a positive response. Let em followup and see if we 
>  can take this forward.
>
>  Rahul
>  
Awesome, Rahul! That's actually *very* nice to hear... I'm sure that if 
more consolidated data is gathered in terms of *real* usage numbers of 
Linux (along with what type of hardware is it being deployed) is a step 
in the right direction towards really accounting the ancient question 
"Who is using Linux, and how many users are there?". Especially useful 
for companies like Novell and Red Hat, I'm sure, but also for the 
desktop users, as this might trigger more availability to the platform 
of software that has no open source alternatives or cannot have an 
alternative (scientific, media, gaming), for the general public, plus 
the fact that Linux distributions are (at a long last!) getting to the 
point where standards are actually being followed and the conundrum that 
once was deploying applications is quickly being a thing of the past. 
Hopefully with support from other vendors as well as individuals, this 
will truly be a thing of the past.


Go, go Linux, and go go Fedora, for being a true proponent and leading 
distribution for Linux improvement, not only at the application level, 
but at the *social* level.