hello fedora list,
i have been around the linux/open source community for a long time. i haven't been on this list for a while however. let me get to the point. i am a freelance writer for CNET/Techrepublic. i am currently putting together an article "10 Unsung Linux Heros" and am looking for good suggestions for candidates from this and other Linux-related lists.
would anyone care to contribute ideas?
thank you so much (and sorry for being off topic).
On Monday 29 December 2008 20:32:14 jackie wallen wrote:
hello fedora list,
i have been around the linux/open source community for a long time. i haven't been on this list for a while however. let me get to the point. i am a freelance writer for CNET/Techrepublic. i am currently putting together an article "10 Unsung Linux Heros" and am looking for good suggestions for candidates from this and other Linux-related lists.
would anyone care to contribute ideas?
thank you so much (and sorry for being off topic).
-- Jack Wallen, Jr
"Idealists...foolish enough to throw caution to the winds...have advanced mankind and have enriched the world." Emma Goldman
Well, I would say, in a Fedora list you would get a lot of responses for Fedora! And I, indeed, think Fedora is the ideal distribution for me and it just works the way I want it to work. One thing I really like about it is that it's bleeding edge and all the new stuff (NetworkManager, Plymouth, Smolt, etc.) come to Fedora first and then make their way to other distributions.
Right now I'm in a rush and I have to go, but I will get back to you later :)
jackie wallen wrote:
hello fedora list,
i have been around the linux/open source community for a long time. i haven't been on this list for a while however. let me get to the point. i am a freelance writer for CNET/Techrepublic. i am currently putting together an article "10 Unsung Linux Heros" and am looking for good suggestions for candidates from this and other Linux-related lists.
would anyone care to contribute ideas?
thank you so much (and sorry for being off topic).
I don't know any individual I would consider an unsung hero.
However, I would suggest there are many unsung heros in the linux world.
The people who help others day in and day out on this list are unsung heros. Sharing their knowledge with all and sundry for only the satisfaction of doing it.
The people who develop all the nuts and bolts that make linux the everything and the kitchen sink of operating systems are unsung heros. Not the headliners only, but all the people in the trenches.
Some especially unsung heros are the people who maintain the documentation, build the wikis, create the visual effects, maintain the websites, resolve the problem tickets.
Linux is an ecosystem, and while there might be some folks at the top of the celebrity chain, everyone who contributes is one of your unsung heros.
Linux is an ecosystem, and while there might be some folks at the top of the celebrity chain, everyone who contributes is one of your unsung heros.
Well said.
And there are as you say a lot of them who are not code writers. To non English communities there are translator heroes, there are mailing list wizards and far more.
I wonder how many kernel developers know what Matti Aarnio does ;)
Alan