Christer Edwards — Building Community

So Christer gave an interesting presentation here at UTOSC on building community. For those who don't know, Christer is the founder of the Ubuntu Utah team and co-founder of the US teams. I remember a few years ago when he showed up on the scene and starting the Utah team. The LoCo (Local Communtiy) groups in the US have exploding in the past year, and Christer headed up a large amount of it.

So in his presentation he talked about why Ubuntu has become such a big deal in the Linux world. He attributed it to community. He talked about how community is people. All the great Open Source projects have been community focused. The other distributions that are attached to commercial projects have a focus in the end on the bottom line. They're doing things that will help them, and then they think about the community. Ubuntu ...

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