It’s amazing to see how far Ubuntu has come… I mean, I remember about 3 years ago when I was helping man a Gentoo booth at the LinuxWorld conference and there was this new Linux distro located across from the Gentoo booth called Ubuntu. I didn’t really remember them having a laptop, but they had a cool logo and all they did was scream “Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu” in a weird tribal voice when people walked by. I thought, ya these guys are going to go really far…
Anyway, those Ubuntu guys are pretty smart and understand how to build online open-source communities with their upcoming Ubuntu Open Week. Online workshops are a cool idea, especially when they are done in IRC. Looking at Ubuntu’s support network on IRC is amazing… ~1200 users at anytime helping each other out. It’s amazing feeling of jumping on IRC and asking a question and getting an instant response…
Ian, what do you think?