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Our favorite spaceman steps down as Canonical CEO

BostonPeng — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:19:04 +0000

[I hoped to post this yesterday but it turns out Evolution is having issues parsing the Planet Ubuntu RSS 2.0 feed. When I switched to getting the RSS 1.0 feed I was able to snag some updates but I definitely need to file a bug on the Planet's RSS 2.0 feed. -Peng]

Yesterday the Ubuntu community got some surprising news when Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of the company that is behind the Ubuntu family of GNU/Linux distributions, announced that in March, 2010, he is stepping down as the top dog at Canonical.

From March next year, I’ll focus my Canonical energy on product design, partnerships and customers. Those are the areas that I enjoy most and also the areas where I can best shape the impact we have on open source and the technology market. I’m able to do this because Jane Silber, who has been COO at Canonical virtually from the beginning, will take on the job of CEO.

As Martin Owens on his blog, Mark will be taking “a more focused Steve Jobsian roll for Ubuntu.” Taking his place at the helm will be Jane Silber, Canonical’s Chief Operating Officer.

On behalf of Nanci and myself I want to join Martin in extending by congratulations to both Mark and Janet and wish them the very best for the future. I still think Ubuntu’s future is so bright I’m glad my glasses automatically darken in the sun.

Mark Shuttleworth steps down as CEO of Canonical

Benjamin Humphrey — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:36:02 +0000

Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu and Canonical has stepped down as CEO, to be replaced by Jane Silber.

He has taken on a more hands on approach to Ubuntu, and had this to say on his blog:

From March next year, I’ll focus my Canonical energy on product design, partnerships and customers. Those are the areas that I enjoy most and also the areas where I can best shape the impact we have on open source and the technology market. I’m able to do this because Jane Silber, who has been COO at Canonical virtually from the beginning, will take on the job of CEO.

Since Jane joined the company, she and I have shared the load of coordinating between the leaders of all the key teams that make up Canonical. We’ve been through various permutations as new initiatives needed different kinds of attention; Jane currently leads the Ubuntu One effort, for example.

I’ve become very passionate about design and quality, and want to spend more time figuring out how we harness the collaborative process to build better, more insightful products. I can’t think of a more interesting challenge, and luckily I couldn’t think of a better person to take over my formal management and leadership responsibilities at Canonical than Jane. We’ve worked together long enough, and closely enough, that I can be confident of continuity in the pieces I most care about and also excited about the ways in which I think Jane will raise the bar for the senior team. As a former VP at General Dynamics, Jane has more experience of large customers and large organisational leadership, which I see as essential for Canonical over the next five years. We are being welcomed as a partner and supplier to ever-larger businesses, and I want to make sure we are a robust answer to their needs.

Many folks in the community will know Jane from Ubuntu Developer Summits, and of course she’s well established as a leader at Canonical. In order to focus on the new role, we’ll be hiring for a COO and a new lead for Ubuntu One (both positions will be advertised publicly as well as within Canonical). There’s no rush, so we plan to coordinate things carefully and I expect I’ll be focused on my new role by March.

- Mark Shuttleworth

Mark Shuttleworth steps down as CEO of Ubuntu's Canonical

newideasconsult — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:16:39 +0000

Wow, what a day yesterday for the open source and linux community, waking up to the news that Mark Shuttleworth’s stepping down as CEO of Canonical. Having read his reasons for doing so after recovering from shock, I found them very compelling and potentially much more beneficial to the Ubuntu and Linux community than if he remained where he was. Mark’s a pioneer to me, has always been, someone who rolls up their sleeves and does the job that needs doing. Having him tied up in corporate affairs to the point where this distracts him from innovating, cannot be a good thing, and with Jane Silber, a very capable executive, there to take over the reigns at this time, I applaud him for making the change now. He is quite right that Canonical has reached a transition point and that a different kind of leadership may be needed to drive the revenues for the company and set the strategy into motion. Having Mark in the background where he can influence when needed is the cherry on top in my view!

Mark, you’ve always liked sailing off the ‘edge’ of the known world, so this should not have been a surprise to us I guess! Godspeed to you, Jane and Canonical, and we look forward to Ubuntu’s ongoing maturity!

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/295

Good Luck Mark and Jane

Martin Owens — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:59:52 +0000

I just heard the news from Mark’s own blog, he’s shifting from Canonical CEO to a more focused Steve Jobsian roll for Ubuntu. In his place will step Jane Silber.

I had the good fortune of working with Jane briefly on Ubuntu One, and she struck me as very capable and strong. An excellent choice to move the business forwards, to handle the day to day money making.

I don’t think anyone is particularly surprised that Mark wants to take a more hands on roll with the technical and design direction of Ubuntu, his very active participation in the Ayatana mailing list should have given a hint where the passion was. I figure that the day to day operations of Canonical were just getting in the way of the fun stuff.

I offer my congratulations and best of look to everyone.

Mark Shuttleworth stepping down as CEO at Canonical

Mesanna — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:43:11 +0000

Mark Shuttleworth has announced he is stepping down as CEO of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. When I first read this headline, I panicked a little and thought he was withdrawing his support from the Ubuntu project, but upon reading further, the opposite seems to be true. He plans to devote his energy to “product design, partnerships and customers“. The current Chief Operations Officer, Jane Silber, will take over as CEO in March next year.

To quote from Mark’s blog:

I’ve become very passionate about design and quality, and want to spend more time figuring out how we harness the collaborative process to build better, more insightful products. I can’t think of a more interesting challenge, and luckily I couldn’t think of a better person to take over my formal management and leadership responsibilities at Canonical than Jane.

I’m interested that he wants to devote more time to “partnerships” as I believe we can see the fruits of his labour here already. After five years, Ubuntu is becoming a real contender in the market. For example, Dell offers PCs and Laptops with Ubuntu pre-installed, as they have down for some time, however these models are no longer buried so deeply within their site that it is almost impossible to find them. Dell is giving Ubuntu a far higher profile than it has in the past. Also, when Windows 7 was released (a huge event in the computer world), many mainstream publications did a comparison between Ubuntu Karmic and Windows 7, as they were both released around the same time. Here in the UK, there was a review on the front page for the BBC News site for a few days, plus more coverage within the Technology News section. To be even mentioned in the same breath as Windows 7 shows just how mainstream Ubuntu is becoming. And late next year, there will be the release of Chrome Operating System – a collaboration between Canonical and Google – which will no doubt guarantee more publicity for Ubuntu. It will be interesting to see what other partnerships and developments come to fruition in the future.

I wish Mark every success in his new role at Canonical.

فروشگاه One Music اوبونتو

iceage2098 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:04:39 +0000

شاید خیلی ها وقتی کلمه Free Software رو می شنوند یاد نرم افزارهای مجانی یا رایگان می افتند. همینطور فکرهای غلط دیگری نظیر، تجاری نبودن نرم افزارهای آزاد را می کنند. اما در واقع این طور نیست، اگر این طور بود این همه شرکت که در حال تولید نرم افزارهای آزاد هستند می بایست ورشکست می شدند.

یکی از شرکت های تجاری و موفق شرکت کنونیکال است. اخیرا مدیر عامل شرکت کنونیکال، مارک شاتلورث ایجاد فروشگاه One Music در نسخهٔ بعدی سیستم عامل موفق اوبونتو یعنی 10.04 را اعلام کرده است. این فروشگاه به مانند فروشگاه iTunes شرکت Apple و Amazon.com است. تعریفی که در سایت Luanchpad برای فروشگاه One Music آمده است:

هدف فروشگاه موزیک Lucid، خرید موزیک از برنامه های پخش موزیک دسکتاپ است.

بنابراین نرم افزارهای آزاد هم می توانند تجاری باشند. فرق نرم افزارهای آزاد با نرم افزارهای غیرآزاد در احترامی است که نرم افزارهای آزاد به آزادی کاربران می گذارند است.

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Sim, o Ubuntu é Africano

snnangola — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:57:42 +0000

Parece ser engraçado, mas o facto do Ubuntu ter sido criado por Mark Shuttleworth um milionario Sul-Africano deixa ainda muita espinha na garganta de alguns. De repente argumentos como o facto dele ser branco começaram a vir a tona, dizem os ceticos que a sua origem é europeia, ora mas que argumento mais defasado no tempo. Esqueceram-se pois estes ‘profetas do ceticismo’ dos inumeros ‘Americanos de nacionalidade’, vindos da Alemanha, Israel, Russia, Asia etc. Até Werner Von Braun o homem dos misseis de Hitler tornou-se Americano e diretor da NASA.

Com o Mark é diferente. Nasceu e cresceu lá, fez dinheiro com software lá, vendeu a sua empresa a Verisign e criou o Ubuntu que vou vos dizer quando comecei a usar Linux em 2001 ainda nao existia como sistema operativo, mas apareceu e vincou provando a genialidade do seu criador.

Portanto, afirmações baratas só confirmam a falta de trabalho de quem mesmo as cria, o Ubuntu é Sul-Africano e ponto final.

A Tiny Tribute....

jiraaya — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:26:03 +0000

“Yeah I see it… Its there…. Don’t you see? its just there….” .. I guess these would have been your thoughts before you became one with the stars that you were so passionate about… Life is full of ironies …. Its weakness that shows you strength, Its fear that shows you courage…. Its death that shows us dreams…. Of course dreams don’t die don’t they?… You of all should know that, for you lived your dreams till the very end… Well, now its just a matter of time ain’t it not?….

Dedicated to the memory of Michelle Foster,

“Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.” – Nelson Mandla

Mark Shuttleworth "Ubuntu croît de 100% chaque année "

pong123 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:11:00 +0000

Retrouvez l’intégralité de son interview dans le jounal le monde .

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xollothnews — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:11:00 +0000

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5 more questions for Ubuntu on the eve of Karmic Koala

Ghabuntu — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:41:00 +0000

Tomorrow, Canonical is going to release Karmic Koala, the latest of the Ubuntu Linux OS. I have tried the beta and it is quite impressive, particularly Kubuntu, which comes with KDE as the default desktop. I have been very impressed with Linux in general and Ubuntu in particular with the strides made relative to MS Windows over the last few years.

Early last week, Workswithu published a list of 8 questions for Ubuntu’s Mark Shuttleworth. However, I still have some questions lingering in my mind which I would also like to put across to Mark and you in the hope that you would help clarify them for me.

1. Why does Canonical market Ubuntu more than it does Kubuntu?

Ubuntu comes with the default Gnome desktop environment which is not that polished and good looking though very resource friendly. This is what Canonical seems to be marketing feverishly though Kubuntu, which comes with the KDE is very polished, good looking and very attractive. Gnome has a long way to go to catch up with the more advanced KDE. People are likely to give Kubuntu a try than Ubuntu with its dull brown looks.

2. How many people REALLY use Ubuntu according to Canonical’s reckoning?

There is no definite number about the number of people who use the Ubuntu distro and its growth rate. How many people does Mark reckon are using his baby.

3. When will a person be able to use the GUI absolutely on Ubuntu without having to resort to the terminal at some point in time?

Ubuntu has done a lot to make the use of the OS less reliant on the terminal. You may disagree with me, but one thing is for sure; the terminal is a big determinant of whether people will use Ubuntu or not. When will Ubuntu finally make the terminal absolutely OPTIONAL so that some of us can go all out to recommend it to people without having to inform them of any terminal caveat.

4. This question was beautifully echoed by a reader on the 8 Workswithu list I talked about above and would

like to repeat it here. When will Ubuntu target more aggressively the more profitable Corporate Desktop deployments. Yes it probably has the most user base, but when will that user base comprise a significant number of corporate desktop deployments.

5. What does future does Mark envisage for Ubuntu relative to the launch of Windows 7 last week and the critical acclaim it has won over the world?

Does Ubuntu feel threatened? Confident? How does Mark think Ubuntu is going to scale that mega MS missile called Windows 7 to reach more people?

These are the fives questions that are nagging at me and I would love to hear your views on them.

Mark Shuttleworth kündigt Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" an

Christian Soeder — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:25:47 +0000

A cinco años de Ubuntu

estudiosud — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:13:30 +0000

Un 20 de Octubre del 2004 se libero la primera versión de Ubuntu Linux 4.10 Warty Warthog (nomenclatura año.mes), con este mensaje del excéntrico? millonario Mark Shuttleworth. Pero, Quien es este fulano? que es exactamente Ubuntu? Cual es su finalidad? Cual es el balance que hacemos en estos 5 años de “Linux for Human Beings”?

Mark Shuttleworth, es un millonario sudafricano nacido el 18 de Septiembre de 1973, que hizo su fortuna a partir de la creación de Thawte, una firma de certificados digitales líder a nivel mundial, desde el año 1990 esta involucrado con Linux (y participo en el proyecto Debian). En marzo del 2004 fundo Canonical Ltd. para la promoción de proyectos relacionados con el software libre.

Ubuntu es una distribución Linux basada en Debian, pensada para el usuario común y corriente; usted preguntara como y antes del 2004 Linux no era para un usuario común? Para quien era entonces?. La respuesta es que lamentablemente hasta ese momento siempre era necesario algún conocimiento previo para poder instalar un Linux, y Ubuntu quería cambiar eso, quería llevar Linux a aquellos que nunca lo habían usado, aquellos que solamente conocían Windows y que creían que una pc es Windows. Hicieron un gran esfuerzo para poder llevar una distro completa, compacta y que liberara al usuario de casi cualquier cuestión técnica. Una distro que tenga distintas versiones según cada necesidad (desktop, Server, netbooks, etc..). Para eso era necesario incluir mucho soporte para hardware, muchos scripts de autoconfiguración de servicios y programas, etc.. es decir muchísimo trabajo y lo lograron. Hasta incluyeron un servicio (ship-it, aun activo) que te envía el cd a tu casa gratuitamente!.

Su éxito lo demuestra no solo la predilección entre el publico, sino también el efecto que causo en la competencia, muchas distro que no se focalizaban en el usuario se ubuntusociaron (wtf, acabo de inventar una palabra); dijeron; “pucha! nos olvidábamos de que las pc también las usaban los mortales..” . Creo que la llegada de Ubuntu fue ampliamente favorable, desde este humilde blog saludamos y felicitamos por estos cinco años a todos aquellos que de una u otra manera han colaborado en ese proyecto, y ha ocho días de una nueva liberación (Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala) los invitamos a que continúen haciendo las cosas como hasta ahora. Bien.

Vos que opinas?

Feliz Cumpleaños Ubuntu!

onoametal — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:58:59 +0000

Un día como hoy (20 de Octubre) salió a a luz una de las distribuciones Linux mas difundidas en el mundo entero: Ubuntu. Algo de historia (tomado de Wikipedia):

“El 8 de julio de 2004, Mark Shuttleworth y su empresa Canonical Ltd. anunciaron la creación de la distribución Ubuntu bajo el eslogan “Linux for Human Beings“. Ésta tuvo una financiación inicial de 10 millones de dólares (US$). El proyecto nació por iniciativa de algunos programadores que se encontraban decepcionados con la manera de operar de Debian GNU/Linux, la distribución GNU/Linux sin ánimo de lucro más popular del mundo.

Tras formar un grupo multidisciplinario, los programadores decidieron buscar el apoyo económico de Mark Shuttleworth, un emprendedor sudafricano que vendió la empresa Thawte a VeriSign, cuatro años después de fundarla en el garaje de su domicilio, por 575 millones de dólares estadounidenses (US$).16

Shuttleworth vio con simpatía el proyecto y decidió convertirlo en una iniciativa auto sostenible, combinando su experiencia en la creación de nuevas empresas como esas. Mientras los programadores armaban el sistema, Shuttleworth aprovechó la ocasión para aplicar una pequeña campaña de mercadotecnia para despertar interés en la distribución sin nombre (en inglés: “the no-name-distro”).

Tras varios meses de trabajo y un breve período de pruebas, la primera versión de Ubuntu (Warty Warthog) fue lanzada el 20 de octubre de 2004.17″

Aqui pueden ver algo de historia de Shuttleworth, la persona detrás de Ubuntu:

Esto es solo un pequeño homenaje al mejor sistema operativo que he tenido la suerte de probar. Y definitivamente Octubre es un muy buen mes para hacer cosas . Recuerda que puedes ver los diferentes Wallpapers de Ubuntu aquí.

Up the Irons!!

Notes to myself..

zubinmehta — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:19:19 +0000

All the good ones are taken, cling to whatever you have!
Ignorance is bliss – try not to find out, not to know and lie down lazy
Beware of spontaneous human combustion
Stop incentivizing yourself for all the small things you accomplish
Follow your month-long time table for at least a day
Watching Seinfeld 8 times a day will not get you anywhere, Also in the end you will have no episodes left! Looks like it’s a road to perdition Think and stop right now..
You are a MSc chemie + 7 pointer and not Mark Shuttleworth
Mouli is still to treat you.
Get the tubelight fixed and hence create a mentally stimulating environment
Ask yourself, is it Tuesday yet? If no, find when is it coming? After Monday? If yes, do what you were supposed to do, do what everyone does on Tuesdays!
Dude, above all you should stop blogging and prepare for placements, else you will blog your entire life…Stop this here at once and get back to important things.

Mark Shuttleworth... lo que falla en GNU/Linux es la usabilidad

José Miguel — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:21:46 +0000

Mark Shuttleworth afirma que lo que falla en GNU/Linux es la usabilidad… Mi escueta opinión: S

Mark Shuttleworth en las conferencias LinuxCon celebradas en Portland

José Miguel — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:19:28 +0000

Mark Shuttleworth que participó recientemente en las conferencias LinuxCon celebradas en Portland, m

Why Matt Zimmerman must not quit Ubuntu.

Ghabuntu — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:15:00 +0000

In the wake of the controversy surrounding the keynote address by Mark Shuttleworth at the Linuxcon 2009, the CTO of Canonical, Matt Zimmerman went public in voicing his opinion, suggesting that the remark his boss made was sexist. This has led to calls for him to say goodbye to Canonical because he had gone public with his views about his boss’ remark. I have a problem with such calls and really think he should not be given the boot nor pressured into leaving Canonical and for that matter Ubuntu.

First of all, whether the remark in question was sexist or not, I think is irrelevant in the sense that whatever one says is always bound to be interpreted by people in various ways. And Mark Shuttleworth, being who he is, is more prone to such human idiosyncracies. So when Matt went public with his opinion, I was not surprised he had also interpreted his boss’ speech as such. However, I am surprised at the call for his resigantion from Canonical.

Canonical, and for that matter Ubuntu, pride themselves on certain philosophies that I believe must be upheld at all times, the theme of this philosophy being tolerance and humanity towards each other. How then can such a company throw out or pressure someone to resign because he had disagreed with his boss albeit publicly?

Matt did not make his statement on behalf of Canonical, he made his statement as an individual. Yes he should have waited to watch the video again and be sure of the context in which his boss made the remark before going public. Yes he should have exercised a little restraint in his rush to air his opinions, but that is also precisely the reason why I think Canonical should not fire him nor bring any pressure to bear on him to resign.

This is an opportunity for Mark Shuttleworth and the team over at Canonical to prove to the world that they do stand by the philosophies that they tout. They should prove to the world the level of tolerance they have for all people and how they are willing to still be with people who disagree with them. This will go a long way to help further the growth of Ubuntu for people will know that yes, the philosophies behind it are not empty cliches. Firiing Matt Zimmerman or bringing pressure to bear on him will not do any good to Ubuntu or Canonical: it will only serve to tell people how intolerable the people behind the Ubuntu distro are.

Do you think Matt Zimmerman should quit Canonical? Please share your thoughts.

A detailed analysis of Mark Shuttleworths Linuxcon 2009 keynote address.

Ghabuntu — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:59:00 +0000

I came across this blogpost on LinuxPlanet where the author has deeply dissected the speech delivered by Shuttleworth at the Linuxcon 2009. The three things he stressed on were cadence, design and quality. Things I have also been talking about for sometime now. Below are excerpts from the blogpost with a link to hte full article.

“Mr. Shuttleworth’s three points are Cadence, Quality, Design, and they are all part of coordinated vision for the future of Linux development. It is a very different vision from how it’s done now. The current state is very developer-centric. Software developers start and maintain projects, and the quality, responsiveness, and direction of projects are mainly controlled by the developers. Mark’s vision is broader and more ambitious:

“People often ask me why I’m so fascinated by Free software , and why I put so much time, energy, and money into Ubuntu…I really believe the Free software process is the right way to build software. Not only that, but there is the potential, if we raise our game… that we could end up defining the experience that the average person has whenever they turn on a computer.”

Continue reading here.

Dear Mark Shuttleworth

julielavoie — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:49:15 +0000

Dear Mark Shuttleworth,

“Women” is not a synonym for “people who don’t use, understand or create technology”.

Having used Linux for about 10 years, and being a current Ubuntu user, it’s really disappointing to hear a major figure like you, head of the Ubuntu project, say that “Linux is hard to explain to girls”.

At the University of Waterloo, Prabakhar Ragde gives a lecture to first-year computer science students about the history of computer science. He talks a lot about Alan Turing, the father of computer science, and he mentions that Turing committed suicide at 41 because he was persecuted for being gay.

Then he asks us: how much further would computer science have advanced if Turing had lived?

We can ask ourselves: what other talents are being lost to computer science, as we speak, because of prejudice? Comments like yours make existing female open source developers feel like they don’t belong there, and they make new women who are thinking of maybe giving it a try, feel like they won’t be welcome at the boy’s club, so why bother. Is the field so full up on genius and talent that it’s worth dismissing more than half the world’s population as potential developers, contributors and users?

I would urge you to reconsider this unfortunate remark, and issue an apology.

–

Chris Bell has a great blog post about this topic.

Video- Mark Shuttleworth keynote address at Linuxcon 2009

Ghabuntu — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:55:00 +0000

The keynote address delivered by Mark Shuttleworth which has generated so much controversy has now been released on video on the Linux Pro mag site. Watch it and then let’s talk about the phrase “…hard to explain to girls” which has been at the center of the storm. Let’s discuss more on the letter I wrote to Mark Shuttlworth a while ago. Enjoy.

An open letter to Mark Shuttleworth - Be a man and say SORRY!

Ghabuntu — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:44:00 +0000

Hi Mark. I won’t bother asking how you are doing. In case you have not been told or heard of it, there is a needless flame war going on in your community. This was started by you when you said something is “hard to explain to girls.” I wonder what that is.

You know, I have not seen the transcript of your keynote address at LinuxCon fest 2009, neither has anyone explained the context in which you made that statement. However, that is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. The long and short of it all is that your comment did not go down well with people, and some are really fuming about that particular statement. I for one, did not have any problem with your comment, but now that it seems it had not settled down well with people, I had thought you would just issue a simple statement of sincere apology.

However, I was very much disappointed this afternoon when I read here that you had flatly refused to do such a thing. You see Mark, apologizing does not mean accepting or acknowledging defeat. Neither does it mean you were wrong and the other party was right. Far from that. On the contrary, it means you are a man who is capable of being sensitive to the feelings of others around you and you are willing to do all you can not to hurt those feelings. If I am right, you are the founder of a whole community that prides itself on being humane to others, and have won for yourself millions of admirers from all over the world. You have succeeded where most others failed.

Your massive community of Ubuntu users look so much up to you. You are charismatic and I like that about you. You are steadily building an empire around that magnificent OS called Ubuntu. That is not a bad thing. However, I fear that your apparent persona of standing your grounds no matter what will trickle down to your followers in the community, who will in turn begin to be just like you- unyielding. That I fear is going to be the beginning of the end of your empire.

If I read right, one of the the cardinal codes of the Ubuntu community that you are involved with reads

“Be respectful. The Ubuntu community and its members treat one another with respect. Everyone can make a valuable contribution to Ubuntu. We may not always agree, but disagreement is no excuse for poor behavior and poor manners. We might all experience some frustration now and then, but we cannot allow that frustration to turn into a personal attack. It’s important to remember that a community where people feel uncomfortable or threatened is not a productive one. We expect members of the Ubuntu community to be respectful when dealing with other contributors as well as with people outside the Ubuntu project, and with users of Ubuntu.”

How then can you of all people in this community allow yourself to be the center of so much controversy when a simple, sincere statement of apology could have prevented everything. Mark, I won’t take much of your time because I know how busy you are. All I humbly ask you to do is to be the nice, warm, charismatic and charming leader you are by saying a simple sorry to those who felt offended by your finding it “hard to explain things to girls.” Remember, chief among the reasons why you have reached where you are today is because you succeeded in winning the hearts of people. Now do not let this erode your gains over the past several years.

It’s not too late Mark, and forget whether you were misquoted or not, taken out of context or not, you need to be the man I know you to be and just make a sincere apology to all those wonderful people out there who felt offended. Go Mark, be a man and say SORRY!

Your friend and unofficial Ubuntu analyst

Luqman

What did Mark Shuttleworth say at Atlanta Linux Fest 2009?

Ghabuntu — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:24:00 +0000

I am just wondering what Mark Shuttleworth said at the Atlanta Linux Fest 2009 when he delivered his keynote address which has sparked a furore in some corners of the blogosphere.

He is alleged to have made some sexist remark about the women which from the letter in the above link, did not go down with lots of people. I have searched for the transcript of his address but have not found it. I am just curious to know in which context he made that statement.

I am one of those who have wondered out loud about the participation of women in FOSS. There is no doubt that more men are involved in FOSS than women. However, the contribution that women can make to FOSS can simply not be overemphasized.

It is in this regard that I humbly call on all the wonderful ladies out there who felt offended by Mark Shuttleworths comment to keep their cool and not take his personal remarks to mean that of men in general, for that is the impression I got from this blog post by Srlinux on Tuxmachines.

Also, I would humbly implore that Mark’s comments are not taken as an excuse to initiate any form of boycott Ubuntu campaign for Ubuntu is way bigger than one individual and thus should not be made to suffer for his errors.

The future of FOSS depends a lot on the active participation of more women and comments that have the tendency to inflame passions especially among women should be avoided especially by people of Mark’s caliber. To all the women out there, I say we really appreciate your involvement in the FOSS movement and are deeply sorry for any offense you might have taken in his remarks.