Let's argue the opposite. How much code do our local closed source defenders contribute? Or would they be mostly just commissioned resellers occasionally offering some "additional" vendor lockin services at sizable personal incomes/fees? On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:45 PM, saidimu apale <saidimu@gmail.com> wrote:
Very true. But the code is the foundation of all other involvements. No code, no community. Bad code, bad community. And since this is (mostly?) a developer list, I assume (perhaps wrongly) that that is where people interests/abilities lie. I like what you're saying: what other non-coding opportunities exist? I hope documentation isn't one of them cuz I don't know any one who likes doing it. Perhaps filing good bug reports? Helping out in newbie forums? saidi
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Gakuru Alex <alexgakuru.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:07 PM, saidimu apale <saidimu@gmail.com> wrote:
I once asked the same question to Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu's "benevolent dictator" ( the occasion was UbuntuBelowZero developer preparations for Ubuntu 6.04). I'd noticed that 99.9% of the developers in the room were white so I asked him how it was that an "African" distro (as it was being marketed then) had virtually no African developers.
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