Interviews at Linux Conference Australia

Netsnipe writes "In a few days time, DebianPlanet will be covering Linux Conference Australia (LCA) being hosted at the University of New South Wales by Linux Australia from January 17-20 in Sydney. The timing of this year's LCA has been coincidentally close to the release of the 2.4 Linux kernel two weeks ago and it is the first major gathering of important Linux developers of the year. In the spirit of the Debian project, we at DebianPlanet want to make our interviewing process as open as the Debian distribution is with their own reporting and processes. To further this aim we are inviting everyone to submit their own questions to our interviewees and share a major opportunity to learn where the Linux community is heading towards. Our question submission system is now open to all at our website. "

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Do these events show the media is too important...

[Lover's Arrival, The]

...for the Linux Community? Hi. I was wondering, how important is the press to Linux, and the dissemination of information? I (speaking as a newbie;-), have noticed that everybody seems to be getting really paranoid about what the press thinks about them, and the media in general! But, only a few years ago, it didn't really matter, because everyone who used Linux was involved in the development side, and was very knowledgible, right? Now, the Linux community is becoming more like those of other OS's as it gets larger, and it is regressing to the mean (A term I learned in Higher Mathematics, yuk!).

So it would seem that the media is becoming more important to the Linus Community, and so events like this are starting to appear. Is it healthy that the Linux Development be driven by the press and users? I thought that the success of Linux was due to the fact that it was developed for programmers by programmers, without referance to the media. I'm very interested in this. Thanks! ;)