ZaReason—request just about any Linux distro you want, even if it's not in the drop-down field (my fave—the only OEM I've found selling systems with KDE and Xfce based distros in addition to GNOME ones)
The other thing that needs to be accounted for is the options women have that men don't. Women see having a family or having a career as a choice. They can do one, the other, or both. Men don't get to view that as a choice. For men, they must have a career, period. If they want to also be a father, they do it after they come home from the office.
BS. If a man wants to be a stay at home dad, he absolutely can. Now, some of his friends might give him crap for it, because it's not "manly" to have your wife being the breadwinner, but your comment just reiterates that sexist assumption and perpetuates the problem.
At the Ubuntu Developer Summit last November, one of the Ubuntu ARM guys did a plenary presentation where the machine hooked to the projector was an ARM machine running Ubuntu. I also saw Jonathan Riddell looking for a USB mouse so he could install Kubuntu on an ARM machine he'd been handed.
If the teacher doesn't make it any *more* fun to learn, what good's it going to do? Fine, instead of zoning out staring at my laptop, I'll zone out staring at that funny bit of plaster in the corner or looking out the window.
No, we pay to be told which pages of a textbook are relevant and take exams on the material. Classes are a waste of time. Skip them all, and read the textbook, and you'll learn it better than you will just listening to your professor gab. Twice now, I've discovered when reading the textbook just before an exam that hey, this stuff *can* be interesting, it's just the professors that make it boring! Stupid attendance points.
One exception: Gabe Parmer, GWU's new Operating Systems professor, can make confusing things like concurrency (spinlocks, semaphores, etc.) and page caches easy. After spending only one day on concurrency in his class, I got it. I overheard one student tell him that in a computer architecture class they'd spent 2 weeks on page caches without it making sense, but he'd just taught it in one day, and it made perfect sense. Such teachers are rare.
The answer is never "no" only "not yet" and pretty much always includes an explanation of what's missing. Often what's missing is documentation of what they've done, particularly testimonials that say you're helpful either on your wiki page or in the IRC meeting where the interview and vote happen. "Get a few more referrals and come back in a month or two" is a very common response.
So, what you're saying is, all us Ubuntu Developers are incompetent with the command line, simply by virtue of being *Ubuntu* Developers and not Debian Developers? What about the ones that were Debian Developers before becoming Ubuntu Developers, like Colin Watson and Matt Zimmerman? Did they forget how to use a shell when they started working for Canonical?
And he's not stepping down from Ubuntu or from the Technical Board or from the Community Council. He's just not going to be the CEO of Canonical anymore. He's still up at the top for Ubuntu. It just highlights the distinction between Canonical and Ubuntu.
It was intended to be read as "we expect Mark to do what's right"...as in "we're holding him to a higher standard" (that standard being the Leadership Code of Conduct). However, it tended not to be read that way, so it was removed.
Let me know if you figure out the sizing on that shirt. There's a shirt size chart http://shop.canonical.com/popup_sizes.php?pID=32 which, as you can see, doesn't list the same sort of sizes. That shirt comes in XS, S, M, L, XL and the size chart lists ladies S/M, M/L, and XL. What??
Though actually, there are Mono bindings for Qt I think. I'm pretty sure we ship them in Kubuntu, or at least have them in Main, but we don't ship anything that uses them.
There's no t-shirt. I mean, if you become a developer and then attend an Ubuntu Developer Summit...then there's a t-shirt. But for members? Well..if you grab one out of a conference pack so you can look all Ubuntu-y while running an Ubuntu booth at a conference...sure, but anyone working with a Local Community Team can do that. Membership gets you fairly intangible things. A Freenode @ubuntu/member/foo cloak, @ubuntu.com email alias, permission to use the Ubuntu logo on a business card (which you print yourself), an LWN subscription...
Where is this t-shirt thing coming from? You get an LWN subscription, an @ubuntu.com email alias, permission to use the Ubuntu logo on a business card, and a cloak on Freenode.
Announcement? Where? This is an interview regarding something that's existed for years. Regarding becoming a LoCo team, perhaps the loco-contacts mailing list or #ubuntu-locoteams on FreeNode could give some pointers?
Thanks:) That's a much more thorough explanation than the little bit of "and then there's these Protestants, and they had this Reformation..." thing we had as part of the history part of Religion class in Catholic school.
Code has nothing to do with it. I became an Ubuntu Member a few weeks before I submitted my first patch--which wasn't to Ubuntu. My contributions were things like:
helping people on ubuntuforums.org
helping people in #ubuntu on IRC
organizing an installfest
volunteering with the local community team
Technical contributions are not the only sort of contributions. For that matter, someone wanting membership whose only contributions are code-based will be told to simply apply for developer status as developers are automatically granted member status. Direct membership application is for community-based contributions. Advocacy work, tech support, writing documentation, working on translations, etc. are what are looked at.
Catholicism is works-based. Catholics believe that Jesus opened the Gates to Heaven but you still had to either do enough good stuff (or pay in place of that) to get in. No idea what Protestants back then thought, but nowadays they tend to say that your actions have nothing to do with it because faith alone gets one into Heaven. Though uh, actually the Calvinists of that time period believed in Predestination: God knew before you were born where you'd end up, and your life was simply an outward reflection of that (ie, if someone is destined to go to Heaven, you'll know it because they're the ones helping the poor, while being a murderer doesn't *cause* you to go to Hell but instead is a *sign* that you're headed there).
With Mark in charge the decision was made back in May to ship all the experimental stuff in 9.10 so it'd get an extra 6mo of testing before 10.04 LTS and to base 10.04 off of Testing instead of Unstable.
You can definitely use wireless from the CLI in Ubuntu if you know what you're doing. Which, well, that's how anything on the command line is: "if you know what you're doing." See also: "man 5 interfaces"
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And this is why we have sellers such as
The other thing that needs to be accounted for is the options women have that men don't. Women see having a family or having a career as a choice. They can do one, the other, or both. Men don't get to view that as a choice. For men, they must have a career, period. If they want to also be a father, they do it after they come home from the office.
BS. If a man wants to be a stay at home dad, he absolutely can. Now, some of his friends might give him crap for it, because it's not "manly" to have your wife being the breadwinner, but your comment just reiterates that sexist assumption and perpetuates the problem.
At the Ubuntu Developer Summit last November, one of the Ubuntu ARM guys did a plenary presentation where the machine hooked to the projector was an ARM machine running Ubuntu. I also saw Jonathan Riddell looking for a USB mouse so he could install Kubuntu on an ARM machine he'd been handed.
I haven't tried with 128MB, but Etch + E17 runs dandy on a Pentium 2 with 192MB of RAM.
If the teacher doesn't make it any *more* fun to learn, what good's it going to do? Fine, instead of zoning out staring at my laptop, I'll zone out staring at that funny bit of plaster in the corner or looking out the window.
No, we pay to be told which pages of a textbook are relevant and take exams on the material. Classes are a waste of time. Skip them all, and read the textbook, and you'll learn it better than you will just listening to your professor gab. Twice now, I've discovered when reading the textbook just before an exam that hey, this stuff *can* be interesting, it's just the professors that make it boring! Stupid attendance points.
One exception: Gabe Parmer, GWU's new Operating Systems professor, can make confusing things like concurrency (spinlocks, semaphores, etc.) and page caches easy. After spending only one day on concurrency in his class, I got it. I overheard one student tell him that in a computer architecture class they'd spent 2 weeks on page caches without it making sense, but he'd just taught it in one day, and it made perfect sense. Such teachers are rare.
I'm a CS major, so I didn't even notice that those were CS analogies and just considered them normal ways of describing such things.
The answer is never "no" only "not yet" and pretty much always includes an explanation of what's missing. Often what's missing is documentation of what they've done, particularly testimonials that say you're helpful either on your wiki page or in the IRC meeting where the interview and vote happen. "Get a few more referrals and come back in a month or two" is a very common response.
So, what you're saying is, all us Ubuntu Developers are incompetent with the command line, simply by virtue of being *Ubuntu* Developers and not Debian Developers? What about the ones that were Debian Developers before becoming Ubuntu Developers, like Colin Watson and Matt Zimmerman? Did they forget how to use a shell when they started working for Canonical?
I think there's a bug open about that.
And he's not stepping down from Ubuntu or from the Technical Board or from the Community Council. He's just not going to be the CEO of Canonical anymore. He's still up at the top for Ubuntu. It just highlights the distinction between Canonical and Ubuntu.
It was intended to be read as "we expect Mark to do what's right" ...as in "we're holding him to a higher standard" (that standard being the Leadership Code of Conduct). However, it tended not to be read that way, so it was removed.
Let me know if you figure out the sizing on that shirt. There's a shirt size chart http://shop.canonical.com/popup_sizes.php?pID=32 which, as you can see, doesn't list the same sort of sizes. That shirt comes in XS, S, M, L, XL and the size chart lists ladies S/M, M/L, and XL. What??
They're still GTK though... GTK#
Though actually, there are Mono bindings for Qt I think. I'm pretty sure we ship them in Kubuntu, or at least have them in Main, but we don't ship anything that uses them.
Hasn't backfired in the 3 or 4 years it's been around yet...
And for goodness sakes people, there's no free t-shirt for being a member!
If Dante's Inferno is anything to go by, "virtuous non-believers" go to the first circle of Hell. It's good-ish believers who go to Purgatory.
There's no t-shirt. I mean, if you become a developer and then attend an Ubuntu Developer Summit...then there's a t-shirt. But for members? Well..if you grab one out of a conference pack so you can look all Ubuntu-y while running an Ubuntu booth at a conference...sure, but anyone working with a Local Community Team can do that. Membership gets you fairly intangible things. A Freenode @ubuntu/member/foo cloak, @ubuntu.com email alias, permission to use the Ubuntu logo on a business card (which you print yourself), an LWN subscription...
Where is this t-shirt thing coming from? You get an LWN subscription, an @ubuntu.com email alias, permission to use the Ubuntu logo on a business card, and a cloak on Freenode.
Announcement? Where? This is an interview regarding something that's existed for years. Regarding becoming a LoCo team, perhaps the loco-contacts mailing list or #ubuntu-locoteams on FreeNode could give some pointers?
Thanks :) That's a much more thorough explanation than the little bit of "and then there's these Protestants, and they had this Reformation..." thing we had as part of the history part of Religion class in Catholic school.
Technical contributions are not the only sort of contributions. For that matter, someone wanting membership whose only contributions are code-based will be told to simply apply for developer status as developers are automatically granted member status. Direct membership application is for community-based contributions. Advocacy work, tech support, writing documentation, working on translations, etc. are what are looked at.
Catholicism is works-based. Catholics believe that Jesus opened the Gates to Heaven but you still had to either do enough good stuff (or pay in place of that) to get in. No idea what Protestants back then thought, but nowadays they tend to say that your actions have nothing to do with it because faith alone gets one into Heaven. Though uh, actually the Calvinists of that time period believed in Predestination: God knew before you were born where you'd end up, and your life was simply an outward reflection of that (ie, if someone is destined to go to Heaven, you'll know it because they're the ones helping the poor, while being a murderer doesn't *cause* you to go to Hell but instead is a *sign* that you're headed there).
Nah, I saw an article last year saying the Catholic Church was still cool with Indulgences.
With Mark in charge the decision was made back in May to ship all the experimental stuff in 9.10 so it'd get an extra 6mo of testing before 10.04 LTS and to base 10.04 off of Testing instead of Unstable.
You can definitely use wireless from the CLI in Ubuntu if you know what you're doing. Which, well, that's how anything on the command line is: "if you know what you're doing." See also: "man 5 interfaces"