DoctorMo's Blog

I’ve been watching the tedTalk by Simon Sinek and I wanted to ask you all as a community what you believe in. According to Simon there are die hard Apple fans who love Apple and their products because they believe in Apple’s think different philosophies and only after will they make practical excuses for why they like the products.

I believe in giving users software ownership, that no matter how much or how little they paid for software that they should have complete ownership and control over their own computers. They should have source code, they should be able to modify it or pay others to modify it for them, they should be able to redistribute and learn from it without strings, restrictions or end user agreements.

I believe it’s your computer, your data and your life and it’s not my business as a programmer and software maker to tell you how to run it. It’s your job to tell me how you want the software to serve your needs.

So now you know what I believe as an official Ubuntu member; I want to ask you all, what you believe in when it comes to Ubuntu and Software?

Hey folks, I would have dearly loved to have gone to this year’s Community Leadership Summit, but my traveling budget got killed by UDS Karmic and it wouldn’t be fair to go jet setting all around the place when I don’t even make enough to cover rent¹.

So instead I’m inviting all you lovely Ubuntu folks to make sure to get yourselves down there, Jono Bacon will be there as will other important people from the Ubuntu community leadership. I think it would be a great opportunity for Ubuntu Local Community (LoCo) organisers and leaders to learn some tricks and tips from the masters of community.

It’s in San Jose California, United States and will be held on the 18th and 19th of July. All people who want to go should register on the registration page to make sure you get to go.

¹ I would have also liked to go to the Grand Canary Islands for the Free Software for rich people summit. But that’s serious layout for such a swanky place in the middle of an ocean.