Hiring Edubuntu Staff

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, R. Scott Belford wrote:

> For what it is worth, it is now nearly a year since I tracked down
> every key Canonical employee I could find at Linuxworld 2008, both at
> the conference and at after-hours events, to communicate two messages:
> the state of Edubuntu and its User community was having an *adverse*
> *impact* on the adoption of gnu/linux in education, particularly in
> thin-client environments,and that two people should be hired - Gavin
> and Asmo.  As Ace observed, he actually thought Gavin worked for
> Canonical.  I used to think so, too.  Asmo has been instrumental at
> greeting and inspiring new users and help-seekers on this list, and he
> likes Frank Zappa.

You're very kind.  To be honest though, I don't really do that much.  I
used to be more involved as I was running a local school's Edubuntu setup
but I don't really have as much time for it any more.  All I have really
ever done in this community is answer some emails, report some bugs and
occasionally put small bits in the wiki.  None of it is very technically
challenging and even that work has waned recently.  I'm not a developer on
edubuntu, though I've long intended to get more involved at that end of
things.

An awful lot more work has been and is put in by guys like Scott, Oliver,
Jordan, Stéphane, Jonathan(s), Asmo, Vagrant and David(s) to name a few.
There are certainly others too -- it probably says it all that I can't even
name everyone.

If a list of people worth hiring were drawn up, I suspect there would be
plenty of names on the list before mine.

Gavin