[ubuntu-uk] Introduction, and research

[Dave Morley]

On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 10:48 +0000, Bruce Beardall wrote:
> Hi Karl
> 
> I couldn't tell you where to start with this (although it's an
> interesting idea), just thought I'd drop a line and say welcome to the
> adventure. 
> 
> Or should that be ubu-venture?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Bruce
> 
> 
> 2009/1/21 Karl Beecher <k.s.beecher at googlemail.com>
>         Hi,
>         
>         My name is Karl Beecher, I've been a Linux user for about 5
>         years now
>         and a dedicated Ubuntu user for 3 of those.
>         
>         My personal passion right now is OSS research, and at the
>         moment I'm
>         finishing up my thesis on that topic at the University of
>         Lincoln. I've
>         done research into GNOME, KDE, and Debian, amongst other
>         things, and
>         I've worked with people (and continue to do so) involved in
>         the KDE
>         Research group (http://techbase.kde.org/Research ).
>         
>         Having seen other OSS projects involve themselves in research
>         like this,
>         I was intrigued that I was unable to find equivalent material
>         on the
>         Ubuntu site.
>         
>         And so, I would like to know if there are in fact any such
>         research
>         activities going on in Ubuntu, or, if not, whether this would
>         be of any
>         interest to others in the Ubuntu community. I realise this is
>         not the
>         perfect mailing list to address this question to, but I was
>         unable to
>         find a suitable one (apart from maybe ubuntu-qa), so I thought
>         I'd start
>         out by asking my fellow Brits. For a good example of what OSS
>         community
>         research might entail, check out the KDE link above. There are
>         also
>         other organizations and individuals too numerous to list.
>         
>         Again, apologies if this seems "off-topic", but if you know of
>         a more
>         suitable place to investigate or person to ask, please let me
>         know.
>         
>         Many thanks,
>         Karl Beecher
>         
>         --
>         ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com
>         https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
>         https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
> 

If you on irc then #ubuntu-quality might be a good place to start.  Also
there is a meeting tonight at 17:00 for ubuntu-qa
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