<div>On 26/02/2008, Tony Travis <<a href="mailto:ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk">ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Tony Arnold wrote: > Kris, > > Kris Douglas wrote: >>[...] >> Is this proper Ubuntu-as-in-Linux cola? Or just because of South African etc... > > No, it has nothing to do with Ubuntu Linux. They've just coined the > African word. > >> Furthermore, something we could look at is making OpenCola for our >> Ubuntu events :) > > Hmm, interesting! Hello, Tony. I think it's the other way around - Canonical adopted the name Ubuntu to describe the philosophy of their project just as the Fair-Trade people have adopted the name Ubuntu for their Cola. As I understand it, people have 'Ubuntu' if they show humanity to others:         <a href="http://www.ubuntu.upc.edu/">http://www.ubuntu.upc.edu/</a> Seems a pretty good model for a Linux distribution to follow too ;-)         Tony. -- Dr. A.J.Travis,                     |  mailto:<a href="mailto:ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk">ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk</a> Rowett Research Institute,          |    <a href="http://www.rri.sari.ac.uk/~ajt">http://www.rri.sari.ac.uk/~ajt</a> Greenburn Road, Bucksburn,          |   phone:+44 (0)1224 712751 Aberdeen AB21 9SB, Scotland, UK.    |     fax:+44 (0)1224 716687 This is from the parish magazine for February (Grassington North Yorks)</blockquote> <div> There's a special word in the Nguni languages of South Africa: Ubuntu. Ubuntu doesn't translate into English but its a word that describes the essence of being human. "I am a person because of you. I am human because I belong. My life is bound up and tied to together with yours- not just with my close family and friends but with everyone's. A person with Ubuntu is welcoming, hospitable, warm and generous and recognises others as persons. A person has Ubuntu if he or she knows that our lives and the world around us are delicately knit together and completely interdependent. Caroline                          </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> -- <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> <a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/">https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/</a> </blockquote></div> -- --- London School of Puppetry <a href="http://www.londonschoolofpuppetry.com">www.londonschoolofpuppetry.com</a>