For some time, I have been curious about the karma system in Launchpad – the massive infrastructure being erected not only for Ubuntu, but for the F/OSS community in general. The karma system gives “karma points” for actions which the system appreciates, like bug reporting, specification writing, bug fixing and so on. But so far, [...]
Last night I took some time off from the rather intense note-taking and -organizing I’ve been doing and went out to have a look about on at the ongoing Copenhagen Jazz Festival. Specifically, I went to a Tony Allen concert. Allen is a legendary Nigerian drummer, co-originator of the entire afrobeat genre, and described by [...]
Since I came from Læsø [note the Wikipedia entry name in the address bar - not easy to recognize] late Tuesday evening, I have been catching up on my mail. And lots of it. Doing fieldwork in an on-line community means that you’re reading lots and lots and lots of mail. From the various Ubuntu [...]
For three weeks through May and June I ran a Web Survey directed at the active members of the Ubuntu community. I got more than 290 valid responses, and I’ve set up a page to share the results with the Ubuntu community. Not having done any major statistical surveys before, this was quite a change [...]
I arrived back in Copenhagen late last night on delayed flight from Barcelona and the 2006 version of the GUADEC conference. Actually, the conference took place in Vilanova i la Geltrú, 45 km south of Barcelona. The GUADEC (GNOME Users and Developers European Conference) and GNOME, for the uninitiated is the acronym for “GNU Network [...]
Having tried different budget airlines over the past few weeks, I’m appalled at how tacky they have become. On Ryanair flights, they will blare advertisements over the loudspeakers before take-off, before attempting to sell you all kinds of crap during the flight. On Sterling flights, they not only try to sell you the usual fare [...]