Leo Laporte and Randal Schwartz have been doing a great podcast for a few years now that seems to have done a good job of picking a lot of the prominent projects and associated luminaries in free and open-source software, FLOSS Weekly. The list of previous episodes is worth looking through at http://twit.tv/FLOSS and Randal is crowd-sourcing his list of those he would like to interview at http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pYAJMbVobYCTro_z4LGo3ZQ
Regards, Martin martinvisse...@gmail.com On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Jon <jonjer...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > I'm putting together a book about Ubuntu, and I would like to include a > list of people who have made the most significant contributions to the > development of Ubuntu and Linux in general. I have the usual suspects -- > Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Andrew Tanenbaum, Ian Murdock, Mark > Shuttleworth -- but after that it's hard to clearly see who stands out. > Perhaps some of you who have a longer history with Linux than I do could > indicate who really made a difference for you, and why. I want to say > something more than 'X is a really great developer' if I can. Pointers to > quotes or interviews would be handy too. > > Thanks in advance, > > Jon. > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
