-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Daubers,
Matthew Daubney wrote: [snip!] > Secondly, thanks to the people who turned up to my (frankly awful) talk > at Oggcamp on this subject. Next time I have a chance to talk about what > I'm trying to achieve I _should_ be able to do it better! As a result of > that I have some notes I'm slowly going through to gain some ideas of > how to move forward, but this moves me onto point three. Well I was in that talk and I thought you did fine, so thank you. > So really, what drives you to support people? What, in your own opinion, > could be done to help motivate yourself to do better? So many reasons I'm bound to forget as many as I list. * I believe in the software and the people behind it. * I believe in the power of the community - if we each do a little bit we can achieve a lot. * I like sticking it to The Man! * I was that cluebie newless once! * When I first started *really* using Ubuntu a few years ago, Popey was a massive inspiration to me, my hero. As time has gone on, more people have done the same. I hope that I can inspire people and maybe be someone's hero too. * Supporting other users is one way of giving back to a community that has given me so much. * Sometimes that little bit of help makes someone's day. * Sometimes they even thank you! * It's beneficial for me to understand users' problems. * It's beneficial for me to demonstrate that I know the answers to users' problems. * It's beneficial for me to learn from users' problems. * I cannot bear to think of a life where every day I get up, drop the kids at school, go to work, pick the kids up, go back to work, come home, eat, go to bed and start all over again. * Often my day job is so infuriatingly frustrating I like to achieve something with my evening so the day isn't wasted. * I'm a geek. * I enjoy a challenge and don't like to quit. There are *loads* more, but that should get you started. It's not all philanthropic, I do stuff that benefits me too - but the beauty of Free Software is that even when I'm scratching my own itch, I'm usually scratching someone else's itch too. Hope this helps, JT - -- - ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------- James Tait, BSc | xmpp:jayte...@wyrddreams.org Programmer and Free Software advocate | VoIP: +44 (0)870 490 2407 - ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkv9q/AACgkQyDo4xMNTLiahTgCg94q1FR3LEcY4LJkvpsjIM96L KkwAn3+G1daKwrGBS65TeIO49nCK/prX =6q4/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
