On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 00:17 +0100, James Tait wrote: <snip> > 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. >
Phew, at least someone was listening! Thanks for coming along. > > 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. > That's quite a long list! Here's an interesting side question, what would help motivate you to improve the way you support people? How do you think it could be improved? > 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, > More than you could imagine :) Thanks -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
