After the technical sessions concluded on the first day of OSCON, some attendees headed across town to see Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, give a presentation to local Portland group Legion of Tech.
Shuttleworth, who traveled to space in a Russian Soyuz craft in 2001 after selling his company Thawte to Verisign, is notable for being the second self-funded space tourist. During his presentation at McMenamins brew pub/theatre, he shared the details of his experience in space.
He’s spent the last year focused on Launchpad. It’s a free software hosting and development website that makes it easy to collaborate across multiple projects.
“The great task in front of us over the next two years is to lift the experience of the Linux desktop from something that is stable and robust and not so pretty, into something that is art,” Shuttleworth said to applause from the audience earlier in the day.
More on OSCON 2008 is available at
- Arstechnica
- Information Week’s Open Source Weblog
- InfoWorld’s Open Source Weblog
- Internet News
- C/Net Oscon News
- E-Week
- PC World
- The Oscon Blog
- Silicon Florist
- OStatic
- The Register
- ZDNet
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