Last week, I was graciously invited to spend a few days at the Ubuntu Developer Summit held in Orlando, Florida. Twice a year, Canonical engineers, partners, and community members get together to discuss and plan the next release of their operating system. I was invited to talk about Ask Ubuntu to help in the planning of how the Ubuntu community can better integrate with the Stack Exchange site.
We started with a video interview and gave a high-paced “Lightning Talk” about the Ask Ubuntu site. Honestly, I thought I would spend the week “selling” the merits of the Stack Exchange to a wary group of open source advocates. But surprisingly, the Ubuntu community was already well-informed and very enthusiastic about the Ask Ubuntu site. That’s high praise considering that the Canonical site has not officially announced nor linked to the Ubuntu Stack Exchange site. I was hoping to change that. …