Re: [Staffslug] What are YOU doing to promote FOSS and Linux?

Well tbh, I first of heard of Linux when I was 12 when I was in School. My friend bought a computer magazine with a full page SuSE advert, and ever since I've been intreaged. It wasn't till I was 15 I actually used Linux for the first time, Mandrake 8.2. Since then I've had at least a dual boot on my machine. I even went a good year or so Linux only with Ubuntu but I eventually got bored and wanted to play some games so had to go back to dual boot. Interms of how do I give back? I've written a few howtos over the years, including a howto setup the eariler versions of the Audioscrobbler Plugin on Ubuntu, which prooved popular. I've messed about with LAMP stuff, and have given back through various forums and IRC channels. I've generally done bits and bobs over the years, some novice-artwork, howtos, forum posts, IRC. When I was in school I used to tell everyone about Linux even if I brushed past them in the corridor, I actually annoyed alot of my friends until they tried it. Most of them tried it thought it was cool and discarded it. My ultimate aim would be writting code for the kernel itself, but I'm very much a novice C coder. Hopefully my Computer Science and Software Engineering Degree will help me out with that. ---- Adam Nicholls