“I went to every Linux World Conference from San Jose 1999 to the last New York Conference,” he said looking into his shot glass with absolutely no facial expression. “I just got out of lock-up two weeks ago. I haven’t kept up”.

I immediately thought of Joe computer user, but I decided to keep an open mind and then introduced myself. I told him I used Ubuntu as my desktop and Red Hat Enterprise 5 on my web server. He continued staring at his shot glass and finally said, “I haven’t heard about Ubuntu and didn’t know Red Hat had branched out.”

“My third activity started with a trip to Starbucks. I took my laptop with me and started coding. I was a core developer on three projects. Starbucks didn’t mind my sitting there because I bought a gift card and would drink around ten cups of coffee from the time I got there until closing. I was a little hyper from all the coffee so I stayed up and roamed around IRC.

Cult of the Mad Penguin