Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu is on the Asia Business Tour, and will be in Mumbai this weekend. (21st and 22nd January). He is going to speak during the GNU/Linux Users meet on Sunday and people are all excited about the event.
I was not paying close attention to the thread on the mailing list, until I saw BG’s post giving a strong piece of advice 😉
I knew Mark is the founder of Canonical and Ubuntu. Ubuntu changed the whole Linux distribution model and lot of people have switched to Ubuntu – including us. For me, Ubuntu was a friendly Debian and it rocked! So I went ahead to read more about him.
And boy, was I surprised! This guy founded Thawte! We have been using Thawte certificates for a while and I never knew Mark was the founder, sitting in South Africa! Mark, true to his surname, has also been an astronaut. He runs a venture capital firm, and has a lot of other community interests. I am thrilled!
I am sure it’s going to be inspirational to meet him!
i worked with mark at thawte in the us….he is truely a wonderful person! i wish him luck in all of his adventures. he is a down to earth person (even though he went to space). mark is my hero 🙂