Ubuntero.org   Showcasing the Ubuntu community

So here I am on a flight to Ohio LinuxFest with two friends/colleagues/Ubunteros—and my first thought is “What the hell am I going to write about?” I’ve been blogging for many years about different things such as technology, video games, gadgets, personal thoughts, and experiences. As I sit here creating my first post for Ubuntero, I realize how special this specific blog is to me.

So firstly, let me say thank you to those of you taking the time to read this at the moment: you are the inspiration of this site. I have to admit, I’m as excited as a geek in an open-source candy store to finally have Ubuntero back up. Why am I excited? Because of what our small group of Ubunteros say at our meetings. When Andrew, Ken, and I have gotten together to talk about our site, our love for the Ubuntu community is evident.

We start by talking about what our idea for a site is. Of course originally we wanted to have a social site where people can create their own site, put up their own content, and have a forum that was their own. While doing this, we constantly kept in mind that we needed to make sure that we never built a replacement for Ubuntu’s existing resources. We were inspired by the forums, wiki, but didn’t want to be them. We wanted something special, we wanted something supplemental.

That’s why we decided to build something for you, for all of us, the community that we are blessed to be a part of. We always had you in mind. We want for you to love coming to the site because it is yours: your content, your friends, your community. Yes, I know it sounds corny but that’s how passionate we are to bring all of the great things together that have the spirit of Ubuntu in mind.

After a too-long hiatus, we’ve relaunched Ubuntero with a slightly different focus. Sorry; we know we’ve been gone for quite a while.

The reason we created Ubuntero was to capture the fantastic community that surrounds the best Linux distribution out there. The people are certainly what make Ubuntu itself great, as well as the experience of using it and sharing it with others. We each have had the chance to talk about Ubuntu with other people, family,  friends, colleagues, etc., and a lot of what we share is the best way to get help with this program, that issue, or understanding why the other thing does that. We’ve also learned a lot about Ubuntu from each other. We love to share, and it’s in that spirit that we created Ubuntero—as a place for all of us to share what we love about Ubuntu.

We’ve realized that the essence of what we have been trying to do is to create a medium that invites new Ubuntu users to join the community, and to provide a way to know the depth and breadth of all that’s out there.

We want to emphasize that we are simply a part of the Ubuntu community, so we also want to offer everyone the chance to contribute. We’re interested in hearing your stories/experiences, your ideas, anything you’d like to share. (Also, we’re working on arranging a way for everyone to write for the blog yourself, if you’re so inclined, but if not we’d still like to know what you want to see on the site. For the time being, feel free to contact us.