I ran into Rob Levin on a random walk in the #joiito chatroom yesterday as I was looking for the solution to an Ubuntu problem. He’s the guy behind freenode, the network of irc chat servers that serves as the communication backbone of almost the entire open source development and user world, and that includes Ubuntu. IRC is the preferred method of communication for developers spread out all over the world, and freenode is absolutely free to use.
Have you wondered how people who dedicate a portion of their lives actually live their lives, how they manage to get paid etc? I have. I visited Rob’s homepage and found out. He’s requesting financial help, and I’d say that he’s justified in doing that. So if you want to do a good deed today, consider helping him out.
Hi Carthik,
I found your website while looking at wordpress themes. I think you were linked from Becca (?), a theme designer. I am wondering if the theme you are using here is available for use? Actually, what I am most impressed with is the display of your archive page. Is this available publicily? Any info would be appreciated.
Thanks,
-Andy
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Hi all. Things are still pretty quiet at this point. I’m not sure how long they’ll
be that way. But, thanks to
Carthik Sharma
of
#joiito
and
Ken Coar
of
Apache Software Foundation
for kindly linking to S…
[...] I once chatted with him, and he came across as a very nice, humble guy. I even wrote on my blog asking folks to lend him a helping hand, and became a freenode donor myself. I strongly beleive that every one of us should pitch in and help support those who dedicate their lives to making ours better. [...]