[Techtalk] who are the heroes of Linux?

[Carla Schroder]

On Tuesday, June 05, 2012 09:10:06 PM John Sturdy wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com> wrote:
> > ....
> > the sky's the limit as long as they are contributors. I'm looking for
> > people outside the usual Linus-Richard-Mark triangle, people who
> > deserve some recognition.
> > 
> > So fire away, and please include a sentence or two describing what they
> > do.
> How about Eben and Liz Upton, David Braben and others, who designed
> the Raspberry Pi ARM/Linux single board computer which is aimed at
> getting schoolkids into hands-on programming like the BBC Micro did in
> the 1980s?  See http://www.raspberrypi.org/ for details of what
> they've produced.  I've heard that on the launch day there were 700
> orders coming in per second... and it comes with Linux!
> 
> __John
>

That's a good one, thanks John!

best,
Carla
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