| Help find MEPIS a new home |
Feb. 27, 2007
Well, to be more exact, Warren Woodford, MEPIS Linux's founder and chief maintainer, is looking for a new abode. Woodford currently lives in Morgantown, West Virginia, which, coincidentally, is where your author spent many wonderful years as a perpetual graduate student, and started his first business.
The problem is, as a blog entry on the MEPIS website explains, "While this is a beautiful area, with mountains, forests, lakes, and rivers galore, it is somewhat lacking in technical people, resources, and opportunities. So we have started the "Help Warren Find a New Home" project with a simple goal: find a new home for Warren and MEPIS."
"He would like to be in a town/city in the US that has more to offer, technologically speaking. It should be near a university where he could develop a good working relationship with people in the university, especially in the computer science department, and where he would have more people available to help work on MEPIS."
Alas, much as I love Morgantown, I have to agree with him. I'm lucky enough to have found a wonderful home near Asheville, North Carolina, which has all the natural delights of Morgantown, but more of the business and technology influences Warren's looking for. After all, we even have Meet the Geeks, where the, well, geeks of the area get together to drink beer, swap stories, and network.
That said, this lead me to ponder the question: How important is it to you, as a Linux user or developer, to live in a place that Linux's friendly?
We tend to think of Linux as something that happens on our PC. We look at websites like this one. We talk about issues on Linux mailing lists. We swap code using various source code control systems. So, how important is "real-space" to you, when so much of Linux and open-source happens in "virtual-space"?
Drop me a note on the Linux-Watch forum and let me know.
As for me, I can do my work from anywhere that has a power outlet and a high-speed Internet connection. But, I much, much prefer to do it somewhere out in the country or up in the mountains, than in a city. I "survived" living and working in and near Washington DC for 15 years, with frequent Amtrak runs to NYC. I'm "happy" living and working on a mountainside facing a national forest.
Oh, and if you live in, or know of, an area that you think will work for Warren, drop him a note in the MEPIS blog.
-- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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