There are more Ubuntu members now than there used to be. Is this supposed to be surprising?
I agree with all of this except the suggestion that Torvalds is responsible for it. He popularized this model of development, but he didn't invent it.
A nice history of chat.meatspac.es.
Article by a leader of an internal HP "open source" user group type organization. Interesting.
Oh man, I really want to go to this...
Not free software and not that interesting. But an interesting project.
Incredible community. I really think that there's some amazing things going on with translation communities.
Free software alternative to Couchsurfing, I'm told.