Mark Shuttleworth takes off for cyberspace
Mark Shuttleworth was the first African made in orbit. After conquering the space and enjoyed life inside the space station on 2002 for 8 days, Mark Shuttleworth takes of for cyberspace. Mark studied finance and information technology at the University of Cape Town, and went on to found Thawte, a company specialising in digital certificates and internet privacy. He sold Thawte to US company VeriSign in 1999, and founded HBD Venture Capital and The Shuttleworth Foundation. He moved to London in 2001, and began preparing for the First African in Space mission, training in Star City and Khazakstan. In April 2002 Mark flew in space, as a cosmonaut member of the crew of Soyuz mission TM34 to the International Space Station. In early 2004 he founded the Ubuntu project, which aims to produce a free, high quality desktop OS for everybody.
“Ultimately open source is the platform of the future, It’s one of those enormous waves that is taking over everything, like the Internet”
I was very pleased to see John Vivirito announcing a desktop-effects team for Ubuntu, that will focus on the integration of 3D technology into the desktop like Xgl, Compiz and AIGLX. Folks who are interested in that stuff and want to help make Ubuntu rock in that department please join the team! We’re particularly interested in people who have strong OpenGL experience. Via Mark Website
If you would like to support desktop-effects team for Ubuntu visit launchpad
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