Please go and vote: http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/name_ISS/index.html
You can vote once a day until the 20th (or including, not sure).
This is going to be my last blog post on this so I thought I'd try my hand at convincing Firefly fans to vote for Ubuntu as a better name for Nasa Node 3.
Might be a weak argument, but wouldn't you rather Serenity be the name for a ship, not a node?
How about the first manned ship to Mars. Any takers? :)
Also Ubuntu really does capture the concept of international cooperation better than any name on that board. "I am what I am because of who we all are".
To recap what I hope to happen if we get in first:
- Colbert is currently in first place (From a very popular comedy central show)
- Ubuntu passes Colbert and wins the naming
- Colbert mentions Ubuntu on his show and eventually (preferably timed about a week after the Jaunty release) ends up inviting Mark Shuttleworth to the show.
- Many many more users try Ubuntu and other free software. They love it.
- We Win. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtdnZNYN0MM)
4 comments:
Ubuntu is the most overrated distro ever put out. It’s not nearly as good as its fanbois portray it to be — certainly not moreso than many other distros. Its “success” is all the result hype and fanboi “marketing”.
@Anonymous:
And yet, you still read the feeds and blogs about it...
Argh! Cthulhu answer my prayer! Kill the Ubuntu marketing scum!
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Ubuntu_for_Node_3_of_the_ISS
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