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... aling with the release (I'm in charge of cdimage.ubuntu.com and releases.ubuntu.com, so I was the one who had to put all the files in place and press the Big Red Button), and straight after that I went off to sleep for 16 hours. When I got back, #ubuntu had EXPLODED; it took me a solid hour to catch up with all the activity there, when previously it had been this quiet little development channel. I think a lot of us had a "wow, people might actually be interested in this stuff" moment around then. ...

23 rd - 28 th April 2007 Filled with several hundred Ubuntu users, chatroom #ubuntu-classroom had Canonical employees - and community volunteers - explain what they do, how they do it and, most importantly, answer users questions. One Canonical employee taking questions was one Mark Shuttleworth (aka: SABDFL - Self-Appointed Benevo ...