__/ [ Bob Moore ] on Friday 27 April 2007 15:28 \__
> Hi all,
>
> Just wanted to give you an update on the Tux500 project. We've been pretty
> busy this week... although sometimes it feels like we're getting stuck in
> the mud. The biggest challenge we're facing is getting the word out. Even
> though the Linux community is estimated at 20 million worldwide, and 6-7
> million in the US, we've only had a little over 30,000 unique visitors to
> the site.
>
> OSWeekly.com did an interview with myself, Ken, and Ted, and even though
> it's the main story on their site, it isn't being run by any of the biggies
> who would normally pickup this kind of story (/., Digg, etc.) I guess this
> is going to have to be a completely grass-roots effort. I don't mind that,
> in fact, it's going to make things even sweeter when we finally reach that
> critical mass!
>
> I met with our driver yesterday... he's an extremely nice guy, with some
> really interesting stories to tell. He was telling me how he was a rookie
> at the Indy 500, and some of the other rookies that year were Nigel
> Mansell, Nelson Piquet, and Robbie Gordon... Stephan outqualified them
> despite having never raced an oval course! I've put the interview up on
> Tux500.com so that everyone in the community can get to know him.
>
> Thanks for your support everyone! We're going to pull this thing off...
Who said that Linux had driver issues? ;-)
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