Someone Else's Take on Why We Do This

Hello,

Riccardo published a piece last week on why people should contribute to Ubuntu Touch, and he name-checked me in it:

“After I have joined the calc team I met also mihir_ (Mihir Soni) and boiko (Gustavo Boiko): Mihir is another community contributor and we worked together to create the final version of the calculator which is the default in Ubuntu Touch, a very cool app!”

Odd feeling, seeing your IRC nick written out in someone else’s post about the last few months. His four reasons for contributing — the people, the skills you pick up, the enjoyment of it, being part of something bigger than yourself — line up pretty closely with why I’m still showing up every morning. QML, Bazaar, code review from strangers who’ve become people I actually recognize on sight in the channel.

Worth linking to if I ever have to explain to someone offline why I spend my evenings on a phone calculator app.