Posted on January 12, 2009 - by jono
Winning Formula
I just want to say a big well done! to our friends in the Ubuntu Forums for bagging the Best Support Resource in the Linux Format awards in issue LXF115. The forums community managed to beat the mighty Google. Pretty impressive stuff!
All of us in the Ubuntu community are so proud of the excellent work that goes on in the Ubuntu Forums. 6.5million posts and counting, 745,000 members and growing…the forums are a hugely valuable resource for Ubuntu and the Ubuntu ethos. They provide an important home for many of our community members. Thank you to Forums Council, the moderators and all the posters for earning the award. 
I am also hugely proud to see that Ubuntu won the Best Distribution Award and Canonical bagged the Best Enterprise Award. Props also to the KDE team for rightly deserving the Free Software Project Of The Year award for their incredible work on KDE4.
What a great start to the year. Lets make 2009 really kick it.
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January 12, 2009
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It’s ironic that most upstream developers consider the Ubuntu forums primarily a source of utter misinformation.
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January 12, 2009
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“745,000 members”
My. God. Quite the posse you have these days, Mr Bacon.
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January 12, 2009
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Heh, not exactly my posse, but quite an Ubuntu posse.
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January 12, 2009
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Great news indeed!! I use the Ubuntu Forums quite often, instead of Google. It gives you better answers and often also more up-to-date ones. Keep up the good work.
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January 12, 2009
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Keep in mind that on average, only 1k people are logged in, and 13k are not logged in.
So 750,000 registered with 1k regularly logged in = think of how much is that for the non-logged in ones…
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January 12, 2009
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Heh, I agree its less but just say the words “only 1000 are logged in” – thats still a lot of people!
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January 12, 2009
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That’s good to hear.. Next time I have a question Google can’t answer me I’ll probably just go straight there instead of bothering with irc, for obvious reasons..
I don’t suppose you could merge ubuntuforums and brainstorm right into launchpad as ubuntuforums is its own distinct organization, right?
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January 12, 2009
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Some other interesting numbers – assuming ubuntu’s install userbase is a million, then it is growing at 1.5k installs a day.
I took this data from popcon (looked at how “dpkg”, one of the most installed packages, was progressing).
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January 12, 2009
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Thanks for the recognition Jono. It’s truly a day for celebration, we’ve come along way in the last 4 years. We look forward to 2009. While were on the topic of forum bragging we also one “best community” from arstechnica.com in 2005
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January 13, 2009
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Ubuntu – Kick ass in 2009!
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January 14, 2009
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Gratulations to Ubuntu and KDE. The perfect Linux Desktop for me.
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January 14, 2009
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There are other distros out there that have pretty good forums but I have to agree that ubuntuforums.org wins the prize for holding a wealth of helpful information and attracting experts de-plenty to help with any problem.
The ubuntuforums.org is one of the main reasons that I recommend Ubuntu to people that are new to GNU/Linux.
Google search term(not like you really need to use it):
put keywords here site:ubuntuforums.org
ubuntuforums.org leads the way!! Nice Job!! Great Work!!!
Shannon VanWagner GNU/Linux Enthusiast http://humans-enabled.com
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January 19, 2009
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“Props also to the KDE team for rightly deserving the Free Software Project Of The Year award for their incredible work on KDE4.
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They’re kidding, right. KDE is a wonderful software project, but KDE 4 certainly isn’t their finest moment.