MarkStone
Mark Stone
Email: MailTo(mark.stone AT SPAMFREE gmail DOT com)
Who
Mark is a freelance writer and open source consultant. He has been using Linux as his main desktop operating system since 1994, and has been using Ubuntu for about a year and a half.
Mark has a long history with open source, having worked as [http://www.oreilly.com O'Reilly]'s Executive Editor for Open Source in the late 90s, having been part of [http://www.vasoftware.com VA Linux]'s notorious IPO (without much personal gain), and having served on the executive management team behind such sites as [http://slashdot.org Slashdot], [http://sf.net SourceForge], [http://freshmeat.net Freshmeat], and [http://www.linux.com Linux.com].
Where
Mark lives in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Northern California. He has lived in Northern California off and on since 1986.
What
At present Mark is working on a book on Ubuntu for the desktop, to be published by [http://www.manning.com Manning Press]. Draft material of the book can be found at MarksUbuntuBook on this wiki.
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