Mark Shuttleworth

description: South African entrepreneur; second self-funded visitor to the International Space Station

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The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation
by Jono Bacon
Published 1 Aug 2009

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Today, the Ubuntu community is broken into three approximate layers of governance, shown in Figure 10-1. Figure 10-1. The Ubuntu community has a number of different groups that govern it, all driven by community members. The community has been divided into four primary governing areas: Mark Shuttleworth As the founder and primary sponsor of Ubuntu, Mark is afforded the privilege of a tie breaking vote and of deciding what his employees at Canonical focus their work on. Although “Mark Shuttleworth” appears at the top of Figure 10-1, the Community Council and Technical Board do not report to him; this is purely to illustrate his tie-breaking privilege. Community Council This is the highest governing council in the community.

Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
by Lawrence Lessig
Published 2 Jan 2009

And the most successful in this class will be those that best leverage those norms by translating fidelity to the norms into hard work. Perhaps the most interesting recent example of this model is a company called Canonical Ltd., a commercial entity supporting another brand of GNU/Linux called Ubuntu Linux. Launched in 2004 by the entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu aims to become “the most widely used Linux system.” Its focus initially has been really really easy desktop distributions. (I’ve experimented with a number of Linux installations. This one was by far the easiest.) The company hopes that the ease and quality of its distribution (not to mention its price) will drive many more individual computer users to use Ubuntu Linux.

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Likewise, though in differing degrees, with the other interviewees who appear throughout the book: Brian Behlendorf, Marc Brandon, Candice Breitz, Stewart Butterfield, Steve Chen, Gregg Gillis, Mark Hosier, Joi Ito, Mimi Ito, Don Joyce, Brewster Kahle, Heather Lawver, Declan McCullagh, Dave Marglin, Craig Newmark, Silvia Ochoa, Tim O’Reilly, Philip Rosedale, Mark Shuttleworth, Johan Söderberg, Victor Stone, Jimmy Wales, Jerry Yang, and Robert Young. I have learned a great deal from all of them, and I hope I have fairly evinced some of that understanding here. Three other interviewees spent a great deal of time teaching me material I didn’t get to use here. Dana Boyd generously shared her rich and extraordinarily interesting learning about youth and creativity.

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Telephone interview with Robert Young, April 26, 2007. 6. Red Hat and VA Linux gave stock options to Torvalds. Wikipedia contributors, “Linus Torvalds,” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, available at link #93 (Last visited July 31, 2007); Gary Rivlin, “Leader of the Free World,” Wired, November 2003, available at link #94. 7. All quotes from Mark Shuttleworth taken from an interview conducted March 19, 2007, by telephone. 8. Ted Rheingold, “Don’t Outsource Your Sales,” Dogster & Catster company Blogster, available at link #95 (last visited April 1, 2008). 9. All quotes from Internet venture capitalist Joichi Ito taken from an interview conducted January 23, 2007, by telephone. 10.

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We-Think: Mass Innovation, Not Mass Production
by Charles Leadbeater
Published 9 Dec 2010

That is possible only if these communities are joined around a simple animating goal, if they develop legitimate ways to review and sort ideas and if they have the right kind of leadership. What they are not, ever, is egalitarian self-governing democracies. As an example, consider the open-source community that produces Ubuntu, a user-friendly version of Linux. Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu’s founder, is like a benevolent dictator and reserves some decisions for himself, such as the design of the Ubuntu website. The heart of the community, the technical board, meets online to set technical standards and to define what should be included in the different versions of the program.

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They invite others to come forward with ideas rather than hogging the limelight themselves. Open leaders tend to come from and identify with the communities they lead: Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist, still calls himself a customer-service rep. Even if they are benevolent dictators, like Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu, they submit themselves to far more transparent and accountable decision-making. Leaders of mass collaborations, like Sydney Brenner, the architect of the worm project, attract collaborators to interesting questions, orchestrate creative conversations around those questions and embody the organisation’s values in how they behave.

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Realizing Tomorrow: The Path to Private Spaceflight
by Chris Dubbs , Emeline Paat-dahlstrom and Charles D. Walker
Published 1 Jun 2011

"If there weren't people who are willing to step up to the plate and be willing to take the risk of spaceflight, and invest their own money, time, energy and capital to show that this is a market place, then the rest of us don't have a job. No investment would be flowing into the industry." One year after Tito's flight, when South African Mark Shuttleworth visited the iss, the criteria for civilian space flight participants were in place, and NASA welcomed with open arms his participation on the Soyuz TM 34 mission. The role of the participants had also begun to change. Unlike Tito, who spent most of his time in orbit viewing the Earth from his iss window and listening to opera, subsequent flyers would front load their flights with scientific experiments and activities to further distance themselves from the perceived image of the "joyride" tourist.

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He would later share with the press the excitement of watching the plasma glow outside his window during reentry, and what an inaccurate euphemism it was to use the term "soft landing." Dennis Tito's notion that he could fill the role once envisioned for NASA's Citizen in Space was proving true for another space tourist. Mark Shuttleworth, and each private space traveler to follow, would find a unique way to capture something different from their space experience and share it with the millions who joined vicariously in their adventure. As the third private citizen to fly with SA, Greg Olsen's mettle and determination were tested above the rest.

Small Change: Why Business Won't Save the World
by Michael Edwards
Published 4 Jan 2010

“I don’t believe there is a for-proﬁt answer to everything,” says Pierre Omidyar, “but if for-proﬁt capital can do more good than it does today, foundations can concentrate their resources where they are most needed,” a welcome dose of common sense in a conversation dominated by hype.2 “What I long to do,” says Bill Clinton, “is to see this [approach] integrated into every philanthropic activity where it is appropriate[my italics],” and “where it is appropriate” may be a small but not unimportant part of the picture as a whole.3 “Are we creating world peace or fundamentally changing the world?” asks Mark Shuttleworth, the South African billionaire backer of open source software such as Ubuntu. “No, but we could shift . . . the amount of innovation per dollar they 90 small change expect.”4 So how can we cooperate in moving forward together, and what can ordinary people do to help? Organizing an Honest and Open Conversation The ﬁrst priority is to pause, take a very deep breath, and create space for a different kind of conversation.

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With a Little Help
by Cory Efram Doctorow , Jonathan Coulton and Russell Galen
Published 7 Dec 2010

originally published in Starlight 3, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, editor (Tor, 2001) 14 "Visit the Sins," originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, June 1999 15 "Constitutional Crisis," produced for the Future of the Book Project, 2009 16 "Pester Power," originally published in Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, December 2008 17 "Chicken Little," written for Gateways, forthcoming from Tor Books, 2010 18 "Epoch," commissioned by Mark Shuttleworth for this volume 19 "I'm Only In It For the Money," written by Russell Galen for this volume 20 ~~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ With a Little Help, Cory Doctorow 21 A note about typos and other errors 22 Every book has typos. Every book.

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Probably an inept spambot. 2954 But. 2955 Maybe it's BIGMAC, out there, in the wild, painfully reassembling himself on compromised 32-bit machines running his patchkit. 2956 Maybe. 2957 ~~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ 2958 Afterword: 2959 Mark Shuttleworth of the Ubuntu project and Canonical commissioned this story; I'd always planned on selling off one commission for this volume, thinking that $10,000 would probably be a good sum to grab some publicity when/if someone bought it. I mentioned it over lunch and Mark immediately said he'd buy it.

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Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
by Clive Thompson
Published 26 Mar 2019

in his slide deck: Sarah Mei, “Why Rails Is Still a Ghetto,” Sarah Mei (blog), April 25, 2009, accessed August 18, 2018, http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2009/04/25/why-rails-is-still-a-ghetto. “to girls what we actually do”: Jun Auza, “Why Mark Shuttleworth Owes FOSS-Women an Apology,” TechSource, September 30, 2009, accessed August 18, 2018, http://www.junauza.com/2009/09/why-mark-shuttleworth-owes-foss-women.html; Chris Ball, “On Keynotes and Apologies,” Blog.printf.net, September 25, 2009, accessed August 19, 2018, https://blog.printf.net/articles/2009/09/25/on-keynotes-and-apologies. ranking women by “hotness”: Andy Lester, “Distracting Examples Ruin Your Presentation,” Andy Lester (blog), July 26, 2011, accessed August 19, 2018, https://petdance.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/distracting-examples-ruin-your-presentation.

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Python for Unix and Linux System Administration
by Noah Gift and Jeremy M. Jones
Published 29 Jun 2009

Here is a list of some of the projects using Python: Libvert, the virtualization API virtual machine manager A Python + PyGTK management application built with libvirt VirtInst A Python library for simplifying provisioning of guest VMs with libvirt Cobbler, which sets up fully automated network boot servers for PXE and virtualization Virt-Factory: web-based virtualization management with an application focus FUNC (Fedora Unified Network Controller) Ubuntu Administration Of all of the mainstream Linux distributions, you could say that Ubuntu is perhaps the one most enamored with Python. Part of this could be that Mark Shuttleworth, the founder, is a long-time Python hacker, going back to the early ’90s. One good source for Python packages on Ubuntu is Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/. Solaris Systems Administration From the late ’90s to the early 2000s Solaris was a preferred, “Big Iron” distribution of Unix.

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Recently he has worked on Python development projects as diverse as writing an SNMP auto-discovery system, writing a Content Management System from scratch, creating a large scale Web 2.0/Social Networking Application in Django for Turner Studios, to writing IPhone applications that talk to Google App Engine. He is also involved in a new media journalism project, Spotlight on FOSS, that had a kickoff interview of Mark Shuttleworth. He is currently co-authoring a book on Google App Engine and writing a large Google App Engine Exercise and Nutrition Tracking Application. Most recently, he works as a Python programmer for Weta Digital in New Zealand, which has one of the world's largest render farms/super computer sites.

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50 Future Ideas You Really Need to Know
by Richard Watson
Published 5 Nov 2013

Who, just a few decades ago, would have thought that billionaires would one day be in a race to invade space? The first private passenger on board a rocket (a space tourist) was Dennis Tito, who paid around $10–20 million for a return ticket to the International Space Station via the Russian Space Agency. Others who’ve taken the trip on a Russian Soyuz rocket include Mark Shuttleworth, Anousheh Ansari, Charles Simonyi and Guy Laliberté. As you can see, space tourism is a bit of a man thing, but this may change. “It won’t be too long before bright young men and women set their eyes on careers in Earth orbit and say: ‘I want to work 200 kilometers from home—straight up!’” Arthur C.

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People Powered: How Communities Can Supercharge Your Business, Brand, and Teams
by Jono Bacon
Published 12 Nov 2019

Diamandis, MD Founder & Executive Chairman, XPRIZE Foundation Executive Founder, Singularity University December 2018 CHAPTER 1 What Is a Community and Why Do You Need to Build One? If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. —African proverb In 2006, at the tender age of twenty-six, I started a new job at a British company called Canonical. Founded by newly minted South African millionaire Mark Shuttleworth, the company was focused on building a competitor to Microsoft’s Windows operating system monopoly. The twist was that this new operating system, Ubuntu, was created by a globally connected network of volunteers who freely shared the open-source code. My role was to turn a small set of contributors into an international movement.

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The New Gold Rush: The Riches of Space Beckon!
by Joseph N. Pelton
Published 5 Nov 2016

Eric negotiated with the Russians and came back and said that for $20 million he could fly up and stay on the International Space Station. Dennis Tito agreed to the deal. This was perhaps the second great boost to New Space activities comparable in importance to the XPrize competition. Thus Space Adventures was launched, and the idea of “space tourism ” went from dream to reality. Since then Mark Shuttleworth of South Africa and Greg Olsen, a high quality camera manufacturer from California, flew, and then the fourth private astronaut was a woman, none other than Anousheh Ansari, who along with her brother, had bought the $1 million insurance policy to fund the Ansari XPrize. The first four flights reportedly went for $20 million, but then inflation set in big time.

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Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic
by John de Graaf , David Wann , Thomas H Naylor and David Horsey
Published 1 Jan 2001

WEIGHTLESS TOURISM Hummers on the streets of Manhattan. You might call them Saddam’s revenge. Or Ho-Hummers, if you compare them with yet another way to drop big bucks. In 2001, American Dennis Tito became the world’s first space tourist, for only $20 million. The next year, South African Mark Shuttleworth followed, for the same price.6 In June 2004 SpaceShipOne took off on its first flight, rising sixty-two miles above Earth and entering officially into space.7 Soon, seats will be available for as little as $100,000. If that sounds like a deal, you might want to stick a thermometer in your mouth right away.

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Lonely Planet Cape Town & the Garden Route (Travel Guide)
by Lucy Corne
Published 1 Sep 2015

Many township tours also start at the museum, where the history of the apartheid-era Pass laws, which regulated where people were allowed to live based on their race, are explained. 1Sights District Six Museum Cape Town Science CentreMUSEUM ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %021-300 3200; www.ctsc.org.za; 370B Main Rd, Observatory; admission R40; h9am-4.30pm Mon-Sat, 10am-4.30pm Sun; p; dObservatory) Occupying a rare example of the work of modernist architect Max Policansky, this is a great place to bring kids for attractions such as the giant gyroscope (R5 extra) and tons of Lego. There's also a replica of the Soyuz capsule that returned South African tech billionaire Mark Shuttleworth to earth after his trip to the International Space Station. Heart of Cape Town MuseumMUSEUM ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %021-404 1967; www.heartofcapetown.co.za; Old Main Bldg, Groote Schuur Hospital, Main Rd, Observatory; overseas visitors R200, South African adult/student R100/50; hguided tours 9am, 11am, 1pm & 3pm; p; dObservatory) Booking a tour is the only way you can see the very theatre in Groote Schuur Hospital where history was made in 1967 when Dr Christiaan Barnard and his team carried out the world's first successful heart transplant operation (sadly, the recipient died a few days later).

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Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth
by Andrew Smith
Published 3 Apr 2006

Most delegates are either in the bar or on the beach, or chatting in the pleasant sun on the terrace, or attending more practical seminars, but here are Scott and other panelists, who include Eric Anderson of Space Adventures, sitting at a long table waiting to begin. The programme doesn’t mention it, but Anderson was partly responsible for getting the second proper space tourist, the South African businessman Mark Shuttleworth, up to the International Space Station on a Russian rocket. The same programme makes me smile by listing the Moonwalker in our midst as “David Scott, Astronaut (first Moon landing),” but now, with his ruddy complexion and white hair, astonishingly trim in dapper black suit worn with tasteful op art tie, he reminds me of the actor Tommy Lee Jones in Men in Black.

How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight
by Julian Guthrie
Published 19 Sep 2016

Amir felt guilty for having given up on his space dream so easily compared with Peter. He and Anousheh both grew up watching Star Trek in Iran and dreaming of interplanetary travel. But no one from Iran had ever flown in space. NASA was not taking paying customers up there. There had been only two tourists—Dennis Tito and South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth—and they’d forked over tens of millions of dollars for rides into orbit aboard Russian launchers. Anousheh listened to Peter in that first meeting and tried not to smile. She had never met anyone with Peter’s passion and commitment. With this guy, if you close one door, he’s going to open another, she thought.

Ubuntu 15.04 Server with systemd: Administration and Reference
by Richard Petersen
Published 15 May 2015

Ubuntu Linux is managed by the Ubuntu foundation, which is sponsored by Canonical, Ltd (www.canonical.com), a commercial organization that supports and promotes open source projects. Ubuntu is based on Debian Linux, one of the oldest Linux distributions, which is dedicated to incorporating cutting-edge developments and features (www.debian.org). Mark Shuttleworth, a South African and Debian Linux developer, initiated the Ubuntu project. Debian Linux is primarily a Linux development project, trying out new features. Ubuntu provides a Debian-based Linux distribution that is stable, reliable, and easy to use. Ubuntu is designed as a Linux operating system that can be used easily by everyone.