True open community spirit

I like the concept of "true community spirit" very much, where persons and organizations, that work on one project help those ones of another project to fix their problems.

Here's one example, that is particularly interesting for Chinese language support on Ubuntu Linux. Novell developers wrote this how-to guide, that helps fix flaws in the display of Chinese characters on recent Ubuntu distributions.

I've already used it several times.

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Peter Junge

Peter Junge is a long-time user and fan of open source software (OSS), especially Linux. For over eight years now, he's been an OSS IT professional, filling different roles in the OpenOffice.org project. Peter currently lives in Beijing, China, where he pays his bills working as program manager and senior engineer for a local company that develops products based on OpenOffice.org. He is also an active member of the Beijing Linux User Group.