rosevibe: You're quite involved with the open source community, can you tell me what first prompted an interest in that?

nikbutler: A very long time ago I was a development manager for a Software company and we used Windows for everything. I looked at slackware and samba at that time and thought. this could change things.


rosevibe: Just how many other projects are you involved in at present and how do you find the time for them?

nikbutler: There is 1 project : The Nik Butler; Loudmouthman Brand.

This involves Ubuntu UK , Blogging, Social networks and MediaCasts.

How do I find time ? Well do one thing after the other and choose only the things which take your plan forward.


rosevibe: You seem very enthusiastic about everything you're involved with - but which project excites you the most at the moment?

nikbutler: Social Networks and Social Media are moving far beyond where Web2.0 as a concept thought it would go. Just as the internet became something we least expected so Social Media and Networks are changing core concepts of communities.


rosevibe: If you could change just one thing about the world today, what would it be?

nikbutler: Honestly ?

I really dont know what I would change as 1 thing .

Change a big thing and things change and self correct to amend that change. Change a little thing and no one notices enough.

Getting people to understand what needs to be changed would be the thing to change.