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LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem

Posted Oct 8, 2008 23:23 UTC (Wed) by calc (guest, #22286)
Parent article: LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem

I keep seeing the number of employees for Canonical being touted as 130 people. However, Canonical definitely has more than 130 employees in total but the number of people actually working on Ubuntu is only about 50.

Its fairly easy to find this information via launchpad.

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Posted Oct 8, 2008 23:26 UTC (Wed) by calc (guest, #22286) [Link]

If you want to know roughly how many employees Canonical has overall see:

https://launchpad.net/~canonical

LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem

Posted Oct 9, 2008 4:30 UTC (Thu) by njs (guest, #40338) [Link]

"Membership: You are not allowed to view this team's membership."

So maybe not so easy as all that :-)

LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem

Posted Oct 9, 2008 4:19 UTC (Thu) by calc (guest, #22286) [Link]

I see now where the 130 number came from it was on Dustin Kirkland's blog about Canonical employee numbers from 2007. So yes the company is growing very fast at least percentage-wise but is still quite small.