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Open source spawns 'internet folk hero'.(TechKnowledge)(librarian Jessamyn West became an internet sensation after installing the Linux operating system Ubuntu)(Brief article)

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| July 01, 2007 | Ishizuka, Kathy | (Hide copyright information)Copyright

One day in May 2007, librarian and blogger Jessamyn West set out to install the Linux operating system Ubuntu on two donated PCs at her workplace, Calef Library, in Washington, VT. Grabbing her Canon digital Elph, she documented the process in a blessedly accelerated video, set it to a hoppin' Cajun tune, and the rest, as they say, is Internet history.

After spying the piece online (www.librarian.net/stax/2042/do-you-ubuntu), Cory Doctorow anointed West an "internet folk hero" on the blog BoingBoing, drawing 14,000 …

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