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A journey of a thousand smiles: Questing Quokka
Quoting: A journey of a thousand smiles: Questing Quokka —
Embarking on a quest can be serious business – whether you’re going off on a family holiday or traveling the hills of Britain in search of the holy grail, our focus is very much affixed to the finish line. Every year, nearly 1 million people from across the globe pack their bags and trek thousands of kilometers to a small island off the west coast of Australia. Rottenest, in Dutch meaning “The Rat’s Nest”, is home to not a rodent, but a peculiar little marsupial: the quokka. These perpetually grinning little creatures have lived on this majestic slice of land for millennia and have recently become a bit of a sensation in the age of social media.
The idea of traveling myriads of miles to take a selfie with a pudgy little macropod may sound silly, but that may be the point. Ubuntu, and all of open source software for that matter, may too seem silly on paper. People from all over the globe, from every walk of life, giving their most precious commodity to a cause that really has no defined end. Open source is ever changing and the quest to build the best free software is a never ending adventure and that’s what makes it so special.