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Then check out the new linux.com website.

This community is awesome! You can get Guru points for contributing to it and if you are the Uberguru even more:

The top Linux.com user will be recognized each year as the “ The top five contributors to Linux.com annually will receive invitations to the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit and have a seat at the annual Linux.com planning meeting as community representatives. Ultimate Linux Guru” and be given a fully loaded “dream” Linux notebook, personally autographed by Linux creator Linus Torvalds, as recognition of his or her guru status.

Huh! A notebook with an autograph of Linus. I'm looking forward to the people blacking out in face of their Opensource-Super-Rockstar!
This hype is just too much (as well as the hype about RMS, there are a LOT more people contributing to the kernel and making Linux what it is today.

Sorry but this is the most ridiculous thing I've read recently (note that travel fees aren't even included in the invitations to the LFCS : )
I don't see the point of this. Sure giving people some kind of motivation for contributions is not wrong but please... not this way. Translating the website into other languages would've been a
way more useful job. I'm also pretty sure that this hurts the "community" more than it helps. People will put even more useless tutorials and howtos on the net - increasing the noise in the availability of information - in order to increase their guru status and gain "respect".

Looks like the Linux version of the good old MCSE.