SO OFTEN, WE WRITE CODE IN ISOLATION and that code reflects our personal interpretation of a problem, as well as a very personalized solution.
It is easy to overlook the social side of software creation.
Creating software is a technical exercise mixed into a social exercise.
Coding for your friends, with Ubuntu, will help your team live your values and reinforce your principles.
Zen is about the individual. Ubuntu is about Zen for a group of people. Very, very rarely do we create code for ourselves alone.