Blueprints approved - finish specifications and add work items

The blueprints have now been voted on (all blueprints with assignee were
approved) and they have been added to Launchpad.

Now please finish the specifications and add work items to the
blueprints - if you don't do this, the work items status [1] will show a
misplaced baseline.

Cheers,
Pasi

[1] http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-quantal/

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Everybody is welcome to submit ideas to the roadmap brainstorm until the end of week 19

Make it looking good from the beginning!!! Why not?!

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/xubuntu-pangolin.html

First post

Hi people and beloved developers of my unique and glorious operating
system. My name is Santiago Roland. I'm from Uruguay, South America and
I've been an Ubuntu/Xubuntu user since 2006. I also participate in many
Ubuntu LoCo activities in my local group and also do a lot of bug
reporting. I'm not a programmer or developer. I'm just an astronomer
finishing my grade studies and work at the Los Molinos Astronomical
Observatory here in Uruguay in which use Ubuntu as our main image
processing platform. I do a little programming maybe in python and
mostly science-oriented languages. I would be glad to here what you are
up to in this mailing list and maybe suggest things for improving XFCE
desktop and Xubuntu distro.

I kind test things with myself and my wife that knows absolutely nothing
about computers and just wants the PC to work and be easy to use. This
perspective is different from maybe a skilled programmer or user. I also
teach basic computer course in a NGO, to old people in the 50-70 age
range and we use Ubuntu Linux for this. So i get a lot of feedback from
very inexperienced users that developers maybe want to hear about.

I just and this mail by congratulate you for the great job you all do.

Best regards,

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Xubuntu community meetings

Hello people,

I've set up a Doodle poll [1] to find the best meeting times for the
Quantal cycle.

A few things to note before you go adding your info:
 * All times are in UTC
 * Xubuntu team members, please add your nick or name along with your
submission, because you being able to attend is most important
 * Please add any time slots that *usually* work for you (Doodle only
allows specific dates to be set, but we'll be using the same times for
the whole cycle)
 * Doodle starts the week with Sunday, so be careful with your submission!

And finally,
 * All times are in UTC

Cheers and GO!
Pasi

[1] http://www.doodle.com/6gifbcka8fzvrzz9

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Brainstorming has ended, assignee anyone?

Hello people.

The brainstorming for the Roadmap has ended.

By definiton, the team will need to approve, decline or postpone the
blueprints during this week. Schedule-wise it looks like it's going to
be the beginning of next week though.

Now we need assignees for the blueprints – both for the features and for
the default application changes.

Those people who sent emails to the list saying they could do a bit of
this and that – now is the perfect time to step in! Just edit the
"Assignee"-column on any of the items [1] in the Roadmap page [2]. Those
who are just lurking on the list, this is your time too to step up.
Remember that items with no assignee will most probably not be
implemented to the next release.

I'll get back to you all later this week.

Cheers,
Pasi

[1] Feature-blueprints have usually only one assignee, default
application blueprints can have several assignees
[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Roadmap/Goals/Quantal

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An explanation for a misunderstanding

Since there seems to be passionate about "Charlie being locked out of
xubuntu-users" [1], let me try to correct the misunderstanding.

Nobody's been locked out of anything intentionally. Nobody wants to stop
other people accessing anything, especially if they are accessing
because they want to contribute to the project.

The reason why Charlie was seemingly locked out from the moderator panel
is that I had changed some settings for the list – most importantly,
updated the admin password, and while I was at that, moved people
(including Charlie) from the admin group to the moderators team (they
shouldn't get as much unnecessary post now, for starters).

I have now updated the moderator password too and sent email to Charlie
to both correct the misunderstanding and access the technical issue
behind it.

What comes to me "taking over" mentioned in Charlie's post [1], this is
something what I'm expected to do by the community, to make sure we can
keep up with the quality standards set by the previous project leaders,
if not improve them. Again, I'm not trying to stop anyone from
contributing, I'm just doing a regular maintenancy check for any tools
we are using.

While all of the things mentioned above might seem something they are
not, for example seemingly locking somebody out of somewhere, none of
these issues are intentional or hoped. In the future, I hope members of
the community would check any issues with me or any other concerning
members before throwing accusations out in the public.

Re: xubuntu-devel Digest, Vol 80, Issue 1

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Hosting an Xubuntu Mirror at the OSU Open Source Lab

The Oregon State University Open Source Lab is interested in hosting an
Xubuntu mirror. We currently already host a mirror for Ubuntu.

Could you please provide us with information on becoming an official
Xubuntu mirror? We would love to support the great work you all are
doing! Thank you!

-- Trevor Bramwell (bramwelt)
Student System Administrator - OSUOSL

Brainstorming the 12.10 release

The brainstorming phase for the 12.10 roadmap has begun!

To learn more, navigate to
http://xubuntu.org/news/brainstorming-the-12-10-release/

Cheers,
Pasi Lallinaho
Xubuntu Project Lead

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Fwd: Ristretto 0.3.x for Xubuntu 11.10

website team - Xubuntu in the press

Hello,

I saw this news item:
http://www.nomachine.com/news-read.php?idnews=363

Key quote:
"They are now able to access an easy-to-use Xubuntu desktop and all
their critical business programs, including email and an open-source
equivalent to Microsoft Office."

Plus my own websites:

English:
http://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/xubuntu

Dutch:
http://sites.google.com/site/computertip/xubuntu

On the official Dutch Ubuntu forum, Xubuntu 12.04 is a hit: many
people are trying it and liking it:
http://forum.ubuntu-nl.org/

Regards, Pjotr.