Arnaud, Thank you for all the effort you have put on UMC. We really liked working with you ;) Now let's make a UMC release happen soon, Elisa is getting better each week, time is coming to integrate it even more in Ubuntu.
So I did a first triaging pass on the umc-team members applicants; contacted some of them to ask for informations and approved some new ones :) Philippe Le mardi 28 octobre 2008 à 22:02 +0100, Arnaud Quette a écrit : > Dear UMC Community, > > it's been a while since there has been a bit noise here ;-) > > as you all know, I had to drop away the leadership of UMC. > not because of a lack of interest, but due to real lack of time (check > my double sig for a clue). > > until now, nobody stepped up to take over, and push this Community to give > its best, and raise Elisa to the top. And sadly, this Community has > silently fallen into the darkness... > > I'm still lacking time, but I'm not happy with this situation. And I > don't like to be unhappy ;-) > So I've talked with several people and our Fluendo friends, and we > come the this: > they (Fluendo) would be happy to take the leadership, but need a few more > months > to complete Elisa and get some free time back. > > while waiting for this, we can revive the UMC Community slowly, by > summing up the situation, and cleaning / improving what we can. > > This is only a beginning! > Loic (Dardant) will soon come up with a summary of the remote controls > support situation. > I've not yet had news from Denis (Gautherot) about the distro. > Nor from Bhavi about UMC security, gaming and his other project. But I > know he's still working on this. > Finally, I've just had news from Oumar (wattazoom), who has lived us for XBMC. > He should also write us a bit about that. A possible path for the UMC > project might be to federate an Elisa | Mythbuntu | XBMC effort. > It's up to you, the UMC Community, to express yourself and cast your > vote about all that. > > Now, to slowly restart, I propose the following tiny tasks list: > * switch the mailing list to launchpad (Arnaud?) > * triage the applicants list (who? possibly Fluendo?) > * cleanup / update the wiki (who?) > * checkout the webserver / domain situation (who?) > > Finally, to everybody: > if you have done something on your side, even a 5 mn brainstorming > session with yourself to get a powerful idea, step up and write us a > mail. > don't be shy, every FLOSS project is built upon ideas and discussions. > Something that seems crazy can sometime become a tech breakthrough. > > cheers, > Arnaud
