Hi Denis, pleased to have some news ;-)
2008/10/29 Denis Gautherot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello All, > > I'm glad to hear from you now ! > > Well i'm sorry for not having given any new for a few month. I will try to > make a little summary on where i was when i leave as is the distro part of > the umc project. > I won't be available until the end of the week, so i will give an up to date > status and needed info to continue on this week end or by the next week. not sure to understand everything, but I'm eager to read your summary. cheers, Arnaud > Windows c'est comme un Tamagoshi... Même quand tu t'en occupes il meurt. > => Linux User #354241 ! > => Ubuntu User #14794 ! > > ----- Mail d'origine ----- > De: Philippe Normand > À: Arnaud Quette > Cc: UMC Team , Bhavani Shankar R , Elisa , Oumar Aziz OUATTARA > Envoyé: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:35:34 +0100 (CET) > Objet: Re: [Elisa] reviving the UMC Community > > 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 > > > -- Linux / Unix Expert R&D - MGE Office Protection Systems - http://www.mgeops.com Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/ Debian Developer - http://people.debian.org/~aquette/ Free Software Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/ -- Conseiller Municipal - Saint Bernard du Touvet - http://www.SaintBernardDuTouvet.fr/ en charge de la Communication, de l'Informatique et des Technologies
