=== My points of focus as the Xubuntu Marketing Lead === As of today, 29th October 2009, the "Karmic Koala" release date, my focus as the Xubuntu Marketing Lead will change. During the Karmic development cycle anything related to packaging, specific file names or configurations have been a burden for me, which I don't want to carry. In the future, I want to interact with people more and hassle with the technical side less.
For the Lucid cycle, I plan to follow the specification to grow the Xubuntu community bigger and stronger (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/Jaunty/GrowXubuntuCommunity), as it has become more clear than ever that I will not stay in the project forever. I also try to polish the Artwork Guidelines and get them in a shape they can be used for the basis for Xubuntu Artwork in the future. My other points of focus will be helping the cooperative Xubuntu/Xfce documentation team with the documentation artwork and refreshing the Xubuntu website theme once more while migrating to Wordpress, which I think is a huge improvement for the website. === Announcement: The Shimmer Project === Also as of today, I'm glad to announce the official birth of the Shimmer Project. The team I'll start leading consists of me, Steve Dodier (SiDi), James Schriver (dashua) and Simon Steinbeiß (ochosi). The reasoning behind setting up a separate group rose from my and Steves disappointment in the somewhat cold and dismissing acts of the DX (Desktop Experience) team, which lead us to do more and more work to fix things that we hadn't broken. We feel really bad that Canonical is making design decisions with only GNOME in scope and don't want to handle with fixing (in our opinion) their design flaws. Yet another thing that clearly became a burden too big is the Canonical half-yearly release schedule. With our new project we will be free of any other than our own schedules. Our first project and main focus during the next months is to create a solid theme for Xfce with beautiful artwork, a bugfree GTK+ theme and all the other bits you need to have an astonishing Xfce desktop experience. This basically replaces the stuff I cut down in Xubuntu but without having to worry too much about fixing stuff all the time. That being said, we are happy if the Xubuntu developer community decides to use our theme (again), but we are most probably going to leave most of the integration stuff to some other guys. Our IRC channel is #shimmer on freenode. All of you are welcome to join us. We will release the website address and more details later, once we get all the stuff in order. Yours truly, -- Pasi Lallinaho Xubuntu Marketing Lead Web-designer, graphic artist IRC: knome @ freenode -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
