-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:40:44 +0300 Pasi Lallinaho <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/15/2011 05:02 PM, Simon Steinbeiß wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I guess most of you know me as a contributor to xubuntu-artwork. Today I'd > > like to nominate my collegue and friend Pasi Lallinaho for Xubuntu Project > > Lead. > > I have known Pasi for years now, in fact he was already contributing to > > Xubuntu as Marketing Lead when I slowly joined #xubuntu-devel, so that's > > where I first encountered him. My experience working with him as a member > > of the Xubuntu team as well as Project Lead of the Shimmer Project has been > > very positive. He is a very creative thinker and tends to have opinions on > > matters at hand, but he's also open for other people/opinions. > > > > Personally I think a team leader needs to have quite a few different > > qualities, being cooperative is one of them. Another important factor is > > whether a team leader has a vision of the project, in this case something > > like "What should Xubuntu be". In these respects I think Pasi is an > > excellent choice as team leader, he's good at encouraging people to > > contribute (at least he managed with me ;) ) and he is able to give > > guidance and direction. > > > > I think for the Xubuntu project the upcoming releases will be very > > challenging: the ever annoying changes by Canonical/Ubuntu ignoring what > > its smaller spin-off projects need/have, the chance of picking up new users > > from the transition to Gnome3, competition (as well as cooperation) with > > other *buntus (Lubuntu, Ubuntu Studio) as well as building/maintaining a > > healthy (and probably closer) relationship with upstream (Xfce devs). > > Those issues seem to be rather important and I believe that Pasi can help > > the project to get the best out of these challenges for the project. > > > > Last but not least I'd like to say that I appreciate Charlie Kravetz both > > personally and in the ways he has contributed to the Xubuntu project as > > project lead in the past releases, so this nomination is not meant as > > critique or disapproval of him or his work. But I think that it's healthy > > to have a change of project lead every once in a while and get some fresh > > input. > > Another point is that I think that if we're voting for a new project lead, > > there should at least be two nominations, otherwise people don't even have > > a choice - so here you go :) > > > > I'm looking forward to an interesting election on the 23rd, > > Simon Steinbeiß > > Thanks Simon, for the nomination, and the kind words. > > Per procedure, I confirm that I am willing to serve as the new Xubuntu > Project Lead. > > You can find my wiki page for the Project Lead vote at > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PasiLallinaho/XPL. The page includes a brief > history of me and Open Source, as well as some thoughts about the > Xubuntu community and future challenges. If you want, feel free to add > your support on the wiki page. > > Cheers, > Pasi > Welcome to the nomination stage of the election for Xubuntu Project Lead. Congratulations on this nomination. This is a nomination to be proud of. I will wish you the best of luck. I will also say "Thank you" for accepting this nomination. I agree wholeheartedly that an election with a single nominee is a not a choice. - -- Charlie Kravetz Xubuntu Project Lead Linux Registered User Number 425914 [http://counter.li.org/] Never let anyone steal your DREAM. [http://keepingdreams.com] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJOmd09AAoJEFNEIRz9dxbADW4IALJrP7Z8S9uaC3a4zQ7PR3G0 XesGe0zI5BI6m60bCIvXI4YjvkP5pVKQsquexVt+EAeiBWqJh+wgUdUJ6nV9afIO fllrPtzbKFeQ84zxRgQKuzvnnEUBB/me18AwG+NqxLx1xtqkKKeSLKwrioESsoX1 oRuKkdzHEkl7TGAbbSD0Jfz245a6r0WMgHgfZ/3cKapTo7qgHOcPuKzp4m+ANR1m 52JDqey7/ecIsRma7eVdgz6n02kjDNkZD+vfqKtrFLXVzMehMn4jbJ1dptDWc9D1 zvga4/SYkCa3eUUVDf1cmLVUt2U2d4+q1nxfkLPWz/AArtoxgU02JArjjV+lW3A= =+NyD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
