On 10/15/2011 07:57 PM, Charlie Kravetz wrote:
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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
Please join the Launchpad Xubuntu Users team. This is a requirement for
both voting and holding a position in the Xubuntu team.
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Charlie Kravetz
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Hey Charlie,
I am a member of the Xubuntu Users Launchpad group since 2008-09-18, per
https://launchpad.net/~knome/+participation.
Pasi
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