[Rule] What to do with RULE / Ubuntulite?

[Shae Smittle]

I may be bias in this statement, but I believe there has been a good amount
of development within the Ubuntulite project as of late.  We even have a
Live CD RC which seems to work about as well as the normal Ubuntu Live CD.
Right now thought there is a major crisis in UL.  Apparently the previous
person in fact did not receive permission to use ubuntulite as a name and we
are now under pressure to change the name.  At the moment we are weighing
our options.  The full-fledge embrace of UL as RULE would possibly solve the
problem to some extent, but some changes in philosophy might be warnted.

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 2:56 PM, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:

> Hello, everybody.
>
> I saw the messages on the list by Liam and others last july, but as
> you can see had no possibility to answer earlier.
>
> That's because in that same month I have started a totally new job.
> The corporation who employed me is closing the whole R&D facility
> where I worked, without offering any alternative robust enough to last
> more than ~2 years, in a moment when the Italian job market in that
> field basically doesn't exist (not that in other countries it looks
> much better if you ask me, at least in the medium/long term).
>
> This was good because, given the situation, I said thank you and left
> as soon as I could to do something I like better. Now I'm officially a
> full time freelance writer, instructor and activist in the Free SW <->
> civic rights field. If you have a FOSS story which is worth an
> article, tell me, any time.
>
> Back to RULE now. The point is that, personally, things look good for
> me now, but I'm in an happy mess to reorganize my whole life around
> the new job, and this isn't going to change soon. This wouldn't be a
> problem if there were activity here. We left last spring with an
> intent to merge RULE and Ubuntulite, but even that was left hanging in
> the air. Two inactive projects one active project do not make?, Yoda
> would say?
>
> In a nutshell: as much as I'd like to remain the coordinator, I have
> no time to do it, it wouldn't be honest to say otherwise; but, and
> here is the real issue, is there anything to coordinate anymore, even
> merging with Ubuntulite?
>
> This is not a critic: I'll be happy if activity resumes, so if my
> hypotheses above are wrong, all the better, really. Things like
> mini-kde or similar others are still as valid as when we started: even
> more now that netbooks are all the rage, and when an idea is good for
> different reason than those for which was conceived it means it's
> really good.
>
> So, if somebody can step in and make it happen it would be really
> great, since again I don't know if and when I could do it myself.
>
> Ciao,
>        Marco
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