<div dir="ltr">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. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 2:56 PM, M. Fioretti <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mfioretti@nexaima.net">mfioretti@nexaima.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello, everybody.<br>
<br>
I saw the messages on the list by Liam and others last july, but as<br>
you can see had no possibility to answer earlier.<br>
<br>
That's because in that same month I have started a totally new job.<br>
The corporation who employed me is closing the whole R&D facility<br>
where I worked, without offering any alternative robust enough to last<br>
more than ~2 years, in a moment when the Italian job market in that<br>
field basically doesn't exist (not that in other countries it looks<br>
much better if you ask me, at least in the medium/long term).<br>
<br>
This was good because, given the situation, I said thank you and left<br>
as soon as I could to do something I like better. Now I'm officially a<br>
full time freelance writer, instructor and activist in the Free SW <-><br>
civic rights field. If you have a FOSS story which is worth an<br>
article, tell me, any time.<br>
<br>
Back to RULE now. The point is that, personally, things look good for<br>
me now, but I'm in an happy mess to reorganize my whole life around<br>
the new job, and this isn't going to change soon. This wouldn't be a<br>
problem if there were activity here. We left last spring with an<br>
intent to merge RULE and Ubuntulite, but even that was left hanging in<br>
the air. Two inactive projects one active project do not make?, Yoda<br>
would say?<br>
<br>
In a nutshell: as much as I'd like to remain the coordinator, I have<br>
no time to do it, it wouldn't be honest to say otherwise; but, and<br>
here is the real issue, is there anything to coordinate anymore, even<br>
merging with Ubuntulite?<br>
<br>
This is not a critic: I'll be happy if activity resumes, so if my<br>
hypotheses above are wrong, all the better, really. Things like<br>
mini-kde or similar others are still as valid as when we started: even<br>
more now that netbooks are all the rage, and when an idea is good for<br>
different reason than those for which was conceived it means it's<br>
really good.<br>
<br>
So, if somebody can step in and make it happen it would be really<br>
great, since again I don't know if and when I could do it myself.<br>
<br>
Ciao,<br>
Marco<br>
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