<div dir="ltr">Greetings All,<br><br>I have not posted for a while either, but I have kept an eye on the project. I have read about the problem with the Ubuntulite name and logo on the site. I suppose a name & logo change is inevtiable. Perhaps with continued development, the project might be able to get back into Canonical's good graces. I know the strategy of one of my current groups, Team Ubuntu Singapore (<a href="http://ubuntu.sg">http://ubuntu.sg</a>) is to "prove our stuff" to Canonical so that we can gain official recognition.<br>
<br>I have enjoyed my time working on the RULE project from many years ago, and I learned quite a lot in the process. Yet a year ago, approximately, I effectively stopped participating. Personal and professional reasons, sure, but also I changed my valuation of one the core goals of RULE.<br>
<br>In my mind, I summarize that goal as follows: promote the reuse of older hardware by end users that are not interested in compiling from source, wrestling with the command line, and similar arcana of systems-level work.<br>
<br>I would be happy to delve into the details of my position, but I do not want to clog the mailing list with a treatise like that at the moment. As well, I am scrambling to get some work done on my latest project (<a href="http://softwarefreedomday.sg">http://softwarefreedomday.sg</a>) in the final days before the event (so many vendors, so little time...).<br>
<br>Once the smoke clears on my personal horizon, I will return to the Ubuntulite site to see how things are progressing. If there is a name change in DNS, please post the update to this mailing list so that I see it!<br>
<br>Although I am going in a different direction myself lately, I would still like to see RULE/Ubuntu succeed. That is also a philosophical and professional position, as it turns out. I recently signed up for the Moblin.org project. This is a typical industry-giant-led FOSS project (more and more of these keep cropping up), and as such will inevitably cater to OSVs and ISVs that are rallying around Intel's Atom-processor-based Mobile Internet Device intiative. If for no other reason, we need grassroots projects such as RULE/Ubuntulite to keep the big boys honest, and also to provide an alternate software environment for projects that need it. For example, Moblin is switching to RPM-based GNU/Linux in version 2.0, but I prefer dpkg!<br>
<br>Anyway, keep up the good works, and I'll swing by for a visit every now and then. Perhaps I'll even have time to contribute some small thought or assitance at some point.<br><br>Marco, I'm glad to hear that things are interesting for you. I would hate for you to be bored! I will be in Italy by the morning of Sunday 21 Sept. There is a possibilty that I will be near Rome by the end of the month, but that is uncertain. I will write to you directly as soon as I get a chance, which will probably be after I reach Veneto next week.<br>
<br>Cheers<br>C David Rigby, way-too-early AM in Singapore<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Shae Smittle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sds97b@mizzou.edu">sds97b@mizzou.edu</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;"><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>
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<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" target="_blank">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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software is used *around* you: <a href="http://digifreedom.net/node/84" target="_blank">http://digifreedom.net/node/84</a><br>
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