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HiStéphane and Jonathan

Your decision is optimized - probably the best you can do at this point!

And thank you for what you have delivered to the community so far - it's 
been immensely useful to so many people, and especially at a time when 
access to computers was not yet so widely available - perhaps you had a 
greater impact than you'd expect!

Times have changed, and it's kind of hard to predict what direction 
educational computing will take - but as you have a clear and open mind 
the right path will surely materialize.

As education becomes ever more pivotal than it has been, and main-stream 
software becomes less and less educational, you have an essential and 
far-reaching mission ahead of you - I wish you great luck and supreme 
success!

Sincere regards,

Paul Schenker

On 28/03/16 00:54, Howard Kiyuna wrote:
> The email below went out recently.
>
> -----------
> Hello,
>
> I'm sending this e-mail on behalf of the current Edubuntu project
> leaders, Jonathan Carter and myself.
>
> Jonathan and I have both been involved in Edubuntu for a long time
> (almost 10 years for Jonathan and almost 9 for me). We were at first
> just contributors, then became council members and after the council got
> disolved due to lack of candidates, as the two project leaders.
>
>
> A lot changes in that many years and while at the start we both had a
> considerable amount of spare time to invest in making Edubuntu great,
> even getting paid for it at times, that is simply not the case anymore.
>
> We've both moved on to new projects, with the hope that we would one day
> find some time to work on Edubuntu again. That's why we decided to make
> Edubuntu LTS-only after the 14.04 release, hoping that over the course
> of two years we would find the needed time to make a good Edubuntu 
> 16.04 LTS.
>
> This plan didn't quite work out as we're now a month away from the 16.04
> release with little to no work having been done on Edubuntu.
>
> We could of course patch things up a bit, drop the things that don't
> work and call it good enough. But we don't think that would be fair to
> our users who are expecting a well thought through distribution where
> all details have been taken care of.
>
>
> That's why I'm announcing today that Edubuntu will NOT be releasing a
> 16.04 LTS version. Instead, Jonathan and I will focus on ongoing support
> of Edubuntu 14.04 LTS until it goes EOL in April 2019.
>
>
> That's not to say that Edubuntu is dead, at least not yet.
>
> While Jonathan and I will solely focus on fulfilling our promise of
> support for Edubuntu 14.04 LTS, new contributors are absolutely welcome
> to take over the Edubuntu project and shape it to their liking.
>
> The two of us will be happy to sponsor any Edubuntu related uploads,
> will help new contributors get Edubuntu membership and then hold
> elections to setup a new Edubuntu Council which would finally take
> the whole project over from us.
>
>
> Should none of that happen by the time Ubuntu 17.10 is released,
> Jonathan and I will ask the Technical Board to revoke Edubuntu as an
> official flavour and will be removing any leftover packages from the
> archive, remove our seeds and any cdimage build integration, effectively
> removing Edubuntu from the Ubuntu release process.
>
>
>
> While a bit late as far as announcing this, I think our plan fulfills
> the "Step down considerately" clause of the Ubuntu Code of Conduct,
> allowing for new contributors to pick things where we left them or to
> come up with a completely new vision if they prefer.
>
>
>
> It's been a fun ride for the two of us and we very much hope that this
> won't be the end of Edubuntu but instead a new beginning for this great
> Ubuntu flavour!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> The retiring Edubuntu project leaders, Jonathan Carter and Stéphane 
> Graber.
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> On Mar 26, 2016, at 8:29 AM, 陈星宇 <hnsncxy at 163.com 
> <mailto:hnsncxy at 163.com>> wrote:
>
>> Hi, All
>> I'am Peter.Chen from the China, and i like linux system, especially 
>> ubuntu. I has worked in the development of Linux driver from the 
>> beginning of 2012 based on the ARM platform.
>> I‘am very interested in ubuntu for the education, But it is a great 
>> pity that can't run in the ARM platform, i can only download it for 
>> the x86 PC. We can find many high-performance ARM platform(Eg: 
>> raspberryPi:https://www.raspberrypi.org ; 96boards: 
>> https://www.96boards.org/products/ce/hikey/ ) at present. Could you 
>> have a plan to port the edubuntu to the ARM platform ?
>> Looking forward your replay, Thanks.
>>
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