[Ubuntu-be] IRC Meeting about ISO, USB and European Parliament REPORT - 02/06/11

[Jurgen Gaeremyn]

Wouter,

you were (rightfully) complaining about the poor quality of the Impress
templates in LibreOffice.

I once collected a set of them online (don't remember where though...)
I've put them on my dropbox - you can download them if you want:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7584025/Ubuntu_ODP_Templates.tar.bz2
(15,7 MiB uncompressed)

They can be a basis for designing - or just the plain package for our
localized CD imo...

Grtz,
Jurgen.

P.S. For the lovers of Prezi... there's a great Inkscape plugin that
creates similar SVG-presentations - it's called SoZi!


On 06/03/2011 09:20 PM, wouter Vandenneucker wrote:
> *= ISO =*
> To make stuff easier for belgian users and to gain popularity we are
> going to make our own ISO. An Ubuntu respin with a few changes that make
> life easier for Belgian Users.
> We discussed this project before, more info about that can be found at:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/LocalizedCD (these pages should be
> updated..)
> We need some people who take the lead in this project so it won't bleed
> to dead. Candidates to lead this project to victory, please step forward!
> The leader of the project needs to make sure stuff doesn't stall. Small
> decisions can be made entirly by the ISO team, that way we speed stuff up.
> 
> *PROJECT GUIDELINES:*
> Note that these guidelines are a beginning, the ISO team should try to
> endorse these guidelines. The general ideas and guidelines of Ubuntu
> need to be taken in account.
> A target date should be set in order to keep things moving. (having the
> 11.04 ISO before 11.10 comes out is crusial.)
> 
> Values:
> 
>     - We keep the official program choise of Canonical/Ubuntu but
>     include a minor amount of programs and drivers that are on general
>     interest for belgian citizens.
>     - No change to the Restricted Extra options. (due to legal issues
>     and ubuntu values)
>     - Support to the Ubuntu guidelines
>     - Endorse users to get to know their system (we can teach them with
>     video's we make)
>     - Canonical has put a serious amount of time in developing the
>     software center, we should make people use it!
>     - Keeping things simple
>     - No 'special' programs or programs only usefull to a specific type
>     of user. 
> 
> 
> Needed:
> 
>     - Both a 32bit and a 64bit version
>     - Fully supported languages by default: en, de, nl, fr (as default
>     boot language English is suggested)
>     - Based on Ubuntu 11.04
>     - Only Gnome classic and Unity interface
>     - AZERTY by default
>     - USB key should have an install icon on teh desktop once it is
>     booted in live mode.
>     - Default homepage in firefox should be Ubuntu-be.org.
>     - E-ID program and driver 
> 
> 
> Unwanted:
> 
>     - PPA's (at least for now as a PPA gives us responibility for
>     security breaches) [exception for ppa's without security issues (see
>     later)]
>     - Extra DE's
>     - Media players and other stuff that requires restricted extras
>     - 'professional' software
>     - Unity 2D (yet) (once we hit 11.10 it will be default fallback and
>     stable enough for us to integrade.)
>     - Software of which we aren't sure it's going to be supported for
>     the time the ubuntu version is supported. 
> 
> 
> Wanted:
> 
>     - (Pre-boot) GUI should list the 4 languages prior to the install
>     proces
>     - Possiblity for both a Persistent and a Pristine boot would be nice
>     (U-fr uses only persistent) 
> 
> 
> What we might want to add (later):
> 
>     - Instruction Videos should endorse our users to explorer and get to
>     know their system, yet keep it simple enough for everyone to follow 
>     Videos showing apps that might be usefull for some but not for all
>     can be handled here so people find their way to them..
>     - A PPA for Ubuntu-be containing LibreOffice Impress templates and
>     Desktop Wallpapers is adviced. 
>     Due to the lack of goodlooking LibreOffice Impress templates, the
>     Desktop Wallpapers are just a way to promote ourselves..
>     might be added later, no need to stall the project for this..
>     we could ask OSPublish to make us a wallpaper
>     - We could make some dedicated distro's as well afterwards (a
>     kubuntu one, or a rescue version..)