Canadian version of Ubuntu

[Daniel Robitaille]

On 8/3/06, Darryl Moore <darryl at moores.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 22:27 +0300, Rob Bowers wrote:
> > We and Ubuntu will know what we're doing when we do it. I see no
> > reason that there should be risks. Of course we'll be careful. I still
> > say we keep it uncamouflaged, straight under US patent policy's nose.
> >
> > Anyway, I guess the first concrete step is to contact Ubuntu on the
> > matter. Who will do this?
> >
>
>
> Errr, Corey? we haven't heard much from you since you said "As for a
> Canadian only version Ubuntu, I have very mixed feelings about it. It is
> a possiblity, but I would need some strong convincing."
>
> You'd be a logical one to contact them. Are you in any way convinced
> yet?
>
>

for the record, I'm not convinced of doing a full-fledged Canadian
version of Ubuntu is worth the effort.   It seems to be a lot of work
to build, to host the ISOs, to distribute the CDs, etc, for what?  A
few extra packages, and a different artwork, while 99.9% of the rest
of the distro is exactly like a standard Ubuntu.

I would suggest that a better approach is to create something like a
"EasyUbuntuCanada" script or application  that runs on  a standard
Ubuntu installation and install these different pieces and artwork for
the user; probably asking along the way which bits the user want.

It's a lot smaller and easier to host on ubuntu.ca.   For conferences
and meeting, you can always put it on a special UbuntuCanada CD that
we would produce with some other documents/marketing documents about
Ubuntu/Linux/Canada that you distribute along side the usual Ubuntu
CDs.

Daniel

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Daniel Robitaille