[Ubuntu-ch] Ubuntu release party IRC meeting minute

[Tribaal]

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Good point on the support issue - I should have thought of that.

Scrap that then, I'll customize my own Swiss version for my personal
amusement ;)

- - Trib'

Stéphane Graber wrote:
> Tribaal wrote:
>> Hey Matthias!
> 
>> Good to know you'll make a Swiss version again!
> 
>> We'll love to have some this year too of course. I don't know how many
>> people will attend, nor how much this represents in hard money... but
>> would 500 CDs seem like a reasonable amount?
> 
> We had 300 (mixed Kubuntu, Ubuntu and Edubuntu) last time and I brought
> back home like 50 of these, so yes 500 is a reasonable amount as we plan
> to have a lot more people at those two release parties.
> 
>> I would like to submit a couple of improvement points for the Swiss
>> remix. Since I have no idea how technically difficult it is to
>> implement, please bear with me :)
> 
>> 1. Having a Yoddle or cowbell as a login sound would be a funny touch
>> (yes, I know, it's a stereotype, but it's fun)
>> 2. Is there any way to make the language selection menu part of the
>> "main menu" instead of the F2 thing?
> 
> The problem I see with those two changes (especially the session sound)
> is that you'll need to change the configuration which comes with two
> packages (language-selector and ubuntu-sounds) and that may trigger some
> weird bug/conflicts if and update of one of those packages is later
> uploaded (which is likely as it's a LTS).
> 
> I would recommend to do as little change as possible, we want it to be
> stable and rock solid + we want the users to be able to get professional
> support from companies like Canonical, which is not possible if the main
> packages are changed.
> 
> Have a CD with a different package set is fine as long as all of them
> comes from the official repositories and for a LTS I would suggest to
> use only packages from main to avoid possible support issues.
> 
>> Just a couple of ideas... Anyway, the previous version was very
>> successful as it is now, there is no real need for improvement :)
> 
>> Take care :)
> 
>> - Trib'
> 
> Stéphane
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