<div>On 3/27/08, Jim Campbell <<a href="mailto:jwcampbell@gmail.com">jwcampbell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hello Everyone, I'd first like to start off this e-mail by announcing the Xubuntu community meeting was a *huge* success. We had roughly two dozen people take part (including old, current, and new faces) and a number of other individuals who sent in e-mails or left a quick IRC message to let us know that they were unable to attend but would be following up with much interest. After just under an hour of constructive discussion led by Jono Bacon and several free form votes, I'm happy to present following mission statement for Xubuntu: "To produce an easy to use distribution, based on Ubuntu, using Xfce as the graphical desktop, with a focus on integration, usability and performance, with a particular focus on low memory footprint. The integration in Xubuntu is at a configuration level, a toolkit level, and matching the underlying technology beneath the desktop in Ubuntu. Xubuntu will be built and developed as part of the wider Ubuntu community, based around the ideals and values of Ubuntu." Although 100% consensus was not arrived at, all participating parties did agree that it was an acceptable initial mission statement. It was decided that Cody Somerville (cody-somerville) would utilize the above mission statement to develop a strategy document which would describe how Xubuntu would adhere to the agreed mission statement. After which, another meeting would be called to discuss and find consensus on the new document. Jono then asked the crowd if they felt Xubuntu needed a leader and, if so, would it be Cody Somerville. He continued by asking if everyone would be happy if Cody lead the project based upon the earlier agreed goals, and if everyone felt that Xubuntu would REALLY KICK ARSE with Cody leading the project. Besides Jonathon Carter pointing out that Xubuntu already kicked arse (seconded by Vincent), everyone agreed that Xubuntu required a leader and that they would be happy with Cody Somerville being that leader. Finally, Jono asked Cody if he would lead the Xubuntu project. Cody agreed. 19:40 <jono> in which case we have made three important steps forward here: 19:40 <jono> 1) picked a leader 19:40 <jono> 2) agreed on a general mission statement of goals 19:40 <jono> 3) agreed that cody-somerville will develop a strategy based on that mission statement The meeting was full of energy, motivation, and excitement. You can read the full log at <a href="http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2008/03/26/%23ubuntu-meeting.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2008/03/26/%23ubuntu-meeting.html</a> between hours 1900 and 2000 or at <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Xubuntu_2008-03-26" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Xubuntu_2008-03-26</a>. If you weren't able to make it out to this meeting, be sure to catch the next one! We will announce the meeting time once Cody has had a chance to prepare the strategy document. Until that time, please feel free to join us in #xubuntu-devel.</blockquote> <div> Jim, thanks for writing this up. I was supposed to do that but Cody and I couldn't get the Gobby connection up last night, so I wanted to do it today, but I just arrived home and saw you had already done so. I think this needs a little more emphasis: 19:40 <jono> 3) agreed that cody-somerville will develop a strategy based on that mission statement Those general goals were just that, *general* goals. No priority is assigned to one issue over the other, it's just that all of these were considered good points to focus on with Xubuntu. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Thanks, Jim </blockquote></div> On 3/27/08, Eero Tamminen <<a href="mailto:oak@helsinkinet.fi">oak@helsinkinet.fi</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> "19:30 cody-somerville IMHO, I don't think we have the expertise to have a focus on performance." I can help here. I don't run Xubuntu myself currently, but I have a lot of experience on this area (what tools to use, when and how to interpret the results), please use it. </blockquote> If you could set up objective benchmarking tools, I think the Xubuntu project could greatly benefit. For now I think we should wait for Cody to come up with a strategy and the following meeting, but this could be extremely useful. Cheers, and again, congrats to Cody, -- Vincent