Sponsorship deadline for UDS-Lucid approaching

[Scott Ritchie]

Jono Bacon wrote:
> On 09/24/2009 03:19 PM, Michael Bienia wrote:
>> On 2009-09-24 15:35:18 -0400, Jorge O. Castro wrote:
>>    
>>> Just a reminder that the deadline for applying for sponsorship to the
>>> Ubuntu Developer Summit is approaching. You have until September 28th
>>> to submit your application to http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-l
>>>      
>> Did I miss any announcements? I didn't see any announcement for the code
>> name for the next Ubuntu release (found it by coincidence on fridge) nor
>> did I see any annoucement (either on ubuntu-devel or
>> ubuntu-devel-announce) that the time for requesting sponsorship for the
>> next UDS has already begun. And was a little bit surprised that the
>> deadline is already in 3 days.
>>
>> Perhaps it's just me but I don't have the time to follow all possible
>> resources for news (-announce lists, planet.ubuntu.com, fridge, etc.)
>> all the time so some redundancy for such important news would be nice.
>>
>> I get more and more the feeling that I'm not so well informed as I would
>> like to be and I don't really like it.
>>
>>    
> Sorry to hear your experience. We posted to the Fridge and to Planet 
> about UDS and sponsorships, and also the animal name. You are right that 
> we should have posted to ubuntu-devel earler: I aplogize about that. 
> While we are shooting for the deadline in 3 days, if it is a little 
> later that will be fine too.
> 
>      Jono

In the past I would usually get an email from Mark Shuttleworth
"Announcing the Hardy Heron" or similar, with a vision and goals for the
release.  That didn't happen this time - is your blog post supposed to
be the equivalent now?

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie