Edubuntu 16.04 and beyond

Tue Mar 29 23:08:42 UTC 2016

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 3:11 AM, Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
Hi everyone,

> I'm sending this e-mail on behalf of the current Edubuntu project
> leaders, Jonathan Carter and myself.
>
> Jonathan and I have both been involved in Edubuntu for a long time
> (almost 10 years for Jonathan and almost 9 for me). We were at first
> just contributors, then became council members and after the council got
> disolved due to lack of candidates, as the two project leaders.
>

Thank you both for everything you, the community behind the project and
everyone else had done!

>
>
> A lot changes in that many years and while at the start we both had a
> considerable amount of spare time to invest in making Edubuntu great,
> even getting paid for it at times, that is simply not the case anymore.
>

Totally understand.

>
> We've both moved on to new projects, with the hope that we would one day
> find some time to work on Edubuntu again. That's why we decided to make
> Edubuntu LTS-only after the 14.04 release, hoping that over the course
> of two years we would find the needed time to make a good Edubuntu 16.04
> LTS.
>

Good luck with the new projects :)

>
> This plan didn't quite work out as we're now a month away from the 16.04
> release with little to no work having been done on Edubuntu.
>
> We could of course patch things up a bit, drop the things that don't
> work and call it good enough. But we don't think that would be fair to
> our users who are expecting a well thought through distribution where
> all details have been taken care of.
>

I understand.

>
>
> That's why I'm announcing today that Edubuntu will NOT be releasing a
> 16.04 LTS version. Instead, Jonathan and I will focus on ongoing support
> of Edubuntu 14.04 LTS until it goes EOL in April 2019.
>

Sad but true.

>
>
> That's not to say that Edubuntu is dead, at least not yet.
>

Glad to know :)

>
> While Jonathan and I will solely focus on fulfilling our promise of
> support for Edubuntu 14.04 LTS, new contributors are absolutely welcome
> to take over the Edubuntu project and shape it to their liking.
>

I'm replying this email to announce publicly that I'd like to take over the
project and hopefully after 16.04, there might be a new version/release.
Whatever the case is, I'm interested to take over :)

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad

I've been involved with many projects for many years.
For the last 2 years, I've become very interested and super active in
Education and E-Learning. I have my own projects which focus on Education
and it's a great chance for Edubuntu to play a major role and take a part
in what I'm doing and what I'm very interested in.

I have a quick idea in mind but can't just share it at the moment unless I
make sure it will work. Those who have worked with me for years, they know
for a fact that when it comes to ideas, I'm one of those who could make a
real change.

You may want to have a look at my wiki page above.

> .
> The two of us will be happy to sponsor any Edubuntu related uploads,
> will help new contributors get Edubuntu membership and then hold
> elections to setup a new Edubuntu Council which would finally take
> the whole project over from us.
>
>
If you agree that I take over, it would be great if I still can get some
help/support from you both or from whoever else involved :)

>
> Should none of that happen by the time Ubuntu 17.10 is released,
> Jonathan and I will ask the Technical Board to revoke Edubuntu as an
> official flavour and will be removing any leftover packages from the
> archive, remove our seeds and any cdimage build integration, effectively
> removing Edubuntu from the Ubuntu release process.
>
>
I don't and I hate to see that happens!

>
>
> While a bit late as far as announcing this, I think our plan fulfills
> the "Step down considerately" clause of the Ubuntu Code of Conduct,
> allowing for new contributors to pick things where we left them or to
> come up with a completely new vision if they prefer.
>
>
Sad about that but I think that's the best thing to do!

>
>
> It's been a fun ride for the two of us and we very much hope that this
> won't be the end of Edubuntu but instead a new beginning for this great
> Ubuntu flavour!
>

Yet again, wish you both the ultimate best :)

>
> Sincerely,
>
> The retiring Edubuntu project leaders, Jonathan Carter and Stéphane Graber.
>
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Thank you!

-- 
Remember: "All of us are smarter than any one of us."

Best Regards,
Ali/amjjawad <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad>
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