UPDATE: Announcement from www.kubuntu.de

[Daniel Carrera]

Mirjam Wäckerlin wrote:
> Kubuntu.de protest week – Update
> 
> The linux community received our protest with both, agreement, but
> also criticism.

I didn't see a lot of agreement here.

> Developers
> Kubuntu needs more paid developers. Even though Canonical says that
> there is one paid developer for GNOME and one KDE (seb128/jriddell),
> the rest of the paid developers rather tend to support GNOME. It would
> be reasonable to pay at least 2-3 more developers to balance, because
> only providing KDE-packages is not enough.

I think this is very unreasonable. Canonical pays one developer for 
Gnome and one for KDE. Kubuntu.de is whining that it wants more 3-4 
times more developers than Gnome gets.

> Status of the project
> What is the meaning behind Mark Shuttleworth's commitment, that he
> wants to make "Kubuntu a 1st class distribution"? Is he stepping back
> from his former declaration that Kubuntu is a pure community project
> (http://www.kubuntu.org/announcements/hoary-release.php), and is it
> planned to integrate Kubuntu permanently into the Canonical support
> system?

This isn't a criticism, it's a personal attack. You are yet to show that 
Kubuntu is being "mistreated". Reading your complaint makes me feel that 
you don't actually have a solid position so you must resort to personal 
attacks instead.

> Kubuntu should be a little more independent as a project.

You haven't actually explained what you mean by independence. You want 
to add additional packages? You want more control over the kubuntu.de 
website? I thought you already had full control over that site. What do 
you want?

> Sponsoring
> What about having another big sponsor on board?

Why is it Canonical's fault that Kubuntu doesn't have other big sponsors?

> ISO-Updates
> Is there any problem to integrate patches and security updates into
> the install- and live-iso's and to provide updates of the iso's after
> 3 months? Bugs do happen.

And what exactly do you want Canonical to do about it? You are 
complaining a lot, but you haven't actually said much about what exactly 
you want from Canonical. Your only request so far is that you want to 
have 3 or 4 developers when Gnome only gets 1.

> Community contribution (portal software)
> Except Jonathan Riddell and Andreas Mueller nobody can change the
> website of kubuntu (kubuntu.org – Andreas has gained his account back
> now, after more than two months).

Okay, so I see a second request here. You want more people to have write 
access to kubuntu.org. Why didn't you say that? Is that also what you 
meant by independence?

Look, if you want anything to change you need to actually state what it 
is you want. Write something like this:

"We want _________ to do _______"

That's the formula. Your request must include the action you want, and 
who you want to take that action.


> Trademarks
> On the site of ubuntuusers.de it is stated that they are the "official
> german portal of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu and all other Ubuntu
> derivatives". None of the concerned party is even known with a
> nickname on #kubuntu-devel or #kubuntu-de.
 >
> There is a contract between Matthias Urlichs, Julius Bloch, Marcus
> Fischer and Canonical
> http://static.ubuntu-de.org/cms/files/00/05/52/agreement.pdf) in order
> to give them the possibility to use the name "Ubuntu" for the
> association "ubuntu Deutschland e.V." over which the three preside.
> The association itself is hosting the portal ubuntuusers.de.
> But this contract doesn't entitle "ubuntu Deutschland e.V." to the
> names Kubuntu, Xubuntu and to all the other names of ubuntu
> derivatives.

Who owns the name Kubuntu and Xubuntu? If it's not Canonical then who 
else? Do *you* own the name Kubuntu?

Daniel.
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