<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Pasi Lallinaho <<a href="mailto:open@knome.fi">open@knome.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;"> jim wrote: > Hi Pasi, > > I have become interested in xubuntu to the point where I want to get > involved in the project. I am not a software engineer or even a geek. I > spent 23 years in sales and marketing and now I work work in security. I > use computers daily at work and have windows, mac and buntu at home. I > don't use a lot of the extra packages, mainly just surf the net, email > and word processing. > > I have been burning buntu distros to CD's and have installed ubuntu and > xubuntu on 3 of my co-workers home PC's. Is there something I can do to > get involved with the xubuntu team? I am open to enrollment in some type > of formal online training or even doing something right away if > possible. > > Regards, > Jim Smith > Eastern USA > State of Massachusetts > Hey Jim (CC: xubuntu-devel mailing list), we're currently starting the development for the Lucid Lynx release, which is to be released in April 2010, so you are approaching us just in the right time. No formal application is needed, you can jump right in – welcome! The best way to get contributing is to join #xubuntu-devel on the Freenode IRC network and get to know people and get yourself known. You will recognize me by the nick "knome" on the channel, if you want to talk about any marketing specific issue. You can also contact me if you have any other questions. Do not feel obliged to contact by IRC (email is okay as well), but I can be reached better in IRC. You should also subscribe to at least the xubuntu-devel mailing list [1]. You can also join the #xubuntu channel on Freenode and subscribe to the xubuntu-users mailing list [2]. The biggest tasks the marketing is going to face in the Lucid cycle is to grow the Xubuntu developer community and raise awareness about it. Other tasks include renewing the website, refreshing the artwork (which will consist mostly of polishing the Albatross theme and done by the Shimmer Project [3], which I also lead) and refreshing the documentation artwork and style. We also need to create some release artwork and raise some fuzz in amongst people about Xubuntu when we are closer to releasing. I'd like to do some rather big things (like advertising campaigns) and all the help with it is totally appreciated. Great to hear you are interested in contributing to Xubuntu. [1] <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel</a> [2] <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a> [3] <a href="http://shimmerproject.org/" target="_blank">http://shimmerproject.org/</a>, IRC channel #shimmer on Freenode </blockquote></div> And of course, if you have an ideas yourself on how to contribute (e.g. you have a great idea on how Xubuntu could be marketed better), bring them up and, if you feel like it, take the lead :) Questions can always be sent to the xubuntu-devel mailinglist if you're subscribed. Best, -- Vincent