Hi Erich, Great initiative. If you need an extra pair of hands for package creation / testing, count me in.
Let me know how we can start working together. best regards | Paulo Dias | paulo.miguel.d...@gmail.com *Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.* On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 5:07 PM Erich Eickmeyer <eeickme...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Many of you already know me. I've been working on Ubuntu Studio for the > past 3 > years, basically bringing it back from the dead and moving it to Plasma. > Since > then, I have become a MOTU and part of the Ubuntu Community Council. > > Back in July I appeared on Big Daddy Linux Live to talk about Ubuntu > Studio > and answer any questions. This attracted the attention of Mike Mikowski of > MindShareManagement, the company creating the Kubuntu Focus computers. > Back in > November, he brought me on to the project, and I am now the Director of > User > Experience and Packaging as my day job. I also get the privilege of > working > with Rick Timmis, one of the Kubuntu Counselors. > > One thing we had been noticing is that Rik Mills is tackling most of the > maintenance work by himself, and that the Backports repository can no > longer > carry the latest Plasma as it could historically since it requires a newer > Qt. > Having found a solution, I approached Rik about this, and we decided it > might > be best to create a new PPA for those adventurous enough to have a newer > Qt > and, therefore, Plasma. Basically, I'd be paid to do this as part of my > job. > > Additionally, I want to help out in whatever way I can, since helping > Kubuntu > also helps Ubuntu Studio. > > In order to do this, I respectfully request to join these teams: > ~kubuntu-ninjas > ~kubuntu-dev > ~kubuntu-ppa > > My launchpad name is ~eeickmeyer > > Rik and I also discussed perhaps creating a new team to deal with this > highly- > adventurous endeavour. We plan to discuss this on Saturday the 27th. > > Let me know if you need anything else. > > Thanks, > Erich > -- > Erich Eickmeyer > Project Leader, Ubuntu Studio > Council Member, Ubuntu Community Council-- > kubuntu-devel mailing list > kubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel >
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