Hi
Stéphane and Jonathan
Your decision is optimized - probably the best you can do at this
point!
And thank you for what you have delivered to the community so far -
it's been immensely useful to so many people, and especially at a
time when access to computers was not yet so widely available -
perhaps you had a greater impact than you'd expect!
Times have changed, and it's kind of hard to predict what direction
educational computing will take - but as you have a clear and open
mind the right path will surely materialize.
As education becomes ever more pivotal than it has been, and
main-stream software becomes less and less educational, you have an
essential and far-reaching mission ahead of you - I wish you great
luck and supreme success!
Sincere regards,
Paul Schenker
On 28/03/16 00:54, Howard Kiyuna wrote:
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Hello,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
That's not to say that Edubuntu is dead, at least not yet.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Sincerely,
The retiring Edubuntu project leaders, Jonathan Carter and
Stéphane Graber.
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Hi, All
I'am Peter.Chen from the China, and i like linux system,
especially ubuntu. I has worked in
the development of Linux driver from the beginning of
2012 based on the ARM platform.
I‘am very interested in ubuntu for the education, But it
is a great pity that can't run in the ARM platform, i
can only download it for the x86 PC. We can find many
high-performance ARM platform(Eg: raspberryPi:https://www.raspberrypi.org
; 96boards: https://www.96boards.org/products/ce/hikey/
) at present. Could you have a plan to port the edubuntu
to the ARM platform ?
Looking forward your replay, Thanks.
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