Note from the Team admins

Hi Ubuntu MediaCenter members,

As you probably noticed, the UMC project has been on low-profile for several months. Work has been stopped and Fluendo doesn't currently have the resources to continue on this community effort

So unless someone raises the hand to take over the UMC project, we are going to close this mailing list and the UMC/Launchpad stuff.

In the meantime Elisa became Moovida few months ago, the UI has been updated to give a more profesional end-user experience. We encourage you all to try Moovida. We really hope to have sometime in the future a better integration with Ubuntu in the spirit of UMC

Thanks to you all for your efforts on this project!

Introduction

This Team works on making the Ubuntu Media Center dream come true.

For a good definition of a Media Center, have a look at Wikipedia.

The main tasks of this Team are:

• Federate all Ubuntu and upstream forces interested in the subject and create a Development Community.
• Sum up the state of media center artwork and select a base software.

• Specify the functions and the look & feel of the Ubuntu Media Center.

• Create the needed resources (graphical and textual components) and plugins.
• Package and maintain everything needed for an Ubuntu Media Center.
• Create a specific distribution for UMC installation.
• Maintain and improve the results.
• Work closely with upstreams (Elisa, Debian, LIRC, etc.).

The Ubuntu Media Center will be both suited for desktop usage and operation as a dedicated appliance.

The base software that will be used is Elisa.

Contact

Either contact the Project Leader or the Launchpad UMC Team to get in touch with us.

We have set up a temporary mailing list for team usage, while waiting for the official umc-*@lists.ubuntu.com ones. Subscribe here.

How to Contribute

• Sign up on the launchpad page.

• Join the temporary development mailing list as described above.

• Lay down your useful skills in the Sandbox.

Projects and status

• Task name	Task status		Comments
  	Specification	Implementation
  Media Center State of the art	90 %	N/A	needs final polishing and completion
  UMC Software	50 %	0 %
  Codecs Support	20 %	0 %
  Artwork	20 %	0 %
  User Interface	15 %	0 %
  Remote controls support	100 %	30 %
  UMC Distribution	50 %	0 %
  Ubuntu Improved support for IR remote controls	95 %	10 %	only considering milestone 1
  Common user directories standardization	40 %	0 %	Under discussion with freedesktop members. See draft specification
  UMC website	?	?
  Packages creation and improvement	?	?	lirc, elisa, gstreamer / codecs, ...

Launchpad Membership Policy

Any kind of participation is welcome! So, if you feel you are motivated, and have to express ideas and/or skills in the MC area, join us!

However, we are especially looking for:

• Kernel Hackers for LIRC integration
• Graphic Designers for the UI and Artwork
• Python Developers for Elisa plugins and skins

Strike Forces

The Ubuntu Media Center Team is subdivided into Strike Forces (SF). Each Strike Force is dedicated to varying goals and projects.

• Artwork Strike Force

• Coding Strike Force

• Distribution Strike Force

• Marketing Strike Force

Meetings

Weekly IRC meetings are held on Wednesday at 7 PM UTC in #elisa on irc.freenode.net.

• IRC Meeting (September 5th)

• IRC Meeting (August 30th)

• IRC Meeting (August 8th)

• IRC Meeting (August 1th)

• IRC Meeting (July 25th)

• IRC Meeting (July 18th)

• IRC Meeting (July 11th)

• IRC Meeting (July 4th)

• IRC Meeting (June 27th)

• IRC Meeting (June 20th)

• IRC Meeting (June 13th)

• Community Council meeting (May 15th), blessing the UMC project

Status Reports

• March 15, 2007

• April 21, 2007

• May 14, 2007

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