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Xubuntu team report for March 2008

Artwork

• Artwork completed and uploaded.

Community

• An important Xubuntu community meeting took place on March 26th where an initial Xubuntu mission statement was agreed upon.

• Cody Somerville (CodySomerville) was appointed the new Xubuntu team leader.

• Cody Somerville (CodySomerville) was tasked with developing a strategy document for Xubuntu that describes how Xubuntu will go about achieving its goals.

• Jim Campbell (j1mc) joined the Xubuntu Team.

Documentation

• Documentation was completed and uploaded.
• Translation efforts are underway.
• Work has begun on a total revamp of the Xubuntu wiki.

Marketing

• Xubuntu 8.04 Beta announcement was released on the Ubuntu wiki.

Packaging & Development

• A new upstream version of gnumerics with lots of bug fixes was merged and uploaded.
• New upstream version of xfce4-clipman-plugin synced.
• Openoffice.org was successfully unseeded and is no longer shipped on Xubuntu cds.
• A number of merges and syncs from debian.

Testing

• Xubuntu 8.04 Beta desktop i386 and destkop amd64 were tested and released.
• Xubuntu 8.04 Beta alternative i386 and alternative amd64 are due to be released on March 27th due to a bug.

Website

• The website team has nothing new to report this month. However, if anyone is interested in redoing the Xubuntu website for Hardy, please contact Cody Somerville (CodySomerville).