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Xubuntu team report for September 2008

Artwork

• Jmak is waiting for usplash to be updated.
• Jmak is working on finalizing icon and gtk theme details.

Community

• Cody (cody-somerville) will be sending an updated version of Strategy Document to CC by end of month for final reading.

Documentation

• Nothing to report.

Marketing

• Pasi Lallinaho appointed as Xubuntu Marketing Lead.
• Pasi has begun work on redesigning the Xubuntu website.

• Pasi developed a countdown banner for Xubuntu Intrepid release, see [http://emonk.fi/open/xubuntu/xubuntu-countdown-draft-2.png draft]

• Vincent (vinnl) appointed as Xubuntu Website Lead.

Packaging, Development, & Testing

• Alpha 5 and 6 released.
• Updated xubuntu-artwork-usplash to provide usplash-theme.
• Found bug in germinate that was causing Ubuntu's usplash package to be pulled in and overwrite ours.
• Fixed bug where xscreensaver was being pulled in.
• Several packages updated (such as thunar-thumbnails).
• Jannis, Michael, and Cody have begun looking at getting Thunar-Samba in Intrepid.
• Michael (NCommander) has been appointed as the Xubuntu Debian Liaison.
• Jannis (JPohlmann) has been appointed as the Xubuntu Xfce Liaison.
• NCommander packaged xfce 4.6 alpha "pinkie" into Xubuntu Developer PPA.
• Charlie Kravetz is working on organizing a hug day that brings upstream developers, Ubuntu developers, Xubuntu developers, and xubuntu community contributors, testers, and users together.
• Seeded "Listen" to see if people like that better than Audacious; needs work if we're going to ship it.