Keeping the sub-teams active and up-to-date

2013-02-09 Thread Ali Linx (amjjawad)
Dear all, I have sent an email on 27th of Jan, 2013 (13 days ago) for each member of: 1) https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-wiki-docs 2) https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-comms 3) https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-support The email had this subject: "Team Members Activity" . Then, I have re-sent another

Re: Keeping the sub-teams active and up-to-date

2013-02-09 Thread Jackson Doak
good idea.you should forward this to all the other flavours in-case they hadn't thought of this. On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: > Dear all, > > I have sent an email on 27th of Jan, 2013 (13 days ago) for each member of: > > 1) https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-wiki-docs

Re: Keeping the sub-teams active and up-to-date

2013-02-09 Thread Ali Linx (amjjawad)
Thanks a lot, Jackson :) I'm a member of Lubuntu Team only. I don't even have @ubuntu.com email address yet :P I have absolutely no idea how the other teams are working and/or handling their members. Our Sub-Teams: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/SubTeams See also: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu

Re: Keeping the sub-teams active and up-to-date

2013-02-09 Thread Jackson Doak
Lubuntu is definitely the best managed flavour. I just wish the twitter was run better. there are 3 (i'm not sure which is the official): https://twitter.com/LubuntuLinux https://twitter.com/lubuntudesktop https://twitter.com/WOWLubuntu . can i suggest someone (or many people) tryes to make it more

Re: Keeping the sub-teams active and up-to-date

2013-02-09 Thread Ali Linx (amjjawad)
You read my mind. I was JUST about to send an email regarding this :) Sad but true, NO ONE knows who is managing these Twitter Account. I'm going to wait for few days and if NO ONE will reply saying: "hey, I do have the access over this account and this account (twitter.com/) is official" , I'

Fwd: Keeping the sub-teams active and up-to-date

2013-02-09 Thread Jackson Doak
LOL. i'm willing to help. i've forwarded this to xubuntu-devel and kubuntu-devel. On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: > You read my mind. I was JUST about to send an email regarding this :) > > Sad but true, NO ONE knows who is managing these Twitter Account. > I'm going t

Re: Keeping the sub-teams active and up-to-date

2013-02-09 Thread Ali Linx (amjjawad)
As for the twitter account, let's wait and I will let you know ;) As for forwarding, thanks and hope this will make the communications between other teams much better :) On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Jackson Doak wrote: > LOL. i'm willing to help. > i've forwarded this to xubuntu-devel and ku

Two New Channels for Lubuntu :)

2013-02-09 Thread Ali Linx (amjjawad)
Hi, As a part of Lubuntu Communication Team Activities, the team is delighted to announce two new channels for Lubuntu: Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Lubuntu/ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/Lubuntu101 Soon, yet another official channel will join which is on Twitter but that will wait lit

Re: Keeping the sub-teams active and up-to-date

2013-02-09 Thread graysooner
Who gave you the right to remove anyone from these lists? Freedom is not free. On Feb 9, 2013 3:35 AM, "Ali Linx (amjjawad)" wrote: > Dear all, > > I have sent an email on 27th of Jan, 2013 (13 days ago) for each member of: > > 1) https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-wiki-docs > > 2) https://launchpad

Re: Keeping the sub-teams active and up-to-date

2013-02-09 Thread Jared Norris
On 9 February 2013 19:35, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: > Dear all, > > I have sent an email on 27th of Jan, 2013 (13 days ago) for each member of: > > 1) https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-wiki-docs > > 2) https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-comms > > 3) https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-support > > The email

Re: [Lubuntu-comms] Two New Channels for Lubuntu :)

2013-02-09 Thread Ali Linx (amjjawad)
Hello Chris, We don't have 'an official' Google+ Community for Lubuntu yet, we just have an official page [1] on Google+ Should we have? I'm looking for your feedback about that :) There is an unofficial community for Lubuntu on Google+ [2] and Phill suggested to approach them and talk to them b

Re: Keeping the sub-teams active and up-to-date

2013-02-09 Thread Ali Linx (amjjawad)
> I personally haven't been affected by any of this but it seems odd to me > anyone would try to make it more difficult to join in. Just because someone > isn't active now doesn't mean they won't be able to contribute at a later > date. I'm more than happy for you guys to do as you please but I'm a

Re: Keeping the sub-teams active and up-to-date

2013-02-09 Thread Jared Norris
On 10 February 2013 00:23, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: > > I personally haven't been affected by any of this but it seems odd to me >> anyone would try to make it more difficult to join in. Just because someone >> isn't active now doesn't mean they won't be able to contribute at a later >> date. I

Re: Keeping the sub-teams active and up-to-date

2013-02-09 Thread graysooner
I agree with Jared. If I want to drop off the mailings, I will. I don't think anyone should remove anyone but themselves. Otherwise, you have a dictatorship. Freedom is not free. On Feb 9, 2013 8:08 AM, "Jared Norris" wrote: > On 9 February 2013 19:35, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: > >> Dear all,

Re: Keeping the sub-teams active and up-to-date

2013-02-09 Thread John Hupp
I'm not affected as a member, active or inactive, of any team. But as a beneficiary I have a stake in seeing that things work well. And I'll assert that there is a big difference between dictatorship and leadership. Ali cited the clear organizing principle which defines and stresses active me

Re: Keeping the sub-teams active and up-to-date

2013-02-09 Thread graysooner
Fine. I have been using Lubutnu and reading these mailings since before the first rrelease. It's been a long time since I posted anything at all, let alone of any value (That was to help with the old original Synaptics touchpad problems). But I regularly read through the posts. If someone decid

Re: Manually update a library? And a GetDeb question?

2013-02-09 Thread John Hupp
Regarding my last question below, I now see that Synaptic uses dpkg, so it seems very likely that despite the language of some of the documentation, there is probably only one package database shared by all the relevant tools. Enlighten me if that's incorrect. Regarding the Entangle v0.5 I wa

Re: Keeping the sub-teams active and up-to-date

2013-02-09 Thread davidson
He also notes precedent for updating the membership list. I don't see that anyone has identified a real problem here. during the process of joining a list, one usually encounters a statement of list policies, leading one to expect certain things and not to expect others. a statement like the f

Re: Keeping the sub-teams active and up-to-date

2013-02-09 Thread graysooner
Wow, that was a quick removal of me. Looks like you guys have a hard master. Been great knowin' ya. On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 12:13 PM, wrote: > He also notes precedent for updating the membership list. I don't see >> that anyone has identified a real problem here. >> > > during the process of

Re: Keeping the sub-teams active and up-to-date

2013-02-09 Thread Ali Linx (amjjawad)
No one has removed you and no one will because simply, this is a general mailing list for ALL Lubuntu Users. On a side note, would you please be so kind and stop whatever you are doing? if you want to subscribe to this mailing list, you are more than welcome. If you don't, that is your own call th

Re: Manually update a library? And a GetDeb question?

2013-02-09 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 02/09/2013 07:45 AM, John Hupp wrote: > Regarding my last question below, I now see that Synaptic uses dpkg, > so it seems very likely that despite the language of some of the > documentation, there is probably only one package database shared by > all the relevant tools. Enlighten me if th

Re: Keeping the sub-teams active and up-to-date

2013-02-09 Thread Ali Linx (amjjawad)
Thank you for sharing your opinion, we really appreciate that. Would you please be so kind and read this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/SubTeams Before joining any sub-team, one should really read that page. Problem is, most of the time/cases, people don't actually read carefully, they just sen

Re: Manually update a library? And a GetDeb question?

2013-02-09 Thread John Hupp
On 2/9/2013 4:19 PM, Jonathan Marsden wrote: On 02/09/2013 07:45 AM, John Hupp wrote: Regarding my last question below, I now see that Synaptic uses dpkg, so it seems very likely that despite the language of some of the documentation, there is probably only one package database shared by all th

Re: Keeping the sub-teams active and up-to-date

2013-02-09 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi everyone, I've tried to stay out of this, but do feel I must now back Ali up. Julien wrote the guide lines for sub teams, the teams are free to arrange themselves as they wish. From my side, on quality, I have previously used the 'reply or be removed' and will do so again. All of the mailing