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[Charl Wentzel <charl.wentzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jay

I have to agree with the name, unfortunately.  

Dubuntu has come up several times as some sort of Chinese development
"version" of Ubuntu.  Although I have not found a single active site or
download to which it refers that actually works.  I think it was an
initiative that died.  None the less, I don't want to step on anybody's
toes.  

I've also seen many suggestions for Devbuntu instead of Dubuntu.  So it
looks like the favourite.

If anyone disagrees, please let us know.

I'll start a separate thread in the mailing list for the website.

PS: please make sure you use "Reply to all" so that the mailing list
gets your response as well.  If you select "Reply" it only comes back to
me.  I'm not sure why or how to fix it.

Regards
Charl

-----Original Message-----
From: jay <jay.27182818@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Charl Wentzel <charl.wentzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Dubuntu-team] A couple of ideas
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:55:21 +0200


of course i'll help to create the page.. what will it be by the way? i
think we should have at least these pages:
- news (the home page)
- downloads (iso's, checksums, bittorrents etc.)
- wiki
- forum
- about

maybe more but we can adjust this list in future. everything except the
forum i'll make as a couple of php scripts or even just one html page
with javascript navigation so we will just need a very cheap server but
with enough place to store iso's. alternatively we can use some bittoren
tracker or something like rapidshare for those who don't like torrents.
to host a forum will need one database and php but for now i suggest
using google groups or something similar. and we already have a wiki.

emm.. surprise: http://groups.google.com/group/dubuntu .i guess we
really must pick up another name not to interfere with this chinese os.

check this hosting http://www.110mb.com/ they give 5Gb for free and php
5 but to activate databases you need to pay 5$ or so (less than 10$ at
least) but only once. we could test the site there before we move it to
some normal hosting. i can't suggest a good one 'caz it has been too
long ago since i researched this field last time. everything changes
very quickly.

please lemme know what a name you'll pick up. and we must determine what
the logo will look like as it will be impossible for me to start
developing the site otherwise.

best regards,
jay


On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 19:21 +0200, Charl Wentzel wrote:
> Great ideas Jay. Thanks!
> 
> Regarding the website. Thanks for checking on the names. If I register
> the site name and pay the fees, will you help create the page? I see
> you have plenty experience.
> 
> Does any body have ideas on where to host the site?
> 
> I like ideas on the threads. I'll make some time next week, but
> anybody is welcome to start threads on our mailing list. 
> 
> Regards
> Charl
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay I. <jay.27182818@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: 06 December 2008 02:59 PM
> To: Dubuntu - Ubuntu for Developers <dubuntu-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Dubuntu-team] A couple of ideas
> 
> hi guys! first of all i'd like to say it was quite brave to even dare
> to launch this project;) i was thinking for some time about the same
> idea and today i tried to search for people with similar points of
> view and almost immediately found this project and so here i am.
> recently i tried ubuntustudio and i should say such specialized
> flavors are worthwhile since they help users save their time and
> simplify their work. i know that many developers would say it's a bad
> idea to create a separate distro just for developers but you must know
> you're on the right way. well, we are..
> 
> i'm quite busy today so i just want to drop a line about myself and
> some of my ideas.
> 
> first of all we need a forum but for now we can just launch a couple
> 'standard' theads. for example:
> 'tools' for posts related to selecting which software to include into
> the distro.
> 'atrwork' for artwok discussion
> 'installer' for discussion about which installer to adopt
> etc. feel free to create these threads if you think it's a good idea.
> 
> what about package selection i think we don't need any poll at all. we
> can pick up some of the most popular tool, put them into the distro
> and release it. untill then we'll have a website and some ability to
> get user feedback for now we should base our selection on different
> topics all over the web - developers have always been asking what an
> ide to use, what language to learn and so on.
> 
> what about the name for this project, though dubuntu is good enough we
> shouldn't interfere with another distro so my vote goes to devbuntu.
> both dubuntu.org and devbuntu.org are available.
> 
> i'll try to create some artwork but i think we should be determined
> about the project name before some real artwork can be created.
> 
> about myself: i've been programming for several years for windows
> platform and for more than three years for web. since i switched to
> linux i've been developing for web and didn't accepted any of existing
> desktop technologies and am actively developing a new component model
> for my future framework. here's a short list of what i'm aware of:
> 
> expert level knowledge:
> php,mysql,apache,javascript,html/xml,css,c++,dotnet(c#,vc++)(given it
> up but still have enough knowledge),assembler
> 
> aware of:
> object pascal(haven't used for years - lazarus fails to work normally
> with gtk2 so next time maybe),java
> 
> beginner level knowledge:
> java me
> 
> best regards,
> jay
> 
>