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[Jared Norris <jrnorris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 17 December 2011 02:20, amjjawad HOOHAA <amjjawad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Long story short:
>
> 1- I'm thinking about a Marketing Team which will be dedicated to Lubuntu
> Marketing and its members will focus ONLY on Marketing. As always, I'm
> willing to contribute and join but I just thought to propose the idea here
> and SO SORRY if this is not the right place to do that :)

Lubuntu does already have some marketing materials -
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Marketing I think the best way
forward, is as others have mentioned, is to try and assimilate with
the main marketing team - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam - so
that efforts aren't doubled up and you get the best bang for buck.

> 2- What are the chances of having a dedicated Forum JUST for Lubuntu? or
> maybe a Sub-Forum either on Ubuntu Forum or LXDE Forum? needless to say I'm
> more than up to this but again, I'd like to propose the idea here.

Most of the issues you will suffer in Lubuntu are most appropriate for
the Ubuntu forums anyway as Lubuntu is Ubuntu with a different desktop
environment. Splitting this up will only confuse users and possibly
lock them out of getting assistance from others just because no one
specific to Lubuntu knows what to do. I'm not a forums expert but the
likes of phillw who I know has a lot to do with it has always
suggested using the [lubuntu] tag on the forum if required.

> 3- Lubuntu is an official variant of Ubuntu now. Regarding the funds and
> stuff like that, is Canonical taking care of that? what if I find someone
> who can denote or help us financially?  I understand it's free OS but I'm
> working on that ... I'm looking for someone to denote or help us
> financially.

Depending on what you need funds for. Canonical will never had out
cash support to anyone but the can offer some resources for special
events if need be (for example approved LoCo teams can get marketing
materials for conferences they will have a booth at). Anything else
will have to be donated by someone. If you work on a plan on what it's
used for you might find someone willing to donate.

> 4- Like GNOME 2.xx (say Ubuntu 10.04), how can I add my username to the
> panel? is there anyway? in Ubuntu 10.04, I can see my username on the top
> panel but how hard or easy is it to do the same on Lubuntu?

Not sure, from memory that was a username switcher of some kind so
maybe look for something like that?

> That's all for now.
>
> Thanks :)
>
> --
> Best Regards,
>
> amjjawad

Keep up the enthusiasm :)

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Regards,

Jared Norris JP(Qual) BBehSc(Psych)
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris