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[Benjamin Humphrey <humphreybc@xxxxxxxxx>]

I won't be there. It's at 4am my time.

Benjamin

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On 9 Aug 2010 13:50, "Jason Cook" <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I should be able to attend the meeting tomorrow (but no promises). I have
> also commented on the Etherpad doc.
>
> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Chris Woollard <cwoollard@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
>> I have taken the time to write down some of my thoughts.
>>
>> http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/baZkHCQiMu
>>
>> Maybe if anybody else has any it would be good to capture them also.
>>
>> I will do my best to be at the meeting tomorrow.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Chris
>>
>> On 7 August 2010 20:27, Josh Holland <jrh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > [CCing BH directly to make sure it's nice and prominent in his inbox]
>> >
>> > Hi Manual-ers,
>> >
>> > I'm writing this email with not a little bit of concern. It's now the
>> > 7th of August, barely more than 2 months to the release of Ubuntu 10.10
>> > "Maverick Meerkat", and the project feels a bit dead.
>> >
>> > I'm not trying to pin the blame on anyone in particular, but I think
the
>> > reasons for this are that certain people whose enthusiasm was the
>> > driving force behind the success of the Lucid edition seem to be
>> > spending more time writing controversial blog posts, and also the fact
>> > that we have not had a meeting in quite some time.
>> >
>> > Personally, I understand that I am poor at motivating myself to do
>> > stuff. What I think we need is a meeting ASAP to get things moving
>> > along. Unfortunately, I'm starting to come up to a pretty busy set of
>> > holidays with dubious internet access, so it is going to have to be
>> > *really* soon. I'm going away Monday evening, and will not be back
until
>> > the weekend. It's then a pretty busy week including A level results
(and
>> > associated celebrations/commiserations) on Thursday and a trip out with
>> > the Ubuntu UK folks on Saturday. Ideally, then, we could have the
>> > meeting at some point this Monday (the 9th). I'm free all day up to
>> > around 5.30 pm BST, so for now, I'm going to tentatively schedule the
>> > meeting for 1500 UTC in #ubuntu-manual. Please reply to this thread if
>> > that's unacceptable, but the important thing is to get the core team
>> > members there.
>> >
>> > The agenda will include:
>> > * Whether to continue with Lucid edition 2 or move straight on to
>> > Maverick
>> > * Whether it is practical to continue to wait for the collaboration
>> > meeting with the Docs/Learning team before writing more content
>> > * Documenting the release process more publicly and in more depth
>> > * Detailing the process for translations
>> >
>> > When the project was initially formed, a lot of the controversy was not
>> > only over whether we were filling a space that was already full, but
>> > whether we could keep our momentum up for future releases. It's a
shame,
>> > but a lot of the prophecies are coming true. We need to get working
hard
>> > now, or it could reflect badly on the whole team.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Josh Holland <jrh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >
>> >
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