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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/5/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mike Massonnet</b> <<a href="mailto:mmassonnet@gmail.com">mmassonnet@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 11:19:45PM -0500, Erik Harrison wrote:<br>> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Brian J. Tarricone <<a href="mailto:bjt23@cornell.edu">bjt23@cornell.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
> > Hi all,<br>> ><br>> > As some of you already know, I'm in the process of applying to Google's<br>> > Summer of Code as a mentoring organisation. Xfce applied in 2006, but<br>> > wasn't accepted. I don't really know why, but hopefully this year we<br>
> > can do a bit better. To that end, I've created a few pages on our wiki,<br>> > and people have been working on them for the past couple weeks:<br>> ><br>> > <a href="http://wiki.xfce.org/gsoc-2008-ideas">http://wiki.xfce.org/gsoc-2008-ideas</a><br>
> > <a href="http://wiki.xfce.org/gsoc-2008-mentors">http://wiki.xfce.org/gsoc-2008-mentors</a><br>> > <a href="http://wiki.xfce.org/gsoc-2008-students">http://wiki.xfce.org/gsoc-2008-students</a><br>> ><br>
> > Now, we won't know if we've been accepted into the program until March<br>> > 17th. However, I'd like to generate some interest for our participation<br>> > in the program; in particular, I'd like to get some names on that<br>
> > 'students' wiki page.<br>> ><br>> > So, if you don't mind, if you have a blog, or some other means of<br>> > publishing to a group of people (via means other than spam, of course),<br>
> > could you please do a little advertising for us? Just point out that<br>> > we're applying to the program, we're looking for student participants,<br>> > and give a link to our wiki page (the main 'ideas' page).<br>
> ><br>><br>> I no longer hang out on the Xubuntu mailing lists, but if someone<br>> around here does perhaps this info could be forwarded on? I remember<br>> the early days of the list being full of people asking for<br>
> enhancements or changes to the core desktop, I imagine there would be<br>> a lot of interest. Similar for any other substantial distribution that<br>> uses Xfce as the default desktop.<br><br>Yeah, and the Ubuntu folk is mainly young, so I bet there can be<br>
students interested.</blockquote>
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<div>I'll put up a note on <a href="http://xubuntu.wordpress.com">xubuntu.wordpress.com</a> and forward this to the xubuntu-devel (or perhaps -users?) mailinglist this afternoon (Dutch time). </div><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Cheers<br>mike</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all">Best,<br>-- <br>Vincent