http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=FirstSponsors 2026-07-21T22:34:17Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.44.0 http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?title=FirstSponsors&diff=20861&oldid=prev 2009-08-19T19:48:01Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 19:48, 19 August 2009</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Category: Documentation]]</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As many of you know, LinuxMCE began as branch off of Pluto&#039;s media and home automation software designed to run on a more conventional Linux distribution (Ubuntu). Pluto has not given members of the FOSS community access to commit code to Pluto&#039;s own SVN server in order to preserve their ability to license the Pluto components of the code to closed source shops. SVN is a revision control system used to track software changes, and is used to manage the development of LinuxMCE as well as a number of other software projects. But we&#039;ve been talking with Pluto about the possibility of having Pluto developers and LinuxMCE developers use the same public SVN repository for the significant overlapping bits of LinuxMCE and Pluto&#039;s software. The only real catch is that they want us to create a legal entity for LinuxMCE which can sign a code sharing agreement with Pluto.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As many of you know, LinuxMCE began as branch off of Pluto&#039;s media and home automation software designed to run on a more conventional Linux distribution (Ubuntu). Pluto has not given members of the FOSS community access to commit code to Pluto&#039;s own SVN server in order to preserve their ability to license the Pluto components of the code to closed source shops. SVN is a revision control system used to track software changes, and is used to manage the development of LinuxMCE as well as a number of other software projects. But we&#039;ve been talking with Pluto about the possibility of having Pluto developers and LinuxMCE developers use the same public SVN repository for the significant overlapping bits of LinuxMCE and Pluto&#039;s software. The only real catch is that they want us to create a legal entity for LinuxMCE which can sign a code sharing agreement with Pluto.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> </table>

Ray N http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?title=FirstSponsors&diff=8421&oldid=prev 2008-01-16T03:06:47Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 03:06, 16 January 2008</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l5">Line 5:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As part of the public SVN initiative, Pluto has pledged to help us with the necessary server infrastructure and help us set up the LinuxMCE legal entity. This includes four new servers in a colocation facility with a dedicated 100 mbit connection. The server hardware was donated by Leadman Electronics. This includes a new server to host the LinuxMCE website, forums and mailing list, a fast svn server, and three build servers to continually compile the latest versions of LinuxMCE for 32 bit and 64 bit Linux as well as Windows. Daniel Kristjansson will be given root access to all the servers and will be able to grant SVN commit access to members of the LinuxMCE community.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As part of the public SVN initiative, Pluto has pledged to help us with the necessary server infrastructure and help us set up the LinuxMCE legal entity. This includes four new servers in a colocation facility with a dedicated 100 mbit connection. The server hardware was donated by Leadman Electronics. This includes a new server to host the LinuxMCE website, forums and mailing list, a fast svn server, and three build servers to continually compile the latest versions of LinuxMCE for 32 bit and 64 bit Linux as well as Windows. Daniel Kristjansson will be given root access to all the servers and will be able to grant SVN commit access to members of the LinuxMCE community.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;b&gt;NOTE:&lt;/b&gt;We have not committed to the public SVN initiative, it is being discussed in the Developers forum.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;b&gt;NOTE:&lt;/b&gt; We have not committed to the public SVN initiative, it is being discussed in the Developers forum.</div></td></tr> </table>

Danielk http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?title=FirstSponsors&diff=8420&oldid=prev 2008-01-16T03:05:29Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 03:05, 16 January 2008</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l3">Line 3:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 3:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>One of our weaknesses is the lack of an elegant design tool for creating an attractive user interface, currently theming both LinuxMCE and Pluto&#039;s software is a black art and is difficult to approach for even very talented graphics designers. Pluto had been working on developing an entirely new user interface. But there has been such enthusiastic support of LinuxMCE from the FOSS community that Pluto has decided to work with the FOSS community on this new user interface rather than working on it alone. KDE has a big event on January 18th at Googleplex in Mountain View, California, and several members of KDE will be attending. Pluto has sponsored a conference facility at a nearby hotel on the 19th to discuss the new user interface with members of the KDE team and any interested parties to LinuxMCE, and has agreed to pay for flight and accommodations for 2 members of the LinuxMCE community.  Read about the new UI concept here: [[UI3]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>One of our weaknesses is the lack of an elegant design tool for creating an attractive user interface, currently theming both LinuxMCE and Pluto&#039;s software is a black art and is difficult to approach for even very talented graphics designers. Pluto had been working on developing an entirely new user interface. But there has been such enthusiastic support of LinuxMCE from the FOSS community that Pluto has decided to work with the FOSS community on this new user interface rather than working on it alone. KDE has a big event on January 18th at Googleplex in Mountain View, California, and several members of KDE will be attending. Pluto has sponsored a conference facility at a nearby hotel on the 19th to discuss the new user interface with members of the KDE team and any interested parties to LinuxMCE, and has agreed to pay for flight and accommodations for 2 members of the LinuxMCE community.  Read about the new UI concept here: [[UI3]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As part of the public SVN initiative, Pluto has pledged to help us with the necessary server infrastructure and help us set up the LinuxMCE legal entity. This includes four new servers in a colocation facility with a dedicated 100 mbit connection. The server hardware was donated by Leadman Electronics. This includes a new server to host the LinuxMCE website, forums and mailing list, a fast svn server, and three build servers to continually compile the latest versions of LinuxMCE for 32 bit and 64 bit Linux as well as Windows. Daniel Kristjansson <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is being </del>given root access to all the servers and will be able to grant SVN commit access to members of the LinuxMCE community.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As part of the public SVN initiative, Pluto has pledged to help us with the necessary server infrastructure and help us set up the LinuxMCE legal entity. This includes four new servers in a colocation facility with a dedicated 100 mbit connection. The server hardware was donated by Leadman Electronics. This includes a new server to host the LinuxMCE website, forums and mailing list, a fast svn server, and three build servers to continually compile the latest versions of LinuxMCE for 32 bit and 64 bit Linux as well as Windows. Daniel Kristjansson <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">will be </ins>given root access to all the servers and will be able to grant SVN commit access to members of the LinuxMCE community<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;b&gt;NOTE:&lt;/b&gt;We have not committed to the public SVN initiative, it is being discussed in the Developers forum</ins>.</div></td></tr> </table>

Danielk http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?title=FirstSponsors&diff=8419&oldid=prev 2008-01-16T02:13:30Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 02:13, 16 January 2008</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>LinuxMCE <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is basically a modified version </del>of Pluto's software <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to allow Pluto </del>to run on a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">standard </del>Linux <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">distro</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> Until now LinuxMCE has not had its own separate code base or svn server and has been based on Pluto's code, and </del>Pluto has not given members of the FOSS community access to commit code to Pluto's <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">svn </del>server in order to preserve <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">its copyright </del>to the code.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">As many of you know, </ins>LinuxMCE <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">began as branch off </ins>of Pluto's <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">media and home automation </ins>software <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">designed </ins>to run on a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">more conventional </ins>Linux <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">distribution (Ubuntu)</ins>. Pluto has not given members of the FOSS community access to commit code to Pluto's <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">own SVN </ins>server in order to preserve <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">their ability </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">license the Pluto components of </ins>the code <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to closed source shops. SVN is a revision control system used to track software changes, and is used to manage the development of LinuxMCE as well as a number of other software projects. But we've been talking with Pluto about the possibility of having Pluto developers and LinuxMCE developers use the same public SVN repository for the significant overlapping bits of LinuxMCE and Pluto's software. The only real catch is that they want us to create a legal entity for LinuxMCE which can sign a code sharing agreement with Pluto</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>One of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Pluto's </del>weaknesses<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, and thus LinuxMCE's, </del>is the lack of an elegant design tool <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to create </del>an attractive user interface <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with lots of skins </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">eye candy</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del>Pluto had been working on developing an entirely new user interface. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> There </del>has been such enthusiastic support of LinuxMCE from the FOSS community that Pluto decided to work with the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">LinuxMCE </del>community on this new user interface rather than working on it alone <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and making the finished product available to LinuxMCE as has happened before</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del>KDE has a big event on January 18th at Googleplex in Mountain View, California, and several members of KDE will be attending. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> So </del>Pluto has sponsored a conference facility at a nearby hotel on the 19th to discuss the new user interface with members of the KDE team and any interested parties to LinuxMCE, and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Pluto </del>has agreed to pay for flight and accommodations for 2 members of the LinuxMCE community.  Read about the new UI concept here: [[UI3]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>One of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">our </ins>weaknesses is the lack of an elegant design tool <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for creating </ins>an attractive user interface<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, currently theming both LinuxMCE and Pluto's software is a black art </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is difficult to approach for even very talented graphics designers</ins>. Pluto had been working on developing an entirely new user interface. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">But there </ins>has been such enthusiastic support of LinuxMCE from the FOSS community that Pluto <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">has </ins>decided to work with the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">FOSS </ins>community on this new user interface rather than working on it alone. KDE has a big event on January 18th at Googleplex in Mountain View, California, and several members of KDE will be attending. Pluto has sponsored a conference facility at a nearby hotel on the 19th to discuss the new user interface with members of the KDE team and any interested parties to LinuxMCE, and has agreed to pay for flight and accommodations for 2 members of the LinuxMCE community.  Read about the new UI concept here: [[UI3]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Pluto has <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">agreed </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sponsor LinuxMCE and provide </del>necessary infrastructure. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del>This includes four new servers in a colocation facility with a dedicated 100 mbit connection. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del>The server hardware was donated by Leadman Electronics. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del>This includes a server to host the LinuxMCE website, forums and mailing list<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.  There is also an </del>svn server<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.  And there are </del>three build servers to continually compile the latest versions of LinuxMCE for 32 bit and 64 bit Linux as well as Windows. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del>Daniel <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">K </del>is being given root access to all the servers and will be able to grant <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">svn </del>commit access to members of the LinuxMCE community.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">As part of the public SVN initiative, </ins>Pluto has <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">pledged </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">help us with the </ins>necessary <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">server </ins>infrastructure <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and help us set up the LinuxMCE legal entity</ins>. This includes four new servers in a colocation facility with a dedicated 100 mbit connection. The server hardware was donated by Leadman Electronics. This includes a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">new </ins>server to host the LinuxMCE website, forums and mailing list<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, a fast </ins>svn server<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, and </ins>three build servers to continually compile the latest versions of LinuxMCE for 32 bit and 64 bit Linux as well as Windows. Daniel <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Kristjansson </ins>is being given root access to all the servers and will be able to grant <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">SVN </ins>commit access to members of the LinuxMCE community.</div></td></tr> </table>

Danielk http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?title=FirstSponsors&diff=8416&oldid=prev 2008-01-15T23:58:59Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 23:58, 15 January 2008</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Editing</del>....  <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">One moment</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">LinuxMCE is basically a modified version of Pluto's software to allow Pluto to run on a standard Linux distro</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> Until now LinuxMCE has not had its own separate code base or svn server and has been based on Pluto's code, and Pluto has not given members of the FOSS community access to commit code to Pluto's svn server in order to preserve its copyright to the code.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">One of Pluto's weaknesses, and thus LinuxMCE's, is the lack of an elegant design tool to create an attractive user interface with lots of skins and eye candy.  Pluto had been working on developing an entirely new user interface.  There has been such enthusiastic support of LinuxMCE from the FOSS community that Pluto decided to work with the LinuxMCE community on this new user interface rather than working on it alone and making the finished product available to LinuxMCE as has happened before.  KDE has a big event on January 18th at Googleplex in Mountain View, California, and several members of KDE will be attending.  So Pluto has sponsored a conference facility at a nearby hotel on the 19th to discuss the new user interface with members of the KDE team and any interested parties to LinuxMCE, and Pluto has agreed to pay for flight and accommodations for 2 members of the LinuxMCE community.  Read about the new UI concept here: [[UI3]]</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Pluto has agreed to sponsor LinuxMCE and provide necessary infrastructure.  This includes four new servers in a colocation facility with a dedicated 100 mbit connection</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> The server hardware was donated by Leadman Electronics</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> This includes a server to host the LinuxMCE website, forums and mailing list</ins>.  <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">There is also an svn server.  And there are three build servers to continually compile the latest versions of LinuxMCE for 32 bit and 64 bit Linux as well as Windows.  Daniel K is being given root access to all the servers and will be able to grant svn commit access to members of the LinuxMCE community</ins>.</div></td></tr> </table>

Aaron.b http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?title=FirstSponsors&diff=8415&oldid=prev 2008-01-15T23:43:33Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 23:43, 15 January 2008</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Editing....</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Editing...<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.  One moment</ins>.</div></td></tr> </table>

Aaron.b http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?title=FirstSponsors&diff=8414&oldid=prev 2008-01-15T23:43:23Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 23:43, 15 January 2008</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Until now</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Editing...</ins>.</div></td></tr> </table>

Aaron.b http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?title=FirstSponsors&diff=8413&oldid=prev 2008-01-15T23:39:18Z

<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Until now.</div>

Aaron.b