Why not Xfce? (was: Re: The XO-1.5 software plan.)

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Samstag, den 16.05.2009, 08:48 -0400 schrieb Walter Bender:
> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Christoph Wickert
> <christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Am Samstag, den 16.05.2009, 12:58 +0100 schrieb Peter Robinson:
> >> >> >> We have some good news:  OLPC has decided to base its software release
> >> >> >> for the new XO-1.5 laptop on Fedora 11.  Unlike previous releases, we
> >> >> >> plan to use a full Fedora desktop build, booting into Sugar but giving
> >> >> >> users the option to switch into a standard GNOME install instead.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > If you say "OLPC has decided" I wonder who exactly made this decision
> >> >> > and when/if it was discussed in public. Can you please point us to the
> >> >> > relevant mails, meeting minutes, irc logs or whatever?
> >> >>
> >> >> I suspect (and the same goes for the post about KDE) that it was/is
> >> >> being discussed at the SugarCamp currently taking place in France.
> 
> FWIW, this decision was made through an OLPC-driven process. Those of
> us attending Sugar Camp read about it and while some of us have
> participated in discussions on IRC and mailing lists, it is not being
> discussed/decided here.

So where then? What mailing lists? What OLPC-driven process? This all
sounds mysterious to me.

> BTW, it is great to have occasional face-to-face meetings. It is a
> high-bandwidth medium of exchange. But our decisions are made in
> public forums.

Great, but I still don't know where these forums are and how I can
follow the process of decision-making.

> -walter

Regards,
Christoph