LXDE SIG

Mission

The LXDE SIG (Special Interest Group) is a group of Fedora contributors that contribute towards LXDE in Fedora. Their mission is to define a high-quality LXDE experience to Fedora users and developers in maintaining packages, documentation, infrastructure and helping each other in all LXDE related efforts.

Fedora LXDE Spin

Christoph Wickert initiated the effort to create a Fedora LXDE spin (A installable Live CD) for Fedora 12 and above releases. It is now maintained collectively by the LXDE SIG.

• Fedora LXDE Spin

References

• LXDE on Fedora
• The official LXDE Website
• LXDE Wiki
• Fedora in the LXDE Wiki

Participants

• Christoph Wickert (maintains most LXDE packages and the LXDE Spin)
• Mario Behling (Marketing, Ambassador)
• Marcus Schulderinsky (Marketing, Ambassador)
• Sebastian Vahl (lxpanel Maintainer)
• Marc Wiriadisastra (leafpad Maintainer)
• Simon Wesp (Tester)
• Edward Kirk (Tester)
• Frank MMurphy (Tester)
• Jóhann B. Guðmundsson (QA)
• Hon Nguyen (Tester)
• Pavel Roskin (QA, documentation)
• Mamoru TASAKA (libfm / pcmanfm maintainer)
• Glenn Johnson (Tester)

Joining the SIG

Joining the LXDE SIG is as simple as being part of Fedora and having a love for LXDE. Once you are a contributor to Fedora, you can join the SIG by adding your name above and communicating with the rest of the team in the usual Fedora channels .

How you can help

If you have no idea how to help us with providing a good and qualitative excellent release of LXDE in Fedora here are some proposals where we need help:

• Packagers: There are so many interesting packages that are not yet packaged for Fedora. Package it to improve the user experience.
• Reviewers: Only a few persons are doing the LXDE-related reviews. Help us reviewing so that more packages could be included.
• Testers: If you love LXDE use the development version or the updates-testing repository and report bugs, bugs, bugs, request enhancements or features. We need your feedback to improve LXDE.
• Bugs: Become a BugZapper and help us with LXDE related bugs.
• Documentation writers: Make sure that documentation of LXDE is high quality and complete in Fedora.
• Release Notes: Help with writing the release notes
• Wiki: Maintain http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LXDE and keep it updated with end user information.
• Artists: To provide a matching theme for nodoka-theme and other LXDE related artwork

IRC Channel

We have informal chats about LXDE development in #fedora-devel IRC channel in freenode. Refer to Communicate page for more information.