Making Sense of the Kubuntu/Canonical Leadership Spat
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Making Sense of the Kubuntu/Canonical Leadership Spat
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By now the news has spread quite quickly; the Ubuntu Community Council (or “CC” for short) had attempted to boot Jonathan Riddell as a community leader, asking him to “take an extended break” from the Kubuntu Council (“KC” for short) citing personality conflicts and breaches of the Ubuntu code of conduct.
So, what just happened? On the various news sites and through some broken telephones there’s several misconceptions about what happened. Being an outsider the whole issue is rather complicated, I know nothing of the structure around Canonical, Ubuntu, and these councils and how all this relates to Kubuntu.
This isn’t going to be a post about the he-said-she-said arguments, but is more of an outsiders explanation into how all this fits together and what it really means.
I’d like to mention I’ve received corrections in the comments, and would like to give a thank-you to the commenters for their feedback.
The Ubuntu Community Council has made a rather troublesome discovery regarding the accounting of $143,000 in donations. From the looks of it, no one knows how this money was spent.
The Ubuntu Community Council asked Canonical for a detailed report about the donations for the period of October 2012 to April of 2013, and they received the following reply: Community $47,769.58, Flavours $47,042.42, and Upstream $48,303.55. It might seem like a detailed report, but Ubuntu Community Council says that it doesn't know exactly how this money has been spent and what happened to it.
The discussion about how money from donations is spent have been going on for some time on the official mailing lists, but it's still not clear exactly what happened with it. Canonical says that it's impossible to track down the money and to see what has happened, at least with the current system. This is what Charles Profitt says in a very light email, containing some comments from Jonathan Riddell. The problems with donations are just bubbling over, and it's not yet clear what's going on.
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