I am a long term KDE user and have tried many KDE based distros in the past in order to find my personal favourite. A while ago I settled with Kubuntu. I like it but there’s room for improvement. I always hoped Canonical would put more weight behind it. Then Mark Shuttleworth announced that he was now using Kubuntu on his desktop machine and said he wanted Kubuntu to move to a first class distribution within the Ubuntu community. But not much happened since - except that Jonathan Riddell is now employed by Canonical to work on Kubuntu. However, there’s news on this now: Mark Shuttleworth writes about his ideas for Kubuntu:

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This is an invitation for the Kubuntu and KDE community to join us at LinuxTag on 6 May in Wiesbaden near Frankfurt to chart the future course of Kubuntu. We will hold a series of meetings and presentations on the structure of Kubuntu and Ubuntu, the goals of the project, and an open discussion on how Kubuntu can come to represent the very best example of KDE in action.

I believe that the KDE community does phenomenal work, and having a community-driven distribution to showcase that work will help attract users and developers to the project. Our overall goal in the Ubuntu project is to further the adoption of free software on the desktop and the server, and we recognise that KDE is an essential part of the mix of desktop environments that allows people to find the best environment for their needs.

During the course of these discussions I would like us to nominate a core leadership team for Kubuntu which can take overall technical responsibility for the desktop, as well as teams to drive artwork, documentation, quality assurance, translation, marketing and distribution.

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