Goal: Ship XMind through the Canonical Partner Programme (possible Google Summer of Code sub-goal)

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With Ubuntu's April 2010 Long Term Support release just around the corner,
XMind will soon have an up-to-date platform with many, many users.  The
Canonical Partner Programme (http://www.ubuntu.com/partners) seems like an
ideal way to distribute XMind.  I'd very much like to see this partnership
occur.  It seems like a very effective way to dramatically increase XMind's
user-base.

Goal: distribute XMind through the Canonical Partner Programme, for Ubuntu
10.04

Sub-goals:
1. Fix as many desktop-integration bugs as possible (mimetypes, icons,
window management integration, packaging, etc.)
2. Find someone to maintain the package in Canonical's repositories.
3. Approach Canonical with the proposition.
4. If #1 is not possible by April, meaning that XMind wouldn't be one of
the LTS's highly-publicized launch titles, then find a student to send to
Google's Summer of Code to work on this (http://code.google.com/soc)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by nstee...@gmail.com on 6 Jan 2010 at 4:54

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How possible to achieve this, to use Canonical Partner Program to distribute 
XMind?

Original comment by stephen0...@gmail.com on 26 Jan 2010 at 4:01

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I think this is the page you are looking for: http://www.ubuntu.com/partners/ISV

Clicking "contact us" at the bottom of this page:
http://www.ubuntu.com/partners/softwareprogramme will let you get in touch with
someone who can answer your questions.

Original comment by nstee...@gmail.com on 26 Jan 2010 at 7:43

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You can also get help with integrating java software into a Debian/Ubuntu 
system from
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JavaTeam .

Something that immediately comes to mind is that XMind shouldn't be installed to
/usr/local on a Debian/Ubuntu system.  Put it in /opt/xmind to keep everything 
in one
directory, or /usr, if it's not too much of a hassle to split things up.  While
Debian/Ubuntu have a variety of ways to make integration easier, here's a link 
to
script Archlinux users use to integrate XMind into their systems:

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xmind/xmind/PKGBUILD
from
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22394

Original comment by nstee...@gmail.com on 8 Feb 2010 at 9:55

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Just over one month until 10.04 ships.  Has there been any progress with this?

Original comment by nstee...@gmail.com on 22 Mar 2010 at 7:59