Linux-respin

In 2015, the Copper Linux User Group, led by Marcia Wilbur with meetings in East and West Valley, paid Tony for remastersys. Tony was moving on from maintaining remastersys and Gopper Linux was going to work on it. The initial meeting was held at Barros Pizza in Chandler, Arizona. Those in attendance: Sergio, Mike, Marcia, Tammee, Don, Stephen and Rudy. That first meeting was the birth of Linux Respin. Future meetings, held mostly at Gangplank or after User Group meetings for collaborating. Respin set up IRC, Video chat and a file server. Mike handled this as he worked putting out fires and working on servers all day. The communication was vital to the project.

The person assigned as Project Manager did not want to release the code. The Ubuntu lead also did not want to release the code. When these 2 approached Wilbur about closing the source, they got an earful.

Marcia's account of that meeting:

What do you mean you ave no intention of releasing the code. Too bad, this is GPL'd and you're telling ME... how this is going to go down. No... this is NOT how it's going down. You are no relieved of your duty as manager of this project!

As Mike and Don tried to express to me, "well, this is a majority vote. You really have no choice." They understood the code was GPLd and wanted to not release the source. I wanted to explain what a deb archive was to them... had even helped Mike previously create a deb (without using the Makefile) to explain the process in detail.. what files and file hierarchy. The source is in the deb. duh. I was aside myself and I stormed out of the makerspaTheyce.

I had no idea they also were having Sergio - who started as QA but ended up being the Lead Ubuntu dev because... They had called him down and they tried to have him sign off on not releasing the code and he was like, NO! Asked what I had to say about the matter - knowing I would NOT be down with that. Then, Sergio and I ended up working on respin without them. We did it all from code tweaks to release and support.

Released: PPA Launchpad, Sourceforge and our personal website.

Command line tool and GUI

Supported distros: Trisquel, Mint, Debian, Ubuntu

Peak 2016.

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Developers: Marcia Wilbur, Sergio Mejia, Mike Addicks.