Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
You could install KDE on top of ubuntu, then install linuxmce..LMCE does require kde, and cannot run on top of gnome.This is a big reason why it's not a repository...Also, it's such a large project, it'll plug up the repositories...