On 06/28/2011 10:40 AM, Shawn Thompson wrote:
> Okay, this is a little important, so read carefully:
>
> Andrew Cutler (a person I noticed on Twitter, I had emailed, and
> surprisingly responded) has proposed the formation of a  community
> consortium to help develop a common "meta-distribution" for
> community-based EL products, which could most likely also serve as a
> distribution of its own. Such a consortium would have a governance
> model modeled on those of Debian (a meritocracy with an elected
> board), a level of accountability that is currently lacking in another
> popular distribution (which for the purposes of this message, will not
> be named. since it'd be like a drop of blood dropped in a pool of
> piranhas), and an infrastructure for building (packages. patches,
> ISO's) and communication (web site, wiki, mailing lists, forum, bug
> tracker, Koji and Bodhi?)
>
> The key goals of this will be to "[put] in place the necessary
> framework to ensure a healthy generic RHEL eco-system", and to reduce
> the fragmentation/duplicated effort. Such a project could benefit us
> all, from Scientific, ClearOS, and even Oracle (according to him)
>
> Now, the best part of this plan, is that we already have some support.
>  From the people he's discussed this with, the support has been quite
> positive. OrionVM (an Australian cloud service provider) has also
> supported this intuitive, and will be able to provide it with hosting
> facilities. He also runs a consulting company in the country, Adlibre,
> which would also be able to provide resources.
>
> So, here comes the real question. I'm not calling this a Yes or
> No/Life or Death, question just yet. I'm not trying to call a
> referendum on the same scale as Quebec trying to split from Canada
> (which was a ''really'' close vote the last time they tried to do so);
> would our community support participating in such a consortium? If we
> did, I could just see a nice shiny board member seat with Troy's name
> on it.
>
> Sincerely
> ~Shawn

Hi Shawn,
Before I comment on anything, can you send us the link to this original 
proposal and/or discussion.

Troy
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