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