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 -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/SCF/FEF/SLSMS Group __________________________________________________