Fedora and MeeGo

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 01:43:34PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> Hi FAB,
> 
> Rahul bought up on the marketing list [1] a question as to why Fedora
> wasn't listed in the MeeGo release announcement as part of the MeeGo
> community announcement [2].
> 
> Being the maintainer of Moblin (hopefully soon to be MeeGo as soon as
> the code is released) I had two reasons why it wasn't. Firstly I
> didn't know and the MeeGo community from the corporate side of things
> seems like a Private Gentleman's Club that you need to know the secret
> handshake to become a member of (basically I'm naive when it comes to
> vendor inter realationships). Secondly I feel that it needs some form
> of board and legal agreement that its something Fedora wishes to
> pursue and that I don't have the authority to commit to that sort of
> thing.
> 
> So I ask the question is this something Fedora is interested in and
> who needs to do it. I can assist from the tech side of things but I
> feel the rest is probably best coming from someone else.
> 
> Cheers,
> Peter
> 
> [1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012453.html
> [2] http://www.linuxfoundation.org/node/6145

Thanks for this heads-up Peter -- I've sent a note along to one of the
MeeGo principals at the Linux Foundation, to inquire whether the
Fedora Project is welcome to offer its support to the list found in
that press release.  I'm interested in having Fedora provide a
ready-to-run Fedora spin that shows off MeeGo technologies, and I know
you've been working previously on doing that for Moblin, and now for
MeeGo.  Much appreciated!

The other entities do appear to be commercial ventures, so if for some
reason the LF is not interested, it's possible the answer may be
different for Red Hat.  If that's so, I'll bring this up with the
appropriate contact points at Red Hat.

I think the Fedora Project's free-in-all-senses offering is something
that really does help promote MeeGo technologies, so I hope we'll get
a receptive answer.  When that happens the Board and I will work up an
appropriate statement with you -- does that work?

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