Fedora and MeeGo

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 04:22:38PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> I agree, especially as its now part of the Linux Foundation. Also
> while there have been quite significant changes to the Fedora base
> they started from (like sysvinit no longer exists) the fact they used
> the Fedora 12 ARM support to boot strap their ARM port shows that
> there's still reasonable cross over between the platforms.
> 
> Let me know where I can help out.

Peter and I were contacted by Brian Proffitt at the Linux Foundation
today and are working up a response.

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