Proposal for the new Fedora Project

[Mike McGrath]

On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, David Nalley wrote:
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>
> Hi Mike:
>
> I find this conversation extremely interesting. I even remember
> discussing the importance of fedorahosted with you not too many months
> distant. I also see even the 'traditional' desktop folks are talking
> about this. At OLF earlier this month, Stormy Peters, the executive
> directory of the Gnome Foundation gave a talk on 'Stealing the
> Desktop' and how the cloud is becoming the platform, and that it lacks
> the 'freedom' that we take for granted with our Linux installations.
> Phil Robb, the HP's Open Source & Linux group's Engineering Manager
> gave a presentation on the 'Irrelevance of the Desktop' So I certainly
> think you aren't alone in your observations.
>
> So your proposal talks about what the end goal is (ASF-like
> organization that fosters cloud and other groups and helps provide the
> tools around it) what steps in the next 6 months to a year would put
> us on the path to achieving that?
>

Step one is buy in from the board
Step two is finding partnership with other groups.  The mozilla foundation
for example.
Step three is finding someone or creating a small group to oversee the
new development.  Much like FESCo does with the OS today.

Those are the "next 6 month" goals I'd put forth.

	-Mike