[Ambassadors] Centos - RedHat - Fedora

[Robyn Bergeron]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jens Kühnel" <fedora at jens.kuehnel.org>
> To: ambassadors at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2014 4:06:17 PM
> Subject: [Ambassadors] Centos - RedHat - Fedora
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I got the following emails from the Centos mailing list. I first checked
> the calender for April 1st, but that is quite some time away.
> 
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> With great excitement I'd like to announce that we are joining the Red
> Hat family. The CentOS Project ( http://www.centos.org ) is joining
> forces with Red Hat. Working as part of the Open Source and Standards
> team ( http://community.redhat.com/ ) to foster rapid innovation
> beyond the platform into the next generation of emerging technologies.
> Working alongside the Fedora and RHEL ecosystems, we hope to further
> expand on the community offerings by providing a platform that is
> easily consumed, by other projects to promote their code while we
> maintain the established base.
> 
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> 
> 
> Can some one from Red Hat confirm and does that mean the CentOS and
> Fedora Team will join even more closely than we already have.

Yes, this is true, you are not imagining things. :)

What it means for the relationship between the Fedora and CentOS communities is something that I'm sure we'll explore in the coming months. As I said in my blog post - there are many opportunities for collaboration. 

I personally think it's pretty cool - and really, kind of overdue. :)

-Robyn

> 
> This will be an exiting 2014 :-)
> 
> Greetings
> Jens Kühnel
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