Proposal for the new Fedora Project

[Jesse Keating]

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On 10/1/10 6:45 AM, Mike McGrath wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, David Nalley wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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.
> 

I'm curios what you actually expect Fedora to do here.  By and large
Fedora is a group of people who take upstream work and manipulate it
into packages for our distribution.  Only a small minority do any of the
upstream work itself, and even then that is directed by upstream
projects, not by Fedora.

So I'm curious, what is it you want us to do?  How can our community of
packagers.. er.. package the web?

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Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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