[Fedora-livecd-list] Reminder: Kickoff meeting on #fedora-livecd today

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

THURSDAY JULY 7, 23:00 GMT
THURSDAY JULY 7, 19:00 Eastern US
FRIDAY JULY 8, 09:00 Eastern Australia

Hope to see many of you there.  We will be choosing the technology 
starting point for the Fedora Live CD project.

--g

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  Greg DeKoenigsberg ] [ the future masters of technology will have
 Community Relations ] [ to be lighthearted and intelligent.  the
             Red Hat ] [ machine easily masters the grim and the 
                     ] [ dumb.  --mcluhan

On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:

> 
> So there's been a fair bit of email back and forth, but nothing's really 
> "caught" yet, it seems.  So let me sum up where I think we are:
> 
> We've got a handful of people with code.  Here's the summary, as I see it:
> 
>   a. Rookery, by Steve Grubb.  Intended for building distros in general,
>      but also has a tool for building a LiveCD in particular.  
>   b. Stateless Linux plus mklivecd, by Alex Larsson.  Falls out of the
>      Stateless Linux work that Red Hat R&D was doing, but is now in
>      stasis, I believe.
>   c. ADIOS, by Neville Richter.
> 
> So I think it's time to pick at least one of these platforms and "get a 
> move on".   Unless I hear MASSIVE DISAGREEMENT :) here's the way I'd like 
> to proceed:
> 
> 1. GET CODE INTO CVS.  If you want your solution to be considered, ack the
> list, and we'll make sure that you've got a place to put your code.  I'll
> work with Elliott (guru of Fedora CVS) to make sure that we have modules
> in CVS for all of this code.
> 
> 2. WEEKLY MEETING.  A mailing list is good, but it's not very high 
> bandwidth, and when we need to debate about something, IRC is much 
> quicker.  Therefore, I propose:
> 
>   a. DATE/TIME.  Always hard to get global meeting times that work for
>      all.  I've seen the most traffic from US and Australia, so I propose
>      as the first meeting time:
> 
> 
>   c. FREQUENCY.  Weekly or bi-weekly, depending -- but for now, let's 
>      just have the first one first and see how it goes.  :)
> 
> 3. WIKI.  We've got wiki space available to us on fedoraproject.org.  When 
> the time comes, we'll need something, and this wiki is being well-used for 
> the Extras and Docs projects.
> 
> --g
> 
> _____________________  ____________________________________________
>   Greg DeKoenigsberg ] [ the future masters of technology will have
>  Community Relations ] [ to be lighthearted and intelligent.  the
>              Red Hat ] [ machine easily masters the grim and the 
>                      ] [ dumb.  --mcluhan
>