grokking the FF

Alex Maier lxmaier at gmail.com
Wed Jun 8 00:06:45 UTC 2005


>From how I understand it, Red Hat annonced the intent to make Fedora a
self-governed Foundation. No bylaws etc have been even drafted yet,
and so the Fedora folks will be involved in the making of the FF.
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On 6/8/05, Jesse Keating <jkeating at j2solutions.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 19:45 -0400, Jack Aboutboul wrote:
> > Nothing is understood because there is no information yet.
> > Personally,
> > I think the announcement was made prematurely.  Then again, I really
> > have no idea if it was, since we don't know how much has or has not
> > been
> > done or decided.
> 
> Or instead of saying 'There is now a Fedora is being transferred to the
> Fedora Foundation', what should have been said was 'We are working to
> create a Foundation to transfer Fedora to'.  That way we aren't totally
> surprised when the transfer happens and claim that we weren't warned....
> 
> > > I'd like to suggest that the legal people working on the FF creation
> > use
> > > the Fedora Marketing Project as a mouthpiece.
> >
> > Although I don't think we will be operating under the auspices of
> > Fedora
> > Marketing Project.  It will more likely be the marketing division of
> > the
> > Foundation.
> 
> Either way, I think the MORE information made public here, the BETTER.
> We have an opportunity to un-black a lot of eyes by being nice and
> verbose, can we take advantage of it?  Pretty please?
> 
> > > Do the work here first to
> > > help people understand, and let us help distribute the
> > understanding.
> >
> > Nod. Multiple times over.
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