Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
There are two classes of "project" in Fedora.
Incubator project: any project that has a mailing list, a home on the
wiki, and an IRC channel. Can be created by anybody following simple
rules with an hour of work. If one person is willing to follow his or
her own Fedora project, well by gum, it's an incubator project. We can
institute basic rules to keep them sane:
+ No wiki posts or mailing list posts within six months: gone.
+ Majority vote of the board: gone.
Official project: any project that has all of these things, plus:
+ a clearly articulated goal.
+ a steering committee with a chair.
+ regular meetings of the steering committee to ensure that
progress is being made towards the goal.
Life in Simple-Land is great. We eat cheap Chinese food from the same
restaurant every day, and we only wear jeans and t-shirts that we get from
trade shows.
Do we have something other than "project" that we can use for a name?
Project is strongly linked to software, but I think that a lot of the
activities that we're encouraging are actually not software but
promoting ideas. Project to me means mailing list, a home page,
downloads, etc. Can we brainstorm a bit for something else to call the
collections of enthusiasts that we love?
--Chris
