On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 16:42 -0700, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote: > A community has a set of filters, spoken or unspoken, that are > used to judge various matters, such as entrance into the > community, exit from the community, interaction of ideas, etc. A > common mistake is to assume that "all open source communities > share values and filters." In the end, we are all as different > as all communities can be from one another. > > In Fedora we have such filtering, with priority given to values > and other considerations, which we use when deciding if a package > comes in to the community, what we'll ship in the distribution, > how we route packets, etc. > > When making decisions that involve philosophy and practicality, > what is the Fedora filter? Based on what I've seen around here, > and on how I've seen decisions tend to be made, here is a first > poke at ordering our filter. What is strange to me is that > sometimes I feel as if we apply this filter in _reverse_, such as > with IT decisions. Is that what we want? Do different parts of > the Project apply the filters differently? > > These decision filters are in order of usage/importance. Please > discuss: I think these need some tweaking, here is how my thought process goes: = We cannot break US laws = Software patents and the DMCA are lame, but as long as Red Hat is a US company, we have to play by the rules. This means respecting trademarks and copyright. == Free Software is best == We prefer our software to be 100% free. Free as in FSF. === Open Source is almost as good as Free === In the few cases where something is OSI-approved but not FSF Free, we'll take it, but we'll work to free it. (Note: The only item that currently hits this filter is the Artistic 1.0 license) ==== Educating and changing the world ==== ===== Usability, Pragmatism ===== ====== Open Community Projects are Better ====== ======= Budget and Resources ======= ~spot _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
