On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, Jesse Keating wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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? > I'm proposing we do a multi-year shift from being a community of packagers to a community of developers. That way, at least, we control our own destiny. As it is now, upstream does where upstream is.. well upstream. -Mike _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
