Greetings,
I am a bit busy because we are having our Software Freedom Day next Saturday.
Questions to be asked:
1. How do the other distros get funded? 2. Use of openSUSE/SUSE on websites, documents etc. Trademarks, rights to use images, logos etc. 3. Support from local Attachmate people? 4. Does Attachmate have a community Manager? I could not find one, so I phoned Seattle yesterday evening. I was handed to Liz an outsourced PR company. 5. What do we tell our members? Does that involve a change of Memorandum and Articles of Association, hence bank account, letterheads, business cards, websites et al? 6. open office is heavily funded by Novell, does that mean that we might less developers? Other developments in progress? 7. Helen is right, what about our pals at Novell?
Best wishes, Jimmy President nui.fr
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Jimmy Pierre jimmypierre.rouen.france@gmail.com wrote:
Greetings,
I am a bit busy because we are having our Software Freedom Day next Saturday.
Questions to be asked:
- How do the other distros get funded?
There's a little bit of info about Debian funding here: http://www.debian.org/sitemap
- What do we tell our members?
At this point, my suggestion is "wait and see". It's tempting to fire off emails asking for information, but I figure that the people who are dealing with the business end of all this will probably have enough to do right now and don't need more emails from me!
I trust the board (and no doubt other senior representatives) will pass on information as soon as they know anything.
- Helen is right, what about our pals at Novell?
Again, it's wait and see. Takeovers and sales don't always mean losses: sometimes it's an opportunity for growth. Let's stay positive at this point.
Whatever happens, openSUSE wil keep moving forward. At Software Freedom Day, the best thing is to say that we have a strong community and committed developers and contributors, which we do. Most importantly we have a great distribution. We're all still here, developing, patching, packaging, promoting, supporting.
Have fun on your Software Freedom Day.!
Helen
Best wishes, Jimmy President nui.fr
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To tell the truth, what I'm most scared about is bugzilla. Maybe funding, branding, etc can get messed up, maybe they won't.
But if Novell and SUSE are separated, how would bugzilla.n.c, a very 'Novell site', remain functional? All bug links are dead. Instantly.
On a smaller scale, it created a temporary bit of havoc on wiki.o.o. In this case, it is potentially huge.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
~kknundy
On 11/24/2010 at 10:27 PM, in message
AANLkTimsTider+HHbyzEn37bjiw3_FXytyxgSfzGDa0Q@mail.gmail.com, Koushik Kumar Nundy kknundy@gmail.com wrote:
To tell the truth, what I'm most scared about is bugzilla. Maybe funding, branding, etc can get messed up, maybe they won't.
But if Novell and SUSE are separated, how would bugzilla.n.c, a very 'Novell site', remain functional? All bug links are dead. Instantly.
On a smaller scale, it created a temporary bit of havoc on wiki.o.o. In this case, it is potentially huge.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
No need to panic. Nothiing changes in Novell until the first quarter of next year. And no service will be dropped overnight without prior handoff plans.
Sankar
Le 24/11/2010 18:01, Sankar P a écrit :
o need to panic. Nothiing changes in Novell until the first
quarter of next year. And no service will be dropped overnight without prior handoff plans.
and why anything should change? Novell is well known, have customers, why the new owner should break this??
may be have a new whatever-Novell name?
jdd
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