On Tuesday 06 July 2010 12:04:29 Vincent Untz wrote:
Hi,
Le mardi 29 juin 2010, à 01:32 +0200, Pavol Rusnak a écrit :
openSUSE - Mobile and cloud ready distribution ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If we remove the "private cloud" part of this proposal, then most of this strategy would actually be integrating various bricks together. I think we should do it, but it feels more like a specific feature that will go with something bigger (like, say, "having openSUSE used as the base OS for Meego" or something like this).
As for the private cloud stuff: that's a good thing, but I seriously doubt we'd get enough manpower for this. A good approach could be to team with other communities to work on this, though.
I think the ownCloud stuff that Frank Karlicheck (sp?) is doing is an example of such a project that we could just integrate. I was surprised how much is out there already - or beeing actively worked on.
It's worth pointing out that such a strategy would really be a disruptive change for our community (since what is listed as areas where we need to be excellent are not really related to our current distribution), and therefore has a high risk associated with it -- maybe too high.
I think we'll need to have a good mobile integration story to stay relevant in the future, but for this, I'd focus on teaming up with other communities: this will make the result much stronger and more solid in the long term, for everyone. So I'd keep this part of the strategy and integrate it with our final strategy, if possible.
good idea, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126