On 01/19/2011 09:31 AM, jdd wrote:
Le 19/01/2011 02:22, Alan Clark a écrit :
Greetings to all on the Foundation ML.
Posted on the wiki is a paragraph describing the purpose of the Foundation.
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Foundation
It's intended to be a precise description of the Foundation. A description that we will refer back to often throughout all the discussions and in building the official documents. Please take a few minutes and review this description and comment on how it may be refined.
Thanks,
Alan
I don't know if it's a good idea to use "openSUSE" in the name of the foundation. It's confusing. The foundation may not be equal to the community (hence the "foundation" name), openSUSE is a trademark by Novell and may be we may have one day to change the name for whatever reason.
I would so propose to avoid the openSUSE name in the name and the goal of the foundation.
One of the goal, and in discussion for more than a year, as always to be able to get all the trademark related to openSUSE to be transfered by Novell to the new foundation.
may be call it "green lizard" (or whatever you want) The goal should also be much wider (the foundation is prone to live for many years, who knows what will be the free software world in 15 years?)
I feel green lizard too much restrictive, I want to be able to include all kind of Geeko out there. brow, yellow, orange, blue, purple, event those red one :-)
"The green lizard Foundation assists the free software/open source community to promote linux everywhere, including building a general purpose Linux based Operating System, deploying IT infrastructure, providing development ressources in hardware, software and manpower, etc. The Foundation exercises administrative responsibilities and legal controls to engender open and objective leadership, vision, commitment and solidarity, empowering people to make decisions, attracting additional companies to donate to the project, and attracting a broader range of individual contributors. "
My idea is that the foundation should only be driven by a small subset of the openSUSE community, mostly the more interested people that want to be permanently involved. We don't want to have discussion like the ones we see often in the openSUSE lists. My model is the free software foundation, may be a little less philosofical :-)
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jdd
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