Yo Team What an email so fully loaded with 100% good and agreeable info!
* Awaken enthusisam for Open Source inside Novell (again) "paint Novell (more) green".
I like Red ;) Honestly
* openSUSE could be a central repository for OSS. Not for hosting source, but as "DistForge".
* openSUSE could become the driving force behind all Novell Linux
Don't create another brand/name. Stick with openSuSeforge or OSS forge. Do not create confusion with a new naming like distro forge as tempting as it might be, since it is a good name distroforge! We are doing a specific distro here? I thought so. products.
100% I agree!
* We define a new standard for collaborative packaging and distribution building.
* become an open platform, suited for experimenal development
* strengthen the "SUSE Linux" brand.
* Create the world's very best Linux distribution -
You are already doing this, tell more people it is de facto the best Enterprise Class Distro/Software house.
* and finally: - rule the World (any volunteers?)
Will try my best at the Linuxconf.au to represent us.
2) Risks ========
* The openSUSE project fades away (both, inside and outside of
Novell),
or does gain momentum soon enough.
* It is unclear, how the community can participate.
* The wiki may prove to be an insufficient platform for communication.
* We try to change everything except ourselves. (Ouch, this one went deep! Thanks Henne)
* openSUSE causes fear, uncertainty and doubt at some places inside and outside Novell.
* Hosting turns out to be more difficult than expected. (e.g. time delay between Nbg and Provo)
Hosting needs to be decentralized. Distrowatch has hosts in various countries and redirects to those mirrors. Spread the load!
* openSUSE may create so much diversity (in packages and distributions) that clarity gets lost. How do we address that?
Only if we let it happen. All experiments with the toolkit are openSUSE projects. If we can replace every reason there is for having so many distro's out there by running SUSE based flavors under the green Banner!
3) Expectations =============== Some really realistic items.
General Expectations --------------------
* Experience full rear cover from Novell.
* Offer a platform for building any distribution. - including those with different packaging formats.
* The openSUSE team must grow far beyond the core team that we have
now.
AJ envisions that all of Suse and Novell is doing openSUSE.
SNIP!
Yes yes yes yes :D ... Totally agreed Wow .... why oh why has beaming not been invented yet? Would love to have been at the meeting. Andreas