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I will put bluntly for discussion how I (and a few others) +consider this, up to your consideration and comments. And let's +build/deconstruct that. + + +On the one side, the Mageia project is a place where many people from +different cultures and skills sets meet and work together. Some are +self-taught, some got diplomas; some are amateurs, some are +professionals; all benefit from others' personalities. + +This melting-pot (online and hopefully offline too at some point), if +carefully managed, is an extraordinary great place for professionals +and for non-pro (students, retired, amateurs) to learn from each other +and to demonstrate their ability both in collaborative work and in +their own specific field of expertise (be it academic or not; be it +software development, project management, translation, documentation, +QA, communication, marketing, legal, hardware design, UX, design, +etc.). + +On the other side, great technology, tools and practices are made +available and demonstrated through this very project. + +So it just makes perfect sense that professionals participating to +Mageia do it not only in their spare time, but as part of their actual +employment; provided, of course, the employer sees and understands the +opportunity, both as an employer and as a potential +user/developer/integrator of these pieces of technology and +experience. + + +It's not about the Mageia project providing companies or schools with +commercial services or some specific access to tools and products of +the project. + +It's about companies or schools contributing actively to a project +they benefit from: + * contributing through the means they consider most appropriate: +people, resources, money, visibility; + * benefiting from the technology, the knowledge, the pool of great +people demonstrating their ability to build something in a +collaborative, constructive effort and available to provide, if +needed, a specific service for a specific need. + + +I want to stress this out again because that is crucial. That will not +affect the project governance in any way: project direction and +decisions rely on contributors duly elected by their peers at each +level: team, council, board. Donating money to the project does not +entitle to any specific right that would disrupt this governance +model. + + +Here is how it could be put, in other words: + +You, as a person, as a group, as a company, as a university, are very +welcome to contribute to the project if you believe in it, not only in +the technology, but in the governance, in the vision and in the people +that make it happen. + +The best way to influence significantly the project is to invest your +people into it and have them become great contributors. + +As a result, Mageia-produced tools and products are free software +(that is, collectively owned and built technology and knowledge) and +they are (going to be) designed and built to be used. By you, or +anyone that finds value in this technology and in the fact that it can +understand it, tweak it to one's needs, improve it, learn from it. + +So if it fits your needs, just use it, take it, teach it, tweak it, +plug it, play it, burn it... wooops ;-) You get the idea. Find a real +problem that screams for a different solution, nail this solution +down, use the best tools at hand and implement it. + + +This is for the reasoning. + +Next could be: + * what types of companies would join in such a fashion and for what +use? (support, integration, custom development, other?) + * which universities, for what use? + * why would Mageia need to even care about this? + * how (and why) would the Mageia project integrate this by taking +steps facilitating this (and preventing mixes between what is +genuinely produced by Mageia and what is derivated from it)? + * how can Mageia keep the focus on its own roadmap (to stress out +that the governance is in the hands of the Council and the Board, and +only them; and why investing in the people contributing to the project +is key) + + +Cheers, + +Romain +</PRE> + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="003393.html">[Mageia-discuss] Available Servers at Cloud Sigma +</A></li> + + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#3391">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#3391">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#3391">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#3391">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |