[Mageia-discuss] A suggestion regarding community organization.

Tue Jan 18 18:47:24 CET 2011

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 18:13, Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com> wrote:
+> IMHO one of the major points in this issue is to keep the association
+> and any commercial activities apart.
+
+Yes.
+
+> Future options I see in individual activities. Every contributor or
+> groups of contributors can open a business of his/their own based on
+> the Mageia distribution (additional software solutions, consulting,
+> etc.) and then "give back" to the Association in general or even
+> employ one or more of the contributors of Mageia. But the Association
+> itself has to keep clear of any commercial activities. Otherwise we
+> could soon be back at that point we all left behind: making decisions
+> about the distribution forced by business.
+
+Well, because it's business does not imply it is going to be wrong but
+I share the point here in that it looks much more a sound plan to keep
+potentially drifting forces separate.
+
+> You may call me paranoid, no problem.
+
+No paranoia here. It makes sense and matches a certain set of
+concepts: keep it small, simple, have distinct components per role and
+loosely couple them.
+
+
+Romain
+