From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [78.47.116.26] (helo=drlauer-research.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M568V-0005FF-O4 for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Sat, 16 May 2009 00:44:15 +0200 Received: from andromeda.vanille.de (e180153198.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.180.153.198]) by drlauer-research.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F5255847FA for ; Sat, 16 May 2009 01:08:04 +0200 (CEST) From: "Michael 'Mickey' Lauer" Organization: Vanille-Media To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 00:37:25 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.2 (Linux/2.6.28-11-generic; KDE/4.2.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <4A0DBCAC.5000403@balister.org> <1242424484.4514.117.camel@lenovo.internal.reciva.com> In-Reply-To: <1242424484.4514.117.camel@lenovo.internal.reciva.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <200905160037.25213.mickey@vanille-media.de> Subject: Re: progress on OE organization issues X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 22:44:15 -0000 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline I agree with pb's suggestion here. In fact some days ago I talked to RP about the state of OE and me, the failure of the original coreteam, the e.V. etc. My view on that is: The ideal situation would be that everyone interested in OE -- no matter on which level, technically, supportive, or administrative, becomes a member of the e.V. This is relatively straightforward and does not require any financial commitments per se as our status include that a member can chose its own membership fee. The e.V. (remember, this should now include all stakeholders, so everyone who is interested in OE is allowed to vote -- not only the committers, but also the bug wizards, doc folks, etc.) then votes two boards, an administrative and a technical. A) The administrative one takes care about the legal status, donations, taxes, granting access to servers, etc. This one we have already voted on our initial meeting in Brussels. It consists of 4 positions. For this year it consists of Florian, Robert, Holger, and me -- at least until the next elections... B) The technical one is probably more interesting to most people on the list here. The technical board is responsible for keeping the project on track as a whole, helping us staying focused, improving BitBake and OpenEmbedded, trying to recruit more committers, and -- most important to me due to the recent series of events -- resolving conflicts. This one should contain 7 positions, preferably filled with people having different areas of expertise, e.g. toolchain, system level stuff, higher level stuff, multimedia, mobile, etc. All votes and discussions would be open and carried out on public mailing lists, wiki, etc. oe-private would be closed for good, since what we need most is transparency. If we can pull such an organization off, I'd be willing to run for a position. Cheers, :M: