Package: lists.debian.org Severity: wishlist Name: [email protected]
Rationale: I've been working in federating companies that have an interest in supporting Debian in various ways. The kind of support here varies from stuff already partially covered by the Debian partners program, to new stuff such as companies that offer commercial support to Debian user and would like to investigate how to work together and work on topics such as Debian hardware certification, OEM, obtaining Debian certification for software their customers need, etc. The list I'm requesting is meant to become a forum for representative of such companies. I think Debian should offer an official forum for those companies to discuss, welcoming the effort. Other than that, the discussion will be up to company representatives. Note: I'm aware of the existence of the debian-enterprise list, but the topic is different. With the list I'm requesting the discussion will be political discussion rather than technical. Also, they won't be restricted to large companies, as the "enterprise" name seems to imply. Description: Discussion about the needs of companies that contribute to, offer commercial support for, or have other strategic interests in Debian Category: Miscellaneous Debian Subscription policy: closed Web archive: no As some political discussions will be going on (e.g. "how can we convince $big_company to certify their products for Debian?" brainstorming), it'd be nice to have some control of who is in the loop. In the beginning I volunteer to do that (as DPL, via [email protected]), but the ideal outcome would be to have list participants to decide on some governance structure and name who is in charge of accepting subscriptions. FWIW, I don't think this is at stake with Debian openness. For me this list is just Debian offering list hosting to actors who want to help Debian in venues that Debian Project members are not able or willing to pursue by themselves. A list archive accessible only to subscribers (and Debian Project members) would be nice, but I'm not sure this is supported by our list setup. Is it? Thanks for considering, Cheers. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
