Hi, On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Jimmy Kaplowitz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 04:56:01AM -0800, Noah Meyerhans wrote: >> 2. There could be formal partnership agreements between the distro and >> AWS. I'm not sure, and I don't know what the terms of such an agreement >> would be, so I have no idea if this would be an option for Debian. > > One note on this, which Noah probably knows but is worth mentioning in > context: while not all formal partnership agreements would have terms > Debian finds acceptable, Debian does have the ability to sign contracts > through one of the Trusted Organization it works with. Most likely this > would be Software in the Public Interest where the counterparty is a US > entity like Amazon.
To work closely with AWS, there is no specific agreement necessary. James, Marcin, and I discussed setting up a monthly cadence to ensure that we have an opportunity to discuss feature support and other tasks together. I think that Debian is an established OS partner, but there is always room for improvement and more collaborative work like we have done even at the last cloud SIG. > > If a formal partnership agreement becomes necessary, I'm on the SPI > board and am happy to participate in discussions about whether the terms > are viable. (The Debian Project Leader would be the one to give any > final approval on behalf of Debian; SPI would probably consult its > lawyers at SFLC before giving its final approval.) > Sending a note to spi-board to keep the momentum here (from my work address). I have some open action items for housekeeping that we intended to complete from early Nov. as well.
