On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:35:33PM -0700, Frank Worsley wrote:
> 1. Who is going to take on the leadership position for the project? Although
> this is a community project we do need somebody in charge to act as a sort
> of "project lead" and contact person for people outside of the project.
> Currently Daryll's email address at VA Linux is listed as a contact. Daryll,
> would you be prepared to maintain such a leadership role?
>
> If not, who is going to do it? My name is listed as the webmaster and I am
> willing to keep doing that. However, I am not in any way qualified to be a
> contact person for any other issues. A couple of other people come to my
> mind though .. how about Frank Earl or Manuel Tiera? Both of you have been
> active on the Rage Pro driver ... or maybe somebody else who wants to step
> forward? There have been a number of people who have been active lately ...
> I can't remember everybody so if you are interested send an email to the
> list.
>
> This is not so much a "project lead" role but more of a contact person role
> ... see my other points below.
Most open source projects tend to work better when they have some small
group of active people who "own" it. They keep track of what's being
done, roust developers around release time, etc. Most of the ex-VA guys
are still around, although most of us are taking a bit of a
vacation/break for a while.
> 2. We also need somebody promoted to a Sourceforge admin so new members can
> be added to the project. Right now all of the admins are ex-VA employess.
> So, if all of them are planning on taking a longer vacation then it would be
> kind of a problem since nobody can be added to the project anymore.
Since we're still here handling the management issues shouldn't be a
problem.
> 3. If we do setup a donation page ... who is going to manage the project's
> account? How are we going to decide on how the money is distributed? How are
> we going to decide who gets paid for what?
I think Mike made some really good points about donations. I don't think
donations for people's time is really going to work. The most effective
use of donations would be to buy hardware. There's a lot of logistics to
handling that effort, so I'd suggest putting that off until you know
exactly how you're going to manage it.
> 4. I think we have to also start a more coordinated effort to get specs from
> the hardware developers. This weekend I will sit down and try to come up
> with a nice document/letter/webpage aimed at management and titled something
> like "Why open source driver development is good for you" .... or something
> like that. When I get it written up I will post it to the list so everybody
> can review it. Once we have made something nice I will either email it or
> mail it to the different companies. Hopefully we can archieve something
> doing that ... what do you all think? This is where the person in point 1
> would come into play, to act as a contact person for the different
> companies. I don't know if I am being a little optimistic here ... but we
> have to at least keep trying. I guess the more professional it looks the
> better.
That's probably a reasonable thing to do. As David pointed out I think
most companies have heard the arguments, but having a web page doesn't
hurt and having standardized letters that request docs and point people
to the web page and having centralized contacts would be useful.
- |Daryll
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