Hi, From: Jeremiah Foster [mailto:[email protected]] >>On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:27 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>I'm 100% with David on this. Although I've been 'loud' in the past and >>criticized MeeGo a lot for making it unnecessarily hard for community >>hardware adaptations I have always pushed for things to happen within >>MeeGo. > >What is the purpose of "formeego.org"? To host apps for MeeGo? Until last week it was a not yet very concrete "Place for the MeeGo community". Mainly community hardware adaptations. Some thoughts. My project. I had started with moving http://bug10738.openaos.org/images/ to http://images.formeego.org as a mere first step. The images hosted there are built from packages hosted on MeeGo (C)OBS. They are community hardware adaptations for MeeGo.
This week it seems it is getting more concrete and goes into the direction of 'THE Place for the MeeGo community', I don't want to pre-empt the ongoing discussion though. As it is no longer just 'my project'. To contrast this a bit for clarity: I could have just went, forked MeeGo, called it ZomBo, registered zombo.com, and nobody would have even taken notice. It would be dead by now. I didn't. *My* express intention was (before the current situation emerged) and is to avoid a complete separation of the community from The MeeGo project as a whole. (That's what I'd call a fork, see below) Again I'd highly recommend reading David's blog posts. >And although it is not under the auspices of the LF, it is not a "fork"? In my opinion MeeGo is much more than just LF. LF hold the factual trademark. They are responsible for 'MeeGo the business thing', etc. BUT, MeeGo is MORE, much more. MeeGo is also the community! I pity the fool who believes that you can build 'MeeGo the business thing' completely without engaging with the open source community. That would more sound like e.g. Symbian. I personally hope something (maybe forMeeGo) will evolve to be like Fedora is to RedHat or openSuse is to Suse. If you think that Fedora or openSuse are forks, then yes in that light forMeeGo might be a fork for you. That is not my understanding of a fork though. I see forMeeGo (or whatever will be the place for the community in the end) _inside_ the greater thing that should be MeeGo. In a symbiotic state with the commercially oriented (and hopefully successful!) MeeGo core, vendors, etc. Cheers Thomas B. Ruecker Don Quijote de la MeeGo _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev http://wiki.meego.com/Mailing_list_guidelines
