Carsten, Congratulatiosn on continuing to make progress. I have to say though I am surprised to see Plasma Active mentioned only because I thought Mer was to be UI/UX agnostic.
Rob On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Carsten Munk <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all, > > As some of you know, we have a governance draft for Mer, which I think > it's about time we put it into action. It can be read at > http://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Governance_draft - we've had a bit of > ad-hoc governance until now. > > However, we have a bit of a bootstrapping problem as we rely on the > composition and existence of technical leaders and maintainers and > interest groups to create the advisory board and without advisory > board we can't nominate technical leaders and maintainers. > > As per privilege of project founder (the only time I'll ever use > that), I'd like to propose the following based on what I can observe > in the community of activity surrounding Mer: > > * Begin with a initial advisory board of 5 participants, 2 interest > group representatives, 1 architect, 1 technical lead, 1 maintainer > > * To formally describe two interest groups for bootstrapping as > they've been the most active around Mer, each selecting a > representative for the advisory board: > - Nemo Mobile (http://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Nemo) > - Plasma Active (http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active) > > If anybody else want to register as an interest group in Mer, for > example if you're a company, a group of individuals, or group of > companies, or a open source project based on Mer, you're welcome to > contact this list to indicate your interest. > > * To have Carsten Munk/Stskeeps (me) make a meritocratic claim as > interim Project Architect, based on my project contributions and > architectural & project guidance up to now. > > * To have David Greaves/lbt make a meritocratic claim as interim > Systems & Vendor Relations Technical Lead, based on contribution to > Mer infrastructure and vendor interface/philosophy up to now. > > * To have Marko Saukko/Sage make a meritocratic claim as interim > Packages Maintainer (better title to be selected), due to extensive > contribution to the Mer Core (see http://review.merproject.org , > All->Merged) > > This would put the advisory board to the following structure: > > * Architect: Carsten Munk > * Nemo Mobile Representative > * Plasma Active Representative > * Technical leads Representative 1: David Greaves > * Technical leads Representative 2: not chosen yet > * Maintainer Representative 1: Marko Saukko > * Maintainer Representative 2: not chosen yet > > First items on the agenda for the new Advisory board would be to: > * Confirm project governance model as official project governance > * Discuss and probably re-confirm meritocratic claims and instate them > in that position officially > * Establish length of advisory board terms, initial proposal is two months > * Establish schedule of advisory board meeting, initial proposal is > once a month. > * Establish if there's any nominations needed for remaining Technical > Lead and Maintainer Representative positions > * Any other business, such as proposed items by project members, > project direction, requirements, needs, nominations, etc > > If anyone has any objections to this model or direction, please > discuss it on this mailing list, else the idea is that the proposal > goes into effect at 31 January 2012, with first Advisory Board meeting > on 1 February 2012. > > BR > Carsten Munk > Mer project founder > > >
