On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Agreed. We need to pick a neutral domain name. office-security.org is > apparently free. > > Some institution needs to buy domain registration. I've been the volunteer > registrar for a social groups domain, it is a pain to transition. This needs > to be an institution, it could be Team OOo? > I think they are too close to the matter. SPI exists specifically to hold assets in trust - perhaps they would hold the registration for us all? If we agree I'd be happy to volunteer to contact them. It's also possible we could ask OSI to do it - Jim Jagielski and I are both on the Board at present. > > An ISP for hosting the private ML needs to be selected. Dennis suggests > that the ASF could be that ISP for free. Could the TDF be the ISP? Isn't > that for you to say? I agree it is not the main issue. > > [email protected] is migrated to whatever the new list is, and those > people start administrating. > > I think it is very important for the public to know who all of the projects > are on the shared ML. > > Are we done already :-) > > Regards, > Dave > > > > > That is fair to anyone, does not exclude anyone, does not benefit one > > over the other -- it's easy, simple, and the best way to go. Sure, > > everyone can create own aliases pointing to that list, but the core is > > the same, and that's what matters. > > > > If you folks now start complaining about we don't trust Apache, we can > > answer by complaining you don't trust TDF and so on. It's a horrible > > waste of time, it's lame, it does not help anyone, and it makes me doubt > > we're talking amongst adults, seriously. > > > > And, really, all this crap being tossed around about trustworthiness, > > upstream, downstream, code similarities and insults is worth not even > > the digital paper it's written on. > > > > I made a simple, plain, and easy proposal. Don't make things overly > > complicated, folks. > > > > Thanks for considering, > > Florian > > > > -- > > Florian Effenberger <[email protected]> > > Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation > > Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 > > Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff > > > > -- Simon Phipps +1 415 683 7660 : www.webmink.com
