On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Simon Phipps <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
At Apache we make proposals and seek lazy consensus, typically 72 hours. I see nothing urgent here that would make us bypass that part of our decision making process. I look forward to reading the specifics of your proposal. I've made mine. -Rob > 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 >
