---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Hawkwind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Apr 13, 2006 5:46 PM Subject: Re: Ulteo Club To: Philippe Landau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 4/13/06, Philippe Landau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello early birds :-) > > It looks like there is some interest in starting an Ulteo Club, > for financing and community building. I am one that is definitely for such an idea. I think it needs to be started quite soon. The sooner the better IMO. > I would propose a club with 15 euro minimal fee, contributors free, > and a special page listing donors of more then 100 euro. > Membership would offer advantages. I hope that this can be done in USD as well. There are several US citizens that are involved or wanting to be involved in some way, including myself. > Developers tend not to be aware how much financial power players > are meddling in operating system development behind the scenes. > It is important to protect Ulteo if it aims at > staying a true community distribution. > therefor Ulteo.org and Ulteo.net need to be taken over > by Gaël Duval or an Ulteo foundation. Again I would have to agree. Gael should ultimately have control of all Ulteo domain names and then it can be up to him to give responsibility to who he wants to run certain things. Yann for example is doing a good job with the .org domain. I am currently working on the .com website or atleast a basis that someone else can take and improve on if need be. > Then we could start the Ulteo Club under club.ulteo.org If/When the club does get started, I think it would be best to incorporate the forums into the club and have one central location for the forums. I am a moderator on the forums currently and would love to be continue to do such thing for a Club Forum. As Gael knows, Adam W. does a great job with the Mandriva forums and he has already told me in the past that he would like for me to be an official moderator for the Mandriva Club forums. Now that Ulteo is coming along I have told Adam that due to conflict of interest I don't think it would be a good idea that I do such thing. I'm more than willing to do whatever it takes to get a 'Club' and Club Forums up and running for Ulteo. I think we need such thing as soon as possible. > I would propose an Ulteo Wiki where Club members > get posting privileges and reading access is free for all, > except in a section reserved for members only. > That way we can start developing a community feeling > and obtain high quality content for all Ulteo users, spam free. That is a great idea. I am currently using PMwiki on a domain for a Gnome help channel that I run on FreeNode. The wiki can be found here for those willing to take a look: http://wiki.gnomehelp.org I agree that in the beginning only contributors or those that Gael appoint have access to editing the wiki. There also needs to be a members only section so that we can have a 'Behind the scenes' type thing that only members/developers/contributors can post and view. This would benefit everyone. > Kind regards philippe > -- With kind regards, Cliff Wade (Hawkwind) The box said: Requires Windows 98 or better, So I installed Linux! Registered Linux User #362532 http://seerofsouls.com http://linuxfordummies.org http://urpmi-addmedia.org IRC Channels (irc.freenode.net): #LFD #Mandriva -- With kind regards, Cliff Wade (Hawkwind) The box said: Requires Windows 98 or better, So I installed Linux! Registered Linux User #362532 http://seerofsouls.com http://linuxfordummies.org http://urpmi-addmedia.org IRC Channels (irc.freenode.net): #LFD #Mandriva
