[OpenStack Foundation] Linux Foundation as an inspiration

Sean Roberts seanrob at yahoo-inc.com
Sat Jan 14 17:09:29 UTC 2012


That's what I thought you meant. Thanks for the clarification. 

~sean

On Jan 14, 2012, at 8:56 AM, "Mark Collier" <mark at openstack.org> wrote:

> Dont read too much into the linux foundation comment. I just liked the clear writing style on their page, that's it. 
> 
> 
> 
> Thor Wolpert <thor at wolpert.ca> wrote:
> 
>> Based on discussions from a few months past, I thought the model was
>> more going to be like the Apache foundation.  A governance body,
>> project meritocracy and the ability allow and guide incubator projects
>> either into full core products, combine with another core project or
>> suggest valid alternatives.
>> 
>> It already maps so closely to many of the other needs/wants under
>> OpenStack, that I thought that would be a shoe-in.
>> 
>> What's changed?
>> 
>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Hey,
>>> 
>>> This article was re-tweeted by the OpenStack twitter account:
>>> 
>>>  http://www.itworld.com/cloud-computing/241213/openstack-steps-towards-its-foundation-future
>>> 
>>> (I'm guessing that it must be somewhat accurate if it was re-tweeted :-)
>>> 
>>>  "Interestingly, Collier said the mission statement of the OpenStack
>>>  Foundation was influenced by the mission statement of another such
>>>  organization.
>>> 
>>>  The Linux Foundation's mission was a inspiration for the theme of the
>>>  mission statement," Collier said. Some elements of the Linux
>>>  Foundation's mission statement fit well for the OpenStack Foundation,
>>>  he said."
>>> 
>>> I'd see the Linux Foundation as a radically different organization from
>>> what I'd like to see for the OpenStack foundation e.g.
>>> 
>>>  - the Linux project is completely independent from the Linux
>>>    Foundation, the latter is just there to support and promote the
>>>    former
>>> 
>>>    the project has a benevolent dictator who decides a release
>>>    schedule, where the code repositories live, what the policies of
>>>    the project are etc.
>>> 
>>>    OpenStack clearly doesn't (yet) have such a dictator (benevolent or
>>>    otherwise) so I had assumed the foundation board would assume
>>>    ultimate responsibility for the project, but delegate a lot of it to
>>>    a PPB or technical steering committee or the PTLs
>>> 
>>>  - individual Linux contributors aren't members of the foundation.
>>>    Membership is split into gold/silver/bronze classes depending on
>>>    how much you pay
>>> 
>>> So, could someone highlight which elements of the Linux foundation wiki
>>> are a good fit for OpenStack?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mark.
>>> 
>>> 
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