[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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