On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:37:13 +0100 Jamie Thompson <debian-derivatives@jamie-thompson.co.uk> wrote: > On 2011-10-08 1:19 PM, Jeremiah C. Foster wrote: > > Here's the best path forward; - Write great software - License it > > under a strong copyleft license - Contribute to truly open projects > > That's it. Based on those criteria one might propose that a Debian > > based re-spin of Mer (let's call it DeMer) might be a good path > > forward if you wanted a new project to work on. If not, you can > > participate in a number of good projects, like GNU, Fedora or > > Debian. My choice is Debian, because of its social contract, its > > high quality software, its support for a number of architectures, > > and because of the people involved. Your choice of course will > > likely be different. :-) Regards, Jeremiah > Indeed. My attempts to get stronger ties to Debian in these new > projects is basically because I don't have the resources to run a > project like this myself and duplicating, say, the Mer project, seems > like such a waste of resources. I'd love to be a part of a Debian > Mobile project based upon Maemo with stronger ties to Debian as > Ubuntu has, but I just don't want to be the entire project ;). I see > being able to leverage the Debian project's resources as a great way > to minimise the work required in the forked distro, if you will. I do > contribute to Debian (for much the same reasons you do, apparently) > as time allows (usually bug reports and troubleshooting, and the odd > small patch)...but unfortunately that constraint means I can probably > only be a small cog in a project, and thus somewhat reliant on those > further up the project food chain. Don't know if you've seen this or not, but this seems a good place to link it. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/09/msg00126.html thanks, kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK7FOSS) http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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