It's a few days after the meeting and I warned people at the meeting but I was the only volunteer so. Since the log is somewhat large, I've linked it up at: http://mako.yukidoke.org/debian-nonprofit/debian-nonpofit_meeting_log-20030811.log As soon as gluck (cvs.d.o and people.d.o) is revived, I will set up a news story about the meeting with much of the content of the following attached summary on the project homepage. Regards, Mako -- Benj. Mako Hill mako@debian.org http://mako.yukidoke.org/
The basic agenda for the meeting was as follows: - Introductions - Talk about focus - Go through the DebianNPNeeds page and talk about package lists The introductions are rather self explanatory and in the log. We started things off talking about focus in terms of, "what do we really want to accomplish with this subproject." Everyone stood behind the idea of putting together a complete system that is easy to use/transition to, that meets the needs of non-profits, and is comprised of 100% free software. In terms of what this looks like, people were split. Some people felt very strongly that creating a distribution for servers was the area that they would be most useful and the area that they feel has the most potential for success. Others felt that desktop use was the area that needed the most help. Enough people stood behind each that they looked realistic. Since there is a good deal of overlap and since the entire project is under the Debian umbrella, the goal seemed to shift to something like the RedHat install, where you just choose what "flavor" you want. In our case, the flavors might be general purpose server, workstation, and low-powered workstation. Skolelinux was mentioned as an example of a group that is doing this within the Debian system right now and as a model from which we can pull code and inspiration. In setting up different flavors, the idea was not to split the effort in Debian-NP but to set up different banners under which to work on some flavor specific issues -- like package lists. For the rest of the meeting, the group went through bits of the list and mentioned pieces of software that they felt fit the needs listed on the needs page. WHERE TO GO FROM HERE: * Make fixed lists of existing packages that will be used for each "flavor." Identify software that is not packaged that we need to use. We can do this on the wiki and the list. * Once we have lists of packages we can, with relatively little effort, build ourselves Morphix custom bootable -np CDs. This will be a great way to start and something great to show. * We should begin looking at the Skolelinux install system to see if it's something we can use. Try to customize to include the new package list and get a basic install of something with the -np package list. To begin, someone should download it, try it out, and then describe it to the list. * Once we have working custom package selections, we can shift the focus to custom configurations of those packages for NPOs.
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