Re: [OSCOM] Reminder: Public email for OSCOM board

We are just getting through a phase now. It won't be old boys. We will 
solicit opinions and get more people involved.
That is the consensus anyway.

Steven Noels wrote:
> On 15 Sep 2006, at 19:22, Chalu Kim wrote:
>
>   
>> You need to first volunteer to be a member and then step forward.  Are
>> you on the list first assembled?
>>
>> Paul, do you have the list?
>>     
>
> Pardon my interruption, but I assume this might be one of the issues  
> with OSCOM in its current state: I've been lurking on this list for a  
> while now, and suspect it is tough for newcomers to walk in without  
> assumptions or knowledge of the past. Hence they don't necessarily  
> feel welcome at all - old boys networks and such.
>
> We (*) have been building an open source CMS for three years now,  
> shipping one for two years, with 6 non-trivial releases so far. We've  
> build a small but thriving business around it. We also build a small  
> but thriving community around it, and contributions are starting to  
> appear. Also, more than 50% of our core product development has been  
> funded directly by customers: they pay us for doing open source  
> development.
>
> My hunch would thus be that OSCOM should be of major interest for us.  
> Yet, I don't know.
>
> (*) We, that's a tiny Belgian four-person company, which has got were  
> it currently is without much involvement with industry or open source  
> consortia, standardisation efforts, without external capital nor much  
> press attention. Yet, we have two non-trivial publicly traded US  
> customers, and quite a few large local ones.
>
> In terms of "real" open source community development, we build,  
> donated and supported stuff to the Apache Cocoon community that is  
> now in use by all of the Cocoon users, including our competitors in  
> the OSS space. Out of the four of us, two are Apache Foundation  
> members, and three are Apache committers. So it's not that we don't  
> "get open source".
>
> It's that we don't "get" what OSCOM could do for us. CMPros, yes, I  
> can figure that one out.
>
> So what are our options? Help to make the new OSCOM into something  
> that is useful to our and the community's purposes? If so, how do we  
> get in? Will we feel welcome? Will OSCOM-NG again be Zurich- and  
> Boston-centric? Who gets to decide the overall strategy: members or a  
> board?
>
> Regards,
>
> </Steven>
>

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