[Zope-dev] Re: [Z3lab] Nuxeo supports Zope Corp announces

[Andreas Jung]

--On 17. Juni 2005 13:29:33 +0200 Philipp von Weitershausen 
<philipp at weitershausen.de> wrote:

> Andreas Jung wrote:
>> --On 17. Juni 2005 13:04:17 +0200 Philipp von Weitershausen
>> <philipp at weitershausen.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Jean-Marc Orliaguet wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is really great news!
>>>>
>>>> I am going to start working at getting Chalmers to be one of the key
>>>> players in the foundation which would make the foundation even more
>>>> vendor-neutral. I am confident that this will go through.
>>>
>>>
>>> This almost sounds as if the Foundation isn't to be vendor-neutral from
>>> the start which is certainly not the intention of a foundation. What I
>>> like about other open source foundations (take the Plone Foundation from
>>> our community, for example) is that the members are developers, not
>>> companies. The developers govern themselves, every developer gets a
>>> vote.
>>>
>>
>> I strongly second that. A company driven or ruled foundation is likely
>> not very much acceptable for the Zope community.
>
> Yes.
>
> I wonder, given their experience in bootstrapping a foundation (with all
> the legal complications etc.), has the Plone Foundation been solicited
> for helpful input? Wouldn't make much sense for us to go through the same
> difficult steps if there's someone within our community who has done it
> already...


Maybe we should stop discusing these issues and wait until we hear some 
more solid information from ZC about their ZF plans. The ZF is a good idea 
but don't let us kill it in the beginning ...

-aj
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