[openbeos] Re: News, Views and Overdues

  • From: "Erik Jakowatz" <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 21:33:55 -0700

>Good evening, troops!

Hey, Michael and everybody else!

>There are now more than 60 people on this list. WOW! I am consistantly 
impressed more and more with the BeOS community.

Yes, this is very cool.  I'm so excited I can hardly contain myself! =P

>Those of you who have already mailed me, I will sign you up for items. 
Those who have not, let me know. 

Where/when will you post these assignments?

>Another is personal - I am moving at the end of this week, so we are 
packing, etc.

Good luck!

>For what my approval is worth, the charter that was posted here a few 
days ago (cut and paste coming) 
>is very good. Thanks to Daniel Reinhold.

Count my vote for Dan's charter.  While I agree that publishing a lot at 
this point might be unwise, this should probably go up on sourceforge.

>Other issues:
>License - on source-forge, I chose MIT License.

Works for me.

>Leadership - I think (and others can certainly talk me out of this), 
what I would like to do is 
>break into groups. Small groups centered around kits would help in this 
regard.

A good idea. I think the main list should continue as an open forum for 
the various kit teams to discuss what they've done with everyone and get 
input.  And as a place for people coming into the project later to 
start.

>I am looking for motivated, mature people to lead groups. I personally 
will lead the kernel group 
>for now, as well as the project as a whole (unless the majority 
disagrees). That just gives a 
>single point of contact for people to get to us, as well as dealing 
with administrative things. 
>I am not a dictator. Promise. :-) 

Michael's got my vote as over-all project lead.  His efforts have been 
instrumental in getting this ball rolling, and IMO show a capacity to 
take on the resposibility of keeping us all headed in roughly the same 
direction. ;)  If nobody else is dying to do it, I'd be happy to lead a 
team as well; my primary focus lies with app_server/app kit/interface 
kit -- libbe.so, I suppose.

>Final note:
>
>Please forgive the length here. There are a lot of people interested in 
the kernel. Suggestions have 
>ranged from using Linux to using the Be kernel. I want to draw a line 
in the sand. Short term, we 
>have to use Be's. I see only two possibilities for a kernel on a long 
term basis. Either we modify 
>NewOS or we make one from scratch. I have emailed Travis as a 
representitive of the group asking 
>him what he would like to do about this. I would love to get him on 
board. If not, we will write 
>our own with NewOS supplying code and ideas.

Several of us had a fairly long discussion on this very topic this 
afternoon (preventing me from getting *anything* useful done ;) and the 
concensus as I read it was quite solidly on the side of using NewOS as 
our starting point, with general agreement that having Travis on board 
would be cool, but not strictly necessary.

>We have to make some decisions some time or we will never get anywhere. 
This is one 
>that I want to make sooner and more concisely than others. :-)

A conclusion that this afternoon's discussion also arrived at.

Man, I'm excited about this! =D

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