From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9222 invoked by uid 1002); 26 Jun 2003 01:09:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 9166 invoked from network); 26 Jun 2003 01:08:59 -0000 Message-ID: <3EFA47A7.5080608@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:08:55 -0700 From: Zach Welch Organization: Gentoo Linux User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org, gentoo-core@gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [gentoo-dev] FORK: The Time Is Now X-Archives-Salt: ba2b6903-1941-4a9b-b11e-1bed45a21fba X-Archives-Hash: 531eee24fe176e5617ac3d30d695d524 Fellow Gentooers, I am proud to announce that The Zynot Foundation was registered today as a 501.c.3 member controlled, non-profit organization in the state of Oregon. This new entity is being established to hold a fork of the Gentoo Linux distribution, targeting embedded and enterprise users and developers. We will be establishing a new development culture suitable for creating a reliable, validated, and production-ready distribution - initially using the Gentoo technology we all have come to know and love. While I am currently leading this effort, I have already attracted a number of others willing to help me guide this project through its initial growing pains. In the next couple of months, I expect this project to evolve as truly community run organization, and we will be drafting the foundation's bylaws out in the open, accepting input from the community thoughout the entire process. I humbly submit that every present or future Gentoo user, developer, client, or investor should read my paper at the following URL. In great detail, it describes the events that drove me to this current state of affairs, the reasoning behind the fork (along with a section covering the most current events), along with a brief glimpse at the choices this fork will be offering the community that grows around it: http://www.zynot.org/info/fork.html and the following links has some initial questions answered about the future and other ideas: http://www.zynot.org/info/faq.html We are working to establish parallel infrastructure at Oregon State University; however, my resources have been heavily invested in the Gentoo project, both material and finacially, and many of the details of those investments are documented in the above paper. My attornys have sent a letter to Mr. Robbins requesting these investments be returned. For those that would speculate about the timing of this announcement, my paper presents facts that suggest the recent re-organization post by Daniel Robbins was a pre-emptive and unsuccessful attempt to short-circuit this fork. Consider that fact along with the remaining evidence presented in my paper as you read the inevitable damage and spin control that follows this post. I would like to invite Daniel Robbins to meet me at LinuxWorld Expo, 2003, for a head-to-head public debate about the issues surrounding this fork. The Zynot Foundation has registered booth #5 in the .org pavillion, and we are looking forward to talking with everyone then and there. In the meantime, come join us on IRC in #zynot or #zynot-dev on irc.freenode.net where there is sure to be lively discussion. Finally, I would like to thank all of the users and developers that have made Gentoo a wonderful technology, and I look forward to being able to give something substantial back to the community with this new distribution. Thank you for the memories. Sincerely, Zachary T Welch Managing Member Superlucidity Services zwelch@superlucidity.net -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list