Hi,

As you all know, our project hasn't really been a shining example of output or participation.  I'd like to change that.  What follows are my thoughts.  I'd appreciate comments/criticisms/ideas/whatever.

Reasons for existence / Goals
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We started the project after a few different distribution maintainers found that they were complaining about the same things (builds being difficult, lack of autotools support in CDT, package maintenance difficulties, etc.).  The goals at the time were two-fold:  1) be a place for distributions to collaborate and 2) provide tools specific to Linux developers.  We sort of expanded a bit afterwards to also be a bit of a clearing house for