[yocto-ab] Yocto Project AB VOTE: OS Systems

[Cherry, John]

As a "troll" member of the Yocto AB now, I'd like to chime in on this request.  First, I'd like to say that Otavio Salvador is a great contributor and role model for Yocto involvement.  My opinion on "YP Compatibility" has nothing to do with Otavio's involvement with the YP.

I would assume that there is some business advantage to be gained by declaring the OSS Systems distribution to be "YP Compatible."  OSS Systems is obviously serving a market that other YP members are benefitting from (no names mentioned here).  Would it be possible for OSS Systems to be sponsored by a current YP member at some level and then the issue of YP membership would not be an issue.

Otherwise, if I were an active Yocto board member, I would probably side with WR and vote no.

Thanks,
John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: yocto-ab-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-ab-
> bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Philip Balister
> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 8:13 AM
> To: Ta, Lieu
> Cc: yocto-ab at yoctoproject.org
> Subject: Re: [yocto-ab] Yocto Project AB VOTE: OS Systems
> 
> On 08/20/2013 07:11 PM, Ta, Lieu wrote:
> > I would like to uphold the AB rule that YP Compatible requires YP
> membership.
> 
> I can see two sides to this.
> 
> 1) We want to encourage people to join the Yocto Project and support
> the
> physical needs of the project.
> 
> 2) We do not want to see the YP Compatible badge become equivalent with
> "large corporate" project s only.
> 
> There are lots of people working and contributing to the project who do
> not have the financial resources to join the Yocto Project as paying
> members. The underlying strength of the project is the diversity of
> people using and contributing to it. We do not want to create some form
> of class structure based on money.
> 
> This is a fascinating problem.
> 
> Philip
> 
> >
> > The vote is No from Wind River.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Lieu
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: yocto-ab-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-ab-
> bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Osier-mixon, Jeffrey
> > Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 7:11 PM
> > To: yocto-ab at yoctoproject.org
> > Subject: [yocto-ab] Yocto Project AB VOTE: OS Systems
> >
> > As I have had no comment on this for a week, I would like to put it
> to a vote.
> >
> > Please vote yes/no to grant YP Compatible status to OS Systems'
> > YP-based distro. Please vote before Thursday, end of day.
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Osier-mixon, Jeffrey
> <jeffrey.osier-mixon at intel.com> wrote:
> >> One small correction, it isn't the ThinTerminal distro but rather
> this one:
> >>
> >> http://code.ossystems.com.br/gitweb?p=meta-ossystems-
> base.git;a=shortl
> >> og;h=refs%2Fheads%2Fmaster
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Osier-mixon, Jeffrey
> >> <jeffrey.osier-mixon at intel.com> wrote:
> >>> Hi all
> >>>
> >>> OS Systems is a YP Participant organization in Brazil. Its
> principal
> >>> person is Otavio Salvador, whom many people know as a very strong
> >>> member of the YP community. Otavio is the maintainer for the
> >>> meta-fsl-* layers and the meta-freescale mailing list.
> >>>
> >>> OS Systems is a very small organization. They have LF membership
> >>> through the Automotive Group, but they do not have a prayer for
> being
> >>> able to afford YP membership.
> >>>
> >>> Otavio has asked about YP Compatible status for their distro for
> thin
> >>> clients: ThinTerminal. Since he is such a prominent member of the
> >>> community, I told him I would advocate on his behalf. This distro
> is
> >>> technically compatible with YP and built by it, and would
> immediately
> >>> qualify for Compatible if the parent organization were able to join
> >>> the project.
> >>>
> >>> Please let me know on this thread what you think about giving an
> >>> exception to OS Systems and granting YP Compatible status for this
> >>> distro.
> >>>
> >>> OS Systems: http://www.ossystems.com.br
> >>>
> >>> thanks
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Jeff Osier-Mixon http://jefro.net/blog Yocto Project Community
> >>> Manager @Intel http://yoctoproject.org
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jeff Osier-Mixon http://jefro.net/blog Yocto Project Community
> Manager
> >> @Intel http://yoctoproject.org
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jeff Osier-Mixon http://jefro.net/blog
> > Yocto Project Community Manager @Intel http://yoctoproject.org
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