Dear Enhydra community, Following the ObjectWeb proposal to take over sponsorship of Enhydra.org we, at ObjectWeb, would like to give you some explanations about the intentions behind our offer. ObjectWeb proposes to provide hosting to the Enhydra community in order to allow the seamless continuation of Enhydra.org as an Open Source community. We do not want to impose anything on you guys. We hope that the Enhydra community will become as open as possible, and we think that the fact that we are another open Open Source community provide some guarantee on that. ObjectWeb does not intend to take over the management of projects, but just to maintain the infrastructure. We hope that most project leaders will accept to continue their very valuable work on Enhydra.org. For us, each project leader is fully responsible of his/her project (project web pages, mailing lists, versioning policy, deciding who has write rights on cvs, etc.). For those projects for which there is no project leader any more, we encourage volonteers to take the lead. We have asked Christophe Ney, one of the Enhydra architect and formerly in charge of the coordination between Lutris and ObjectWeb, to help us coordinating the restart of Enhydra projects. It may be useful to formalize somewhat the way the Enhydra community operates, and to have global coordination structure, but again it is up to the Enhydra community to decide. Please do not hesitate to contact us (mailto:contact@objectweb.org) to discuss or clarify anything. More information about ObjectWeb and the way it operates can be found at: http://www.objectweb.org/consortium/index.jsp -- Alexandre Lefebvre, R&D Engineer France Telecom R&D - DTL/ASR 28 chemin du Vieux Chene - B.P. 98 38243 Meylan CEDEX - France phone: +33 4 76 76 45 63 - fax: +33 4 76 76 45 57 email: alexandre.lefebvre@rd.francetelecom.com email: alefebvr@acm.org |