Yes, having a common point for contact with industry analysts is a good
thing and yes if this gets launched I will volunteer to be one of the
participants...

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From: Rodent of Unusual Size [mailto:Ken.Coar@Golux.Com]
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 6:04 PM
To: board@opensource.org
Cc: license-discuss@opensource.org
Subject: Re: Governance and responsibility


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James McGovern wrote:
> If they are not conducting daily briefings with the likes of the Gartner
> Group on high quality open source software that isn't supported by
> commercial endevors then bad information will go out the door.

Yikes!  A) Daily briefings by volunteers?  B) Gartner and such
would participate in daily briefings on stuff they consider marginal?
Less coverage != bad coverage, any more than more == good.

> I would love
> to see projects such as Drools, Liferay and others be covered by the
analyst
> space.

Are you volunteering to help?  Maybe that would be an interesting
aspect of community involvement: different projects having
input through a OSI-sponsored (or whomever) PR clearinghouse.
And not one for censoring, either; clearinghouse as in a
common point of contact for the analysts.  (Wrong word, but
I'm in haste..)
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