Hi Nathan, I worked some more on the announcement. I feel the structure and the content are good enough. This my humble opinion though, feel free to change, substantially even. Since I'm not a native english speaker and not much of a writer, the quality of the content is not great ;-)
http://pad.ceph.com/p/user-committee-announce Cheers On 05/12/2013 16:21, Loic Dachary wrote: > Hi Nathan, > > Here is a very rough draft of the announcement which is going to be released > next monday. It is more a discussion starter than a draft. Feel free to > modify at will :-) It includes the names and affiliations of all founding > members. There may be more in the days to come and I'll add to it when I > receive new applications: > > http://pad.ceph.com/p/user-committee-announce > > It basically is a re-iteration of what has been said during the past few > weeks. I added two sentences about the scope, in a attempt to say that it is > not just about companies but also academics, individuals and non profit ( > there are no governmental agencies yet). And that it's not just technical and > that the legal environment in which Ceph can prosper is something we should > also care about (not just software patents but also the endless amendments to > copyright law that may be detrimental to Free Software in general ). Not > being a native english speaker it's difficult to get it right ;-) > > As for the personalized version of the announcement for each founding member, > I would love to have one to remember this date. The graphics used > http://www.slideshare.net/Inktank_Ceph/erasure-codeceph are under a Free > Software license and you're welcome to use them if you want. I can send you > high resolution versions. > > Cheers > > On 02/12/2013 15:52, Regola, Nathan (Contractor) wrote: >> I'm looking forward to working with everyone involved with the Ceph User >> Committee >> (http://wiki.ceph.com/01Planning/02Blueprints/Firefly/Ceph_User_Committee#D >> etailed_Description). I believe that all of the members of the Ceph User >> Committee should have received an email from Loic asking them to confirm >> their organization's interest in being named a founding member. The formal >> announcement is currently being planned for 10 December and we are working >> on drafting it. >> >> Would members prefer a single general announcement or a personalized >> announcement? A personalized announcement would probably be something like >> an automatically generated PDF file containing a letter (with the member's >> name/affiliation) so that members could distribute it. We are open to >> suggestions. If you have a preference for a general announcement listing >> all of the members or a personalized announcement welcoming the user >> (which obviously could include a list of all members), please reply. >> >> Best Regards, >> Nate Regola >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ceph-users mailing list >> ceph-users@lists.ceph.com >> http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@lists.ceph.com > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com > -- Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre
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