On 04/09/13 16:14, Michael Meskes wrote: >> You do not found a peer group by inventing random rules meant to exclude > Please get the facts straight. A group of companies can only be build by > companies, not by random people. And somehow the entity "company" has to be > defined.
Most importantly, what is the aim of picking a random size limit? And where else defines "company" as "one DD and at least 10 people on staff"? I think being a company is about other things, not who and how many workers you have on contract - how would you cope with companies which meet your artificial number by using zero-hours contracts? I think sometimes "company" can be defined as a legal person: that is, a corporation or group which acts similar to a corporation in key ways. That seems a better starting point than numbers of staff, unless there's some other reason behind it. >> > people. Even less so in a Debian eco-system which is built on the spirit >> > of transparency and the ability of welcoming everyone. > Maybe, but then there is no company peer group so far, so we lack the > experience to say how it works best. Should we look at a list where many of the members are representing, controlling and/or acting for companies? Like someone said: the debian-consultants list exists, doesn't it? ;-) So maybe experiment there and what works for those companies may suggest similar tactics that could work for these companies. At the moment, the debian-companies list feels like a solution to no problem yet occurring and that's partly why it has only 4 members. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52278eab.2030...@phonecoop.coop