On Oct 25, 2011, at 3:18 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> >> Agreed. We need to pick a neutral domain name. office-security.org is >> apparently free. >> >> Some institution needs to buy domain registration. I've been the volunteer >> registrar for a social groups domain, it is a pain to transition. This needs >> to be an institution, it could be Team OOo? >> > > I think they are too close to the matter. SPI exists specifically to hold > assets in trust - perhaps they would hold the registration for us all? If > we agree I'd be happy to volunteer to contact them. > > It's also possible we could ask OSI to do it - Jim Jagielski and I are both > on the Board at present.
These are both interesting ideas. > > >> >> An ISP for hosting the private ML needs to be selected. Dennis suggests >> that the ASF could be that ISP for free. <slight snip/> And: <insert> On Oct 25, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote: <snip/> > > If we basically agree that such a list as outlined by me is a way to go, I am > happy to ask a friend of mine who has a very good reputation in being a mail > server, mailing list and security expert, with a very good track record, > including all sorts of certifications. He is offering e-mail services as > business. > > I just don't want to spread the name publically without asking him first, and > I don't want to ask him, before we have some common understanding. :-) > </insert> >> >> securityteam@oo.o is migrated to whatever the new list is, and those >> people start administrating. >> >> I think it is very important for the public to know who all of the projects >> are on the shared ML. >> >> Are we done already :-) Let's let the world revolve to see if we have some Consensus. Regards, Dave >> >> Regards, >> Dave >> >>> >>> That is fair to anyone, does not exclude anyone, does not benefit one >>> over the other -- it's easy, simple, and the best way to go. Sure, >>> everyone can create own aliases pointing to that list, but the core is >>> the same, and that's what matters. >>> >>> If you folks now start complaining about we don't trust Apache, we can >>> answer by complaining you don't trust TDF and so on. It's a horrible >>> waste of time, it's lame, it does not help anyone, and it makes me doubt >>> we're talking amongst adults, seriously. >>> >>> And, really, all this crap being tossed around about trustworthiness, >>> upstream, downstream, code similarities and insults is worth not even >>> the digital paper it's written on. >>> >>> I made a simple, plain, and easy proposal. Don't make things overly >>> complicated, folks. >>> >>> Thanks for considering, >>> Florian >>> >>> -- >>> Florian Effenberger <flo...@documentfoundation.org> >>> Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation >>> Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 >>> Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff >>> >> >> > > > -- > Simon Phipps > +1 415 683 7660 : www.webmink.com
