Announcing LXDE Fedora Remix 11

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Donnerstag, den 18.06.2009, 16:04 -0700 schrieb Toshio Kuratomi:
> On 06/18/2009 02:41 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> 
> > There is no SIG yet because A SIG needs APPROVAL from the board. But
> > there already are couple of people interested: Marc Wiriadisastra, Simon
> > Wesp, Sebastian Vahl and two people from the LXDE team who have joined
> > Fedora recently but are still waiting for sponsorship in the ambassadors
> > group. And me of course as the main LXDE maintainer.
> > 
> I was under the impression that a subproject needed some sort of
> approval but a SIG was much more free-form.  I was unable to find
> anything useful on the wiki to confirm or deny this, though.

You are correct, I re-read the "Defining projects" page [1] and realized
I was wrong. Quote:

> It is not necessary, however, for contributors to receive the approval
> of any existing body to form a SIG. Some ideas may not even involve
> support from existing Fedora Project bodies. The Fedora Project Board
> retains the right, however, to provide oversight over any SIG if
> necessary, to appoint a body to that end, or to move a SIG under the
> umbrella of an existing body. Such actions should rarely be necessary,
> though, given a SIG with a well-defined mission and objectives.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Defining_projects

> -Toshio

Kind regards,
Christoph