Query results: August, 2007

With only two of us, the name “summit” might be exaggerated; but we found the title amusing, and the meeting was as serious as a top corporation board assembly. The 2007 edition of the GNU/Linux Matters Summit, held in Madrid, is over.

The result is that we have made excellent progress on a number of important things. Meeting in person allows much more productive communication, so we could reflect on where we stand and where we are heading.

Our main priority is making GLM work more efficient, or in short, scaling up. –> read it all

We’ve had the pleasure of being contacted for an interview by Don Parris, editor of Blue GNU, a recently-launched Free Software news and opinion site.

We took turns in answering questions, which give a nice overview of what the non-profit has done so far - if you’re not familiar with our background, you might find it an interesting read.

It was quite a pleasure answering questions, thank you Don!

The activities and strategy of GNU/Linux Matters will be discussed over four days in Madrid, starting August 17th. With two participants (Olivier and Gustavo) this can hardly be called a “GLM Summit” ; -), but if you happen to be nearby and are interested in GLM, come along for a chat and we’ll get you a drink.

More than one year after GetGNULinux.org first went online, and six months after the non-profit was established, it is time for important decisions. We have a strong desire to see GNU/Linux Matters grow into a successful, sustainable project. A variety of topics will be addressed, the main of which are:

• Technical infrastructure behind the websites (namely, the dreaded switch to DocBook and management of translations);
• Brief overview of security (prompted by the incident last June);
• Financial matters, including fund-raising and search for patrons and commercial partners;
• And especially, where to move next. We have plenty of ideas (hint), to address a variety of issues and different audiences; we must build a precise roadmap and allocate our (limited) time resources wisely.

There will, of course, be a good amount of communication afterwards, as keeping our strategies secret is not in our habits.

We have, by the way, recently added a who’s who page on this site, in case one would wish to know who really is behind this terrific, mysterious rocking one-of-its-kind project = )