[cAos] caos3 development

[Greg M. Kurtzer]

The next generation of cAos is in development, here and now!

As some of you also know, we are in a position to receive funding for
development. However our funding backers (myself included) have been
watching our current development emphasis and while we have a very
current and maintained Enlightenment stack, we need to also pay as much
(and even more) attention to our services and security.

To accommodate this, cAos-3 primary emphasis is performance, efficiency,
services and security. Our targeted user-base is clustered systems and
servers for ISP, home and office. Secondary emphasis will include other
more general distribution aspects.

The goal is not only to appeal to our potential funders, but also grow
into an area to which I have heard various complaints that there isn't a
reasonable solution for. While the Linux desktop and general purpose
distributions are very important, they also have been solved very well
by both commercial and non-commercial organizations.

I know everyone is busy, I am as well. However we can not expect to get
backed by individuals or other organizations that see very little
progress where they need it most or significantly grow our user-base. It
is time to focus and get stuff done.

At this time, I have the base self hosting development file system
nearing completion. From here I will need package maintainers,
developers, doc writers, and anyone else that wants to be part of the
development group to contact me. I am open to discussing positions for
not only guru developers and maintainers, but also newcomers that want
to be part of an open source project that many people use.

While cAos-2 was a loosely managed project where contributors come and
go and commit when they have time, cAos-3 will be much more structured
and organized higher emphasis on leadership and chain of command. We
will operate more as a unit and as a team bringing a higher level of
professionalism to the project.

Thus I am looking for people to not only volunteer but also commit to long
term maintenance of various aspects of caos3. We have some very intriguing
opportunities in-front of us and we need to be more aggressive and focused
if we are to reach the next level.

Thanks,
Greg
-- 
Greg M. Kurtzer
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http://caosity.org/
http://warewulf-cluster.org/

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