[committee] Draft sponsorship letter to Sun

[James Andrewartha]

On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, Davyd Madeley wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 06:13:14PM +0800, David Adam wrote:
>> - we still haven't fulfilled our sponsorship obligations to Linux
>> Australia. I am not happy for us to go pursuing more sponsorship until
>> we've proved that we'll meet the conditions of taking people's money.
>
> AFAIK, this is blocking on two technical problems:
> 1) sensible authentication (eg. LDAP) so we can set them as being
>    part of the manbo-only group in our authentication system.

Just adding them as local users wouldn't suffice?

> 2) marblefish deployment so we can handle developer logins
> 3) someone to start building GNOME... uh, me I guess

Yeah, I was meaning to ask Gman about the tinderboxing of JDS Sun was 
apparently going to be setting up. Of course we should be building vanilla 
gnome as well.

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