NYCPHP Meetup

[Norman ONeil]

I am happy to see that all of you were able to get together on this. 
Must have been quite upsetting for everyone for the whole group to 
leave the Miro fold.

Best wishes and if there is anything I can do to help please let me know

norman

On Aug 18, 2005, at 12:13 PM, Mitch Pirtle wrote:

> On 8/18/05, Ryan W. Ozimek <cozimek at picnet.net> wrote:
>> Mitch,
>>
>> Man, I just got back from SF as well, and bummed to see this.  I know 
>> you
>> can't discuss this in detail, but what do you "feel" about this?  If 
>> the
>> core dev team is staying with Mambo, does this really affect the code 
>> base
>> itself?
>>
>> I'm interested to see what happens...
>
> Well, the decision took some time, as we wanted to get every single
> person involved in Mambo to be on board with the decision; and then we
> needed legal counsel to be certain of our rights.
>
> In short, every single person that worked on the core, documentation,
> translation and forum moderation is on the same team at
> OpenSourceMatters. We jokingly call it a spoon, instead of a fork, as
> this is not a couple disgruntled workers but the whole freaking
> factory!
>
> The original Mambo is now deserted, save for a dictator, his cronies,
> and a former developer that abandoned the community (and developers)
> almost a year ago. To top that off, we are now noticing many posts
> getting deleted from the mamboserver forums, so you will be looking at
> a single-voiced opinion over there instead of a community, and real
> quick.
>
> The CMS Formerly Known As Mambo (insert squiggly logo here) is going
> to be just fine, the support has been outstanding and we are having a
> bit of a lovefest between the developers and the community at the
> moment.
>
> This IMHO is the biggest, most important part of all this, as the 3PDs
> and user community really set us apart from the rest.
>
> We have the Software Freedom Law Center on our side, with some really
> impressive people providing backing. So the new organization that gets
> setup will not be done like the current farce (Mambo Foundation); and
> will have true accountability and transparency - and most important,
> DEMOCRACY.
>
> --
> Mitch Pirtle
> OpenSourceMatters.org
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