[Mageia-discuss] Mageia logo proposals and selection

[Graham Lauder]

On Wednesday 20 Oct 2010 15:15:56 Gustavo Giampaoli wrote:
> 2010/10/19 Graham Lauder <yorick_ at openoffice.org>:
> > The principle idea behind it is that once a community reaches a critical
> > mass it becomes self sustaining, in the case of the Mageia community
> > that would be the point where you could remove all of the founders from
> > the mix and it would keep going.
> 
> I guess Mageia is the result of Mandriva reaching it's critical mass
> (plus other conflicts). We removed Mandriva-the-company (the founder)
> and obtained a self sustaining project.


Critical mass is not a conflict, critical mass is a point where you can take  
out pieces that were once essential to the project without it dying because 
there is sufficient backup to replace that which was removed.  Mandriva never 
had critical mass, that was the point, it required a single corporate entity 
to keep it going.  At this point Mageia doesn't have critical mass because we 
rely on the founders so much. We will get there, however it takes time.
 
Cheers
GL

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