Re: [OSS] Re: Vietnamese experience with CVS or similar

Richard, all,

there was - and probably is still ongoing - a debate on what to favour:
localize an existing "international" distro (RedHat, Mandrake, etc.), or
make an own one (like RedFlag in China).

In general, I prefer to localize eg. Mandrake (which is in fact done
already) over an own Vietnamese one.

However, if the Vietnamese distro is done in "Debian style", i.e. as a
community project, i.e. not by a single company, then there are some
distinct advantages:
- Training for students etc. on how to participate in such a project
with the hope that they use that knowledge then also on other projects.
- Fostering of the spirit of sharing.

So maybe we should aim at both:
- a localized "international" distro like Mandrake with target for businesses,
which need a stable supply
- an "own" community distro for geeks, etc.

Question "only": Who would be willing and able to coach such a project?

My 300 VND (about 2 cents)

Stefan

At 00:07 29.01.2003 +0000, you wrote:
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> it looks to me, that virtually nobody inside Vietnam contributes to the
> development of any major SW package. There is some "take it and use it"
> (see the Vietnamese Linux Distros and OpenOffice translations), but
> nothing
> is fed back to the project.
>
>This calls for spreading a different idea of what our community is all
>about: the idea that we should help each other. There are many ways
>to do that, some involving more work than others.
>
>One easy method that will help indirectly is to call these distros
>"GNU/Linux Distros". That will help spread awareness of GNU and its
>philosophy, which is rather different from the philosophy associated
>with the name "Linux". GNU is associated with an idealistic
>plan to build our community.
>
>The effect of this is indirect and slow; but it is also a very small
>amount of work. You may as well do it, if you don't have time to
>help in some more active way.

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