ISV Special Interest Group

This is the independent software vendors (ISV) special interest group (SIG).

Mission

Goals:

• Create stronger bonds between Fedora and interested ISVs.
• Help ISVs resolved problems unique to their situation.
• Present lessons, content, and processes to the rest of the Fedora Project that help the adoption of open source software that is connected with ISVs.

How:

• Announce the SIG presence within the Fedora universe
• Get together on the mailing list
• Find out what problems we have individually and in common
• Seek out solutions to those problems
• Document in the wiki, teach others
• ...
• Profit!

Who

• LeeFaus (Alfresco)
• Karsten Wade (Red Hat)
• New folks should add themselves here

Participating ISVs

Please add your ISV here, alphabetical order is great.

• Alfresco
• Red Hat

Events

• Red Hat Summit and Fedora Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon)

Resources for ISVs

Stub section

Considering Shipping Your Product for Fedora? Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) is the premier Fedora repository for packages branched and maintained for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, CentOS 5, and other Enterprise Linux derivatives.

Resources for SIG members

Stub section

• Join Fedora, including creating a Fedora account.

Communication

• Weekly meetings on IRC -- not set yet
• IRC channel -- needed? #epel is relatively unused on irc.freenode.net and populated with useful technical talent.
• Email list -- fedora-isv-sig-list
  • Archives

References

This SIG was created on 02 May 2008 by LeeFaus and KarstenWade.

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