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

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.

For general technical discussions around everything from packaging to the direction of the distro, participate in fedora-devel-list.

The list for Java discussion on the same development and packaging topics is fedora-devel-java-list.

Other topical discussion lists are references on Communicate and listed on http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo.

Resources for SIG members

• Join Fedora, including creating a Fedora account.

Communication

• Email list -- fedora-isv-sig-list
  • Archives
• Weekly meetings on IRC -- not set yet
• IRC channel -- #epel on irc.freenode.net

References

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