Topic: Shad Lords has joined the ClearFoundation Team

[bluejay]

Just noticed this over at ClearOS.

http://www.clearfoundation.com/ClearFoundation-Blog/376-shad-lords-joins-the-clearfoundation-team.html
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Shad Lords has joined the ClearFoundation Team as a core ClearOS developer. With Shad's background with SME Server, Shad brings a wealth of experience in Linux development. Key members of the SME Server Foundation - Charlie Brady, Shad Lords and Greg Zartman - have been on the ClearFoundation Committee for some time. There is obvious synergy between SME and ClearOS since both are Red Hat derivations.

"ClearOS is really exciting. The ClearFoundation Team is a solid group with a clear development path. It will be fun to contribute new ideas and develop new features for the ClearOS roadmap." Shad Lords added, "I believe ClearOS will lead the open source market with new, powerful innovations for small business and distributed IT."
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[cactus]

Congratulations Shad, I hope SME Server can benefit and grow prosperous.

[johnp]

Is this good or bad? I can see being on the comittee, but core developer status has me wondering.

Best wishes for Shad, I do hope he gets some finacial reward for his efforts.

[cactus]

Is this good or bad? I can see being on the comittee, but core developer status has me wondering.

I see no harm, but benefits. Both SME Server and ClearOS have some strong points. IMHO we can benefit from them and they from us in the true OS spirit.
For instance the samba packages we provide for SME Server 8, to support Windows 7, is a rebuild from the ClearOS package, where they, on the other side, now use the same build infrastructure that SME Server/Contribs.org uses to generate the packages that was setup for contribs.org by Shad.