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[Mark Withington]

Same here.  Please keep us all apprised of what can be done to help.

Best for luck,

Mark
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mambo-bounces at lists.nyphp.org 
> [mailto:mambo-bounces at lists.nyphp.org] On Behalf Of Norman ONeil
> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 3:08 PM
> To: NYPHP SIG: Mambo
> Subject: Re: [mambo] Big changes in Mamboland
> 
> 
> I am happy to see that all of you were able to get together on this. 
> Must have been quite upsetting for everyone for the whole group to 
> leave the Miro fold.
> 
> Best wishes and if there is anything I can do to help please 
> let me know
> 
> norman
> 
> On Aug 18, 2005, at 12:13 PM, Mitch Pirtle wrote:
> 
> > On 8/18/05, Ryan W. Ozimek <cozimek at picnet.net> wrote:
> >> Mitch,
> >>
> >> Man, I just got back from SF as well, and bummed to see 
> this.  I know
> >> you
> >> can't discuss this in detail, but what do you "feel" about 
> this?  If 
> >> the
> >> core dev team is staying with Mambo, does this really 
> affect the code 
> >> base
> >> itself?
> >>
> >> I'm interested to see what happens...
> >
> > Well, the decision took some time, as we wanted to get every single 
> > person involved in Mambo to be on board with the decision; 
> and then we 
> > needed legal counsel to be certain of our rights.
> >
> > In short, every single person that worked on the core, 
> documentation, 
> > translation and forum moderation is on the same team at 
> > OpenSourceMatters. We jokingly call it a spoon, instead of 
> a fork, as 
> > this is not a couple disgruntled workers but the whole freaking 
> > factory!
> >
> > The original Mambo is now deserted, save for a dictator, 
> his cronies, 
> > and a former developer that abandoned the community (and 
> developers) 
> > almost a year ago. To top that off, we are now noticing many posts 
> > getting deleted from the mamboserver forums, so you will be 
> looking at 
> > a single-voiced opinion over there instead of a community, and real 
> > quick.
> >
> > The CMS Formerly Known As Mambo (insert squiggly logo here) 
> is going 
> > to be just fine, the support has been outstanding and we 
> are having a 
> > bit of a lovefest between the developers and the community at the 
> > moment.
> >
> > This IMHO is the biggest, most important part of all this, 
> as the 3PDs 
> > and user community really set us apart from the rest.
> >
> > We have the Software Freedom Law Center on our side, with 
> some really 
> > impressive people providing backing. So the new 
> organization that gets 
> > setup will not be done like the current farce (Mambo 
> Foundation); and 
> > will have true accountability and transparency - and most 
> important, 
> > DEMOCRACY.
> >
> > --
> > Mitch Pirtle
> > OpenSourceMatters.org 
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