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From: Carl Georgecarl@redhat.com Sent: Wednesday 8th January 2020 17:01 To: The CentOS developers mailing list. centos-devel@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] A Big Idea for a New Decade [was: Minutes for CentOS Board of Directors 2019-12-18 Meeting]

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While I agree with consolidation, over time, of the SIGs, I do think the name should be “Enterprise Linux Community SIGs” or similar. I get that Red Hat has a massive influence in all four flavours (Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, Streams), but for someone new to the communities, it could be confusing to refer to them as “Red Hat”, as most people outside the community see “Red Hat” as referring only to “RHEL” and not the wider Enterprise Linux ecosystem.

Fedora is not Enterprise Linux.  To me, the name "Enterprise Linux Community" excludes Fedora.  Im not married to the name "Red Hat Community", but its the best name I can think of that accurately conveys the scope.  What term would you use to describe the entire ecosystem of Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, CentOS Stream, and EPEL?  Ive always called this the "Red Hat ecosystem".

To me the Red Hat ecosystem has always been RHEL plus all RHXXX products plus upstream work. The entire ecosystem is all RPM based but "RPM Community SIGs" is not inclusive enough so does not do it for me. How about "Open Community SIGs" or "Open Linux Community SIGs"? It's neutral. It's Open. This is the way :-)

Best, Patrick