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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Development process in the Ada community
Date: 13 Apr 2002 08:24:05 -0500
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In article <3CB7E244.4090105@snafu.de>, Michael Erdmann <Michael.Erdmann@snafu.de> writes:
> Before the whole thread gets completly out of control,
> i like to get your ideas how such a "fast" process could
> be established?
> 
> Such a process could have the following key attributes:
> 
> - Public, all working results should be freely available
> - Open to the open source community and companies if they
>    comply to open source rules.

If membership on the deliberative body is based on criteria
other than the contribution one might make to the effort,
such as the criterion of being some "open source" entity,
that would be a mistake.