it's not inconceiveable. take someone known for contributing to an open source project like apache, ask them to help make a make a decision, and if they agree to help, both sides present their arguments and counter arguments, then the arbiter decides. ----- Original Message ----- From: Zach To: "Netrek Development Mailing List" Subject: Re: [netrek-dev] creating netrek authority Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:36:24 -0400 On 7/18/07, . . wrote: > > One alternative we may consider would be mediation from outside FOSS admins > if it facilitates forward progress. Of course we'd need to agree on > selecting which FOSS and which admin(s)... You mean an FOSS admin would volunteer to direct the Vanilla project? I never heard of this before. Why would they do this if they have no interest in or connection with netrek? Zach _______________________________________________ netrek-dev mailing list netrek-dev at us.netrek.org http://mailman.us.netrek.org/mailman/listinfo/netrek-dev -- We've Got Your Name at http://www.mail.com! Get a FREE E-mail Account Today - Choose From 100+ Domains -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.us.netrek.org/pipermail/netrek-dev/attachments/20070718/21db5d4c/attachment.htm