[Consortium] [Management] Linuxaudio.org update

[Ivica Ico Bukvic]

Thank you, James for your thoughts, as well as for reaching out to the 
Foundation. It seems to me we may want to expand this discussion to the 
regular LA* lists to broaden participation. Thoughts?

Best,

Ico

On 3/8/2018 6:49 AM, Daniel James wrote:
> Hi Ico,
>
>> by January 2018 those numbers grew to over 10TB of monthly traffic with
>> over 7 million hits spread across 40 vhosts.
> Woot!
>
>> I believe it is
>> time to once again mobilize the management group and to establish an
>> advisory board or a steering committee that will help steer the
>> consortium and jointly explore ways to provide better and more
>> consistent support, ensure we offer up-to-date information, to grow the
>> resources, their visibility, and footprint
> Sounds good to me :-)
>
>> as well as consider
>> establishing a foundation that may help facilitate and support critical
>> programs, including the LAC conference.
> I think we'd need at least one major sponsor to cover the overheads of a
> foundation. There are a whole bunch of big companies now shipping
> millions of audio-critical products based on the Linux kernel, compared
> to hardly any when we started.
>
> So I'd suggest the first step would be to find someone prepared to reach
> out to the likes of Google, TI or Toyota for support, preferably someone
> used to dealing with corporates. Sponsorship opportunities for this
> year's LAC would be a good, low commitment way for them to get involved.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Daniel
>