What Does Openness Mean?

Open Source

We will not produce "open core" software.

We are committed to creating truly open source software that is usable and scalable. Truly open source software is not feature or performance limited and is not crippled. There will be no "Enterprise Edition".

We use the Apache License, 2.0.

OSI approved,
GPLv3 compatible
DFSG compatible

Open Design

We are committed to an open design process. Every six months the development community will hold a design summit to gather requirements and write specifications for upcoming release. The summits, which are open to the public, will include users, developers, and upstream projects. We will gather requirements and produce an approved roadmap used to guide development for the next six months.

Open Development

We will maintain a publicly available source code repository through the entire development process. This will make participation simpler and will allow users to follow the development process, and participate in QA at an early stage.

Open Community

One of our core goals is to produce a healthy, vibrant developer and user community. Most decisions will be made using a lazy consensus model. All processes will be documented, open and transparent.

We make the following promises:

The community will be involved in the design process. You can help make this software meet your needs.
The community will have representation on the technical board, which has the ability to override decisions by the project lead.
This will always be truly free software. We will never purposefully limit the functionality or scalability of the software to try and sell you an "enterprise" version
All project meetings will be held in public IRC channels and recorded.