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From: Christian Bauer <christian.bauer@gmail.com>
Date: 2008/6/30
Subject: Re: NH site
To: Fabio Maulo <fabiomaulo@gmail.com>
Cc: Ayende Rahien <ayende@ayende.com>

The NHibernate project is part of the Hibernate umbrella, that includes the domain name and trademark. This is A Good Thing for all the projects and it helped NHibernate grow to what it is today. This will not change, the NHibernate and Hibernate projects will stay together under the same brand, with the known domains, and they will be marketed (on websites and such) together.

Now, we also know that the hibernate.org/nhibernate.org infrastructure including the website software, wiki, and forums are no longer state of the art. Indeed, they have been installed 5 years ago and have been running since with little modification. Of course we all want the best software and tools to run our projects.

We are currently discussing the migration of the Hibernate forums and website to a new software, here at Red Hat. This is a completely new platform based on quality forums/wiki/CMS software, and it will be rolled out later this year. It will also power jboss.org - a much larger community we'd all benefit from once we are part of it.

This is the ideal opportunity for you guys to be involved in such an effort and to express your needs. Your contact for that is Mark. He knows what this is about and he can discuss with you any requirements you have for running NHibernate and growing its community.

Let me emphasize here that isolating yourself is not the right path for growth, being part of a larger group is.

If you do not agree with this strategy: The software is under LGPL. You can fork and rename it and do whatever you think is best.