Welcome to OpenPKG.net
2006-01-18:Minutes of
the annual
General Meeting
now available! …home of the OpenPKG Foundation e.V., the social network backing the Open Source software project OpenPKG. For years OpenPKG has been the undisputed world leading instrument for deployment and maintenance of Open Source Unix software when administration crosses platform boundaries. The unique OpenPKG architecture leverages proven technologies like Red Hat Package OpenPKG is the world-leading cross-platform multi-instance Unix software packaging solution. Manager (RPM) and OSSP and GNU components to establish a unified software administration environment, independent of the underlying Unix operating system. An outstanding feature of OpenPKG is its possibility to be deployed multiple times on a single system.
The OpenPKG Foundation e.V. is a nonprofit organization with the
dedicated goal of supporting the OpenPKG project. The idea to organize
the social network of OpenPKG was born by Ralf S. Engelschall and
Thomas Lotterer in January 2005. A month later, on 09-Feb-2005,
the nine founders Herbert Schmid, Manuel Hendel, Peter Kajinski,
The OpenPKG Foundation is a non-profit organization providing the
ideational, financial, material and manned support to OpenPKG.
Richard Maier, Thomas Lotterer, Ralf S. Engelschall, Torsten Homeyer,
Christoph Schug and Michael Schloh von Bennewitz kicked off the
Foundation. Official registration under German law was completed
on 18-Mar-2005. Today the OpenPKG Foundation e.V. counts seventeen
members and is open for more to join. Hosting of the Foundation's
equipment is sponsored by SpaceNet since late 2004.
If you are already an OpenPKG aficionado and want togive your enthusiasm a wider scope, JOIN the club!
