As a liaison between the development community(standards consumers) and component maintainers(standards producers), the lsb-futures subcommitee needs to promote communication between all involved. This page holds templates for common types of letters, right now these are just initial contact communications.

Goals

• Introduction - On behalf of the LSB, introduce and explain our organization
• Benefit - Explain the benefit of standards
• Criteria - Explain our list of criteria
• Standards - Explain what the LSB would like to standardize and the difference between API and ABI
• Requirements - Point out our spec and testing requirements. Ask if there are any existing efforts in these areas
• Explain that their software is important that's why it was proposed for inclusion
• Explain that we need their participation
• Point them to the candidate page for their software
• Ask for feedback

Candidate Maintainers

Upstream author/maintainers - Introduction
Distribution maintainers - TDB

Development Community

Recruit developers to help with areas they would benefit from standards - TBD

User Community

Recruit users to help with areas they would benefit from standards - TBD