I like the idea of defining Debian as an engineering philosophy. I think Biella Coleman (and myself) would even hestitantly took it beyond a philosophy one degree to an engineering “ethic.”

In any case, in as useful as distinguishing between the Debianness of differen organizations is, I think your model is a good one. I think its usefulness may lie in providing a framework in which being a community player (being “Debianny”) is a seen as a good thing and becomes a force by which companies and projects are encouraged to work together.

I’m looking forward to working together and I’d love it if the CDD project could become a place where we work on collaborating with each other and on developing some of the tools that I honestly believe have a chance to redefine the way that people and projects interact with Debian in a way that I think may be the foundation of Debian’s next major evolution.