Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration

Yes. As dlang said, there are many creative ways projects can cooperate, and things become really interesting in the realm of Free Software. The important part is to stay in touch and try to talk to others while implementing new stuff (watch, for example, the Emacs vs. XEmacs cooperation these days. When introducing changes, thought goes into how those changes can benefit both).

Things which come to mind cross-distro:

* Abstract package structure (which attributes, what's a dependency, etc.)
* Translations (why has Puppy Linux so few translations compared to Debian. They are free to use, after all. What can be done about that)

No need to be directly able to install an RPM in Debian (although even this is somewhat possible these days!)