[advocacy-discuss] LinkedIn OpenSolaris Group

[Alan DuBoff]

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Jim Grisanzio wrote:

> hey ... I'm getting a lot of recruiters requesting membership on the 
> OpenSolaris LinkedIn group. You guys interested in me approving them?

Despite some of the spot-on comments by Rich and others, I have to go 
against the tide here and say that we should let them in.

1) If the group is truly an open group, everyone should be allowed to 
join. Wether they gather lists or not, I think is really not important, 
that could happen anywhere on the net, yahoogroups, opensolaris.org, our 
blogs (all of us, Sun and external), etc...

2) I don't think they get our email address on linkedin, only our linkedin 
contact which email is sent through.

I will say that it's odd that I am siding to let them in, based on the 
open aspect of OpenSolaris, because I have gotten more and more emails 
from head hunters and I'm not sure where they come from. But I'm sure 
others do as well, and I don't think it's anything we can easily stop.

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Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group