[advocacy-discuss] Creating a formal procedure to assign contributor status to the advocacy CG.

[Jim Grisanzio]

Brian Gupta wrote:
> Jim,
> 
> Currently the advocacy CG, has a large number of participants, but very few
> designated contributors, and core contributors. 

Oh, not to worry. We have a lot, actually. We are clearly one of the 
biggest CGs out there, and we have the ability to be the biggest by a 
massively long margin. We just need to get active and vote, that's all.

> I think it's time we
> resolved this, and came up with a formal procedure for assigning people
> contributor status.

Shawn and I suggested a quick method here:
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/advocacy-discuss/2007-December/001407.html
That's a reasonable start. We'll see what others think.

> I feel this is important, as the 2008 OGB elections are upcoming, and only
> designated contributors and core contributors are eligible to vote.

Only Core Contributors can vote. It's confusing, I agree. The next OGB 
will have to fix that.

> One possible place to start. Should we automatically assign contributor
> status to active user group leaders?

I'd like for each UG tell us who their Core Contributors are. Maybe put 
up a wiki and vote? This way it's always voluntary. The UG leads are 
generally pretty easy since they are involved. What I'm after is the 
*thousands* of UG members who may not be that involved in the main 
community. Now *that* is a voting block. :) How many of those guys are 
doing interesting things out there that could earn them Core Contributor 
status? I don't know. We need the UG leads to tell us that. I *always* 
meet people in China that need Core Contributor status, and I just met a 
gallon of people in India who are very interested in this sort of 
activity. The OpenSolaris on opensolaris.org is just one community. 
There are others that are developing and they will have a say in all 
this. We just need to make some connections so the various OpenSolaris 
communities are talking to each other. We are no longer one community. 
We are many.

> Thanks,
> Brian
> 
> P.S. - Where is the existing list of advocacy Core contributors and
> contributors?

Under the "grants" tab here: http://vote.opensolaris.org/
yes, it's pretty buried. Needs to be more visible. Sorry about that. :)

Jim
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