[advocacy-discuss] Need help of UG Process

[Raju Alluri]

I am reading the new and updated process regarding new UGs and need help annotating some key items.

Most quotes are from 
   [a] http://opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/policies/project-instantiation.txt
   [b] http://opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/
   [c] http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/governance/

- [b] says New User Groups go thru project instantiation process.
  I feel that (I could be wrong) [a] and [c] mandate that a project requires
  i. a Community Group support (at least one)
  ii. a Project Team that works on an end goal.
  Does the above mean that a UG should get a support from one or 
  more existing community groups or start a community group of their own?
  Or eventually the Community Group and User Group will be the same
  and may work on one or more projects?

- Can a project be non-code contributing? For example, meetings
  of Open Solaris members in an area (current user group model)
  are more towards best practices sharing and awareness building
  than code/intellectual property sharing. Can that activity be called
  a project?

  If we are NOT calling that as a project, will a new UG be fit to be
  in the proposed model?

  If we are calling such activity as a project, then a new UG is nothing but a formal project sponsored by one or more community groups. Is my assumption correct?

  In such case, the old UGs should go ahead and find one or more community groups to sponsor a geo-centric-project and get the proposal to advocacy-discuss. Correct?

- To look at things from a different perspective, the current UGs are some sort of community groups and we are encouraging them towards more project centric. Is that right?

I may have more fine grained questions, but any help around these high level questions would be very helpful.

Regards,
- Raju
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