[advocacy-discuss] [ogb-discuss] Indiana as the OpenSolaris xxxx distro (was Re: [smf-discuss] Review for 6608098)

[John Plocher]

Brandorr wrote:
> I'm not sure that this is what is happening. 

Ian and Sara said or strongly implied that this discussion/decision was
being made by the Sun OpenSolaris marketing and Branding people who were
among the core contributers of the Advocacy (nee Marketing CG), and that
this was a presentation from that group.  I'm taking them at their word.

I'm also aware that Sun does not have to do this.  It owns the trademark.

That Sara made a presentation about branding at OSDS07 is a step in the
right direction.  Her proposal was a great beginning, but it isn't at all
ready for prime time - witness this discussion.

I'm hopeful that Sara, Ian and the other Sun Decision-Makers will follow
up on this and choose to use the Advocacy Community to hold their
discussions, evolve their proposals, and ask for a vote (even if they
don't technically need to).  This is all part of /BUILDING/ a community
around ourselves.

I have deep reservations, don't get me wrong.  The facts seem to be
that there has been NO prior advocacy CG discussions about this topic,
that the *first* external discussion of this was a set of slides at
OSDS07, that Ian is leading with his mouth without first building
consensus here, that there appear to be over 100 Core Contributers
in the Advocacy CG,  most of which are User Group leaders and not
branding/marketing experts, that OGB members will do more destructive
complaining and less constructive leading....

So, instead of bitching and moaning, I've joined the Advocacy community
and submitted a revised proposal.  Wish me luck. Follow me there and
contribute.

   -John



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