[advocacy-discuss] The OpenSolaris "Attitude"

[Peter Tribble]

On 9/22/07, Jim Grisanzio <Jim.Grisanzio at sun.com> wrote:
> Some other questions for conversation:
>
> * How are we doing with respect to leadership? I know some are not happy
> with the leadership on OpenSolaris. I disagree with that view. I 've
> come to believe that the leadership in this community is extremely
> diversified and distributed among many people. Thus, it's difficult to
> quantify. There simply is no /single/ leader, in other words. That's
> just my view, though. Regardless, leadership is critical to culture and
> I'm wonder how people feel about it in that context.

This seems to mirror another conversation on another thread. And
as I said there, it's down to community groups to provide leadership,
and the leadership of community groups has to emerge from within
the membership of those communities. Community groups have
been slow to pick this up, and we have nobody but ourselves as
individual members of those communities to blame for that.

> * Are the User Groups growing to expectations? Some at Sun want to see
> many more but I have zero resources. Any suggestions on how to grow more
> of a UG community? I think we are doing pretty well in that our user
> groups are now "projects" so they have been elevated in status on the site.

I still think this is slightly broken - as I've said before, I would like to
see User Groups listed separately.

(They're still operated and created using the project mechanism, just
having a separate top-level category on the website to make them
more prominent and easier to find. Would make the project list more
manageable too.)

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