[advocacy-discuss] The OpenSolaris "Attitude"

[Jim Grisanzio]

Peter Tribble wrote:
> 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.

I totally agree.


>> * 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.)

Since I've been sort of driving this million-mile migration to projects 
for the last three months, I can see a lot of merit in what you are 
saying. I love having the UGs as projects, though. That gives them 
better site functionality. Derek also shares your view that the UGs 
should eventually be listed separately with something like this -- 
Communities * Projects * User Groups. That may have to wait until we can 
get some site help, but for now I think I can argue for some space on 
the front page to point to the UG grid so all the groups are just *one* 
click away. That would solve an immediate problem until we can get the 
long term solution. I'll work on that as the next step ...

Jim
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