[advocacy-discuss] Merger and Migration Status and Final Deadline

[Jim Grisanzio]

hey ...

I've updated the UG leaders grid. It's all green, but it's certainly not 
all complete. It was getting confusing with each group being in a 
different state of opening or migrating or finding new leaders, and I've 
been doing a lot of mailing back and forth with various groups. So I 
thought that if a group has a project and/or a list that is open and the 
group is functioning in any visible way than I think it should be 
considered an "open" UG. Sound reasonable?

I also added a "status" column to the grid that hopefully accurately 
describes the state of each group. If not, let me know. Now, activity is 
another matter, but I can't control that. :) Here's the updated grid:
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/usergroups/ug-leaders/

I also updated the UG project proposal process to make it easier to 
understand: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/usergroups/
Let me know if it's not clear.

Issues:

There are a hand full of groups that have not opened their projects yet, 
and I'm no longer pinging them to move. After a few emails of no 
response I have to move on and assume they are not interested in opening 
their project.

But more importantly, there are still a few groups who have not moved 
their content from their old UG Community pages to their new projects. I 
need to close that community to complete the merger. Both the Marketing 
and Immigrants communities are closed and merged into Advocacy, and the 
UG community needs to close as per the consolidation we agreed to and 
the OGB specified.

*Final Deadline Proposal*

Three months should be enough time to move what amounts to just a few 
pages for most groups, so I'd like to suggest that we make next Friday 
Oct 5 the final deadline to close the old UG community and complete this 
merger. If any user group has content there at that time, it will be 
deleted. If a user group doesn't want to then open a project, that's 
fine, but the old UG community is going away and that means what's left 
of the old UG pages will go away as well. I have pinged many groups a 
half dozen times on this, so I have to move on now. Sound reasonable?

Jim
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Jim Grisanzio http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris