[advocacy-discuss] New Community/Project Request: OpenSolaris Software Porters Community/Portal

[Michal Bielicki]

Hi Folks,
I am overwhelmed by all the +1's, really really encouraging. But I found 
out that what we want to do rather
seems to fit the creation of a new community than a project so I am 
rewriting the proposal as a community proposal to be
proposed to the OGB. If anybody has any tips, comments, suggestions or 
wants to be a contributor, all of that would be very very welcome

Thanks again for the encouragement

Michal

Eric Boutilier wrote:
> +1
>
> -Eric
>
> On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Michal Bielicki wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>> I wanted to create this for a year now, but somehow never got the
>> proposal together. So since now there seem to be quite a bunch of people
>> that want to support this, here is my proposal. I am ready to manage and
>> handle the project and would be also very very thankful for comments,
>> suggestions,
>> proposals and so on.
>>
>> Project/Community Proposal for the OpenSolaris Software Porters 
>> Community
>> Short Name
>> Porting Software to OpenSolaris
>>
>> Sponsoring Communities
>> Desktop ?
>> Polish OpenSolaris UserGroup
>> Indiana ?
>>
>> Initial participants
>> Michal Bielicki
>> Damian Wojslaw
>> Kristopher Januszajtis-Neale
>> Ed Pimentel
>> Alexander Feldman
>> Jay Fenton
>> Mike Jerris
>> Michal Pryc
>>
>>
>> Any OGB members interested?
>> Any Indiana participants interested?
>> Anyone else interested?
>>
>> Description:
>>
>> The project is to create a central space for the collection of
>> information, exchange of information
>> discussion and repository storage of software projects that are being
>> ported to Solaris and OpenSolaris.
>> We would like to collect all the scattered information, like mileks
>> tutorial on IPS packaging, Laca's SFE project
>> and all the other nice and helpful sources in a central space and
>> herewith make porting software to OpenSolaris
>> a far easier Job than it is now, with a supporting IRC channel, a
>> forum/mailing list for experience exchange and
>> discussion and ultimately actively work to get sponsors to provide CPU
>> cycle for Projects that would like to port
>> their code to OpenSolaris (Something along the line of Novells/SuSE
>> Open Build Servers, but for OpenSolaris ?).
>> From personal experience we know that porting can be a horrendously 
>> tricky
>> job if you need to find all the information yourself.
>>
>>
>> Project part:
>> Create and maintain a database of porting projects (SFE, Sunfreeware,
>> blastwave, .....)
>> Create and maintain a list of links to all information available about
>> porting software to solaris/opensolaris/Indiana/whatsitsname
>> Create and maintain a database of documents related to the same
>> Create new documentation, which helps and explains how to port software
>> to the aforementioned
>> Try to create a pool of ressources for porters (ask sponsors for CPU
>> cycles, repository space ... ... ... )
>> Yes I know ... loads of work :)
>>
>> Community part:
>> An information exchange forum/mailing list where porters can discuss
>> experiences and people can ask if someone is already
>> working on a specific package
>> A wiki that will help create part of the project part
>> A portal to all the project part
>>
>> -----------------
>>
>> Any input on what else could be done is very appreciated.
>>
>> cheers
>> Michal
>>
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Michal Bielicki
CEO
http://www.voiceworks.pl/
Voice Works Sp. z o.o. z siedziba w Warszawie przy ulicy Polnej 46/14,
00-644 Warszawa, Polska
wpisana zostala do rejestru przedsiebiorcow prowadzonego przez
Sad Rejonowy dla M.ST.Warszawy w Warszawie,
XII Wydzial Krajowego Rejestru Sadowego pod numerem KRS 0000257259.
NIP 701-00-25-117
Wysokosc kapitalu zakladowego: 51000,00 PLN