[advocacy-discuss] Advocacy Voting and Project Proposal Process (draft)

[Simon Phipps]

On Feb 15, 2008, at 14:10, Shawn Walker wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 3:38 AM, Brandorr <brandorr at opensolaris.org>  
> wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 4:24 AM, Jim Grisanzio  
>> <Jim.Grisanzio at sun.com> wrote:
>>>   4. User Groups: To get user group infrastructure on  
>>> opensolaris.org,
>>>      you need to send a proposal to advocacy-discuss for approval.  
>>> You
>>>      need one +1 vote and no -1 votes. Only Core Contributors can  
>>> vote,
>>>      and voting is open on advocacy-discuss for five days. Write  
>>> your
>>>      proposal in the following format:
>>>
>>>         1. Name of user group.
>>>         2. Three or more initial participants listed with their
>>>            OpenSolaris user IDs.
>>>         3. A one paragraph description of the group, including  
>>> location
>>>            and activities planned.
>>
>> Is not one participant enough to start a user group? I know when we
>> started it was only two participants, but really only one was needed.
>> (Once the UG is formed, we got more just because it existed and we
>> were able to advertise it's existence.)
>
> I personally think that it is reasonable to expect at least three
> members. It helps ensure we don't have a bunch of unused web pages on
> the website.

I agree, assuming the proposer is counted as the first +1.

S.