[advocacy-discuss] [news-discuss] Opensolaris.org "News" WTF??

[Jim Grisanzio]

W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
> This thought is probably too impractical b/c it would require too much effort.  But it is a thought nevertheless.
>
> Sometimes I hope this "News" spot is the place that I will be able to find OpenSolaris-related info first-hand.
>   

It could be if we wanted it to be.

> For example, Intel officially announced the release of Centrino 2 today.  I am sure someone @ Sun must have been working on its compatibility.  Anticipating Centrino 2's release, perhaps someone who knows what's going on (inside Sun) could have arranged to have a blog written specifically for that purpose, which can then be released synchronously with Intel's announcement.  It's a pity that we are totally in the dark. :-(
>   

Well corp announcements are always kept to a relatively few number of 
people even inside the company, so don't take it personally. :) I had no 
clue about the Intel announcement, and if Sun were involved I'd not even 
see that until it hit the press. That's just an example. However, I 
think it's fine if marketing wanted to post OpenSolaris-related 
announcements to opensolaris-announce and then post the resulting news 
coverage to the News page. I don't think anyone wants corporate press 
releases on advocacy-discuss, though, and it's not even necessary to 
post the full press release on opensolaris-announce. Just a pointer to 
big news would be helpful with a sentence or two of summary.

> As another Example, Mike Dillon is doing an excellent job of reporting the Sun-NetApp ZFS litigation.  I was surprised that his blog was not picked up by Slashdot.  This is an important issue (especially in terms of wanting the general public to submit patent-invalidating prior art), but we just forgot about it.  It is much easier to herd the general public to follow our own (improved) version of Slashdot, which would have picked up Mike's blog, than the hundreds of Sun blogs.
I think we should all feel free to post issues to advocacy-discuss for 
discussion. You read something you feel is important and want kick it 
around on list. Do it. Information is distributed so much that no one 
can keep track of it all.

Jim

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