[advocacy-discuss] OSUG Discussion: OGB Reorg and New Webapp Issues

[Laurent Blume]

Im adding only a few points, I approve the other remarks.

Jim Grisanzio a écrit :
>     * Move the OSUGs to opensolaris.com, which is supposed to be evolve
>       into the central user site for the community. The big issue here
>       would be that moving OSUGs to another site would remove them from
>       the OpenSolaris governance system, and we don't know how OSUG
>       members would feel about that.

I don't like that idea - and yet, do we really have a choice? OS.c
already has started taking some activity out of OS.o with its web-only
forums. And saying loud that it is *the* OpenSolaris user community.

OpenSolaris.org is only quickly pointed to as a developer community. So,
if it stays like that, I don't believe that much traffic will end up on
OS.o.

It would look funny if user groups are not part of what is the
self-proclaimed OpenSolaris user community. I guess that «OpenSolaris»
on OS.c means «OpenSolaris 2008.05» while the same word on OS.o means
«the OpenSolaris project».
As I was saying yesterday in a Sun France event: people outside Sun
really have a lot of trouble with that confusion, even some inside Sun,
actually.

Can we avoid making things even more awkward than what they are now?

>     * Choose to assert that OSUGs should be their own collective along
>       with Community Groups and Projects when the new webapp is
>       implemented. The new webapp will allow this functionality. Also,
>       this option would keep the OSUGs within the OpenSolaris governance
>       system, thus preserving all the Contributor and Core Contributor
>       grants. How we grant Contributor and Core Contributor status would
>       have to be considered, but that issue is also being discussed as
>       part of a potential OGB reorg.

I would rather have that option.


> Agree? Disagree? Any other options we should consider?

I agree with your proposal.
In the long run, the relationship to OS.c should be established
properly. I don't see how it's going to evolve right now.

Laurent
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