[advocacy-discuss] [website-discuss] Thoughts on an opensolaris.com

[Sean Sprague]

Peter,

>  - We're already spread across multiple locations; adding another one
> is going to dilute things further and add more confusion.
>   

Agreed, but there are always ways to mask dilution/confusion... Maybe we 
should have a single top level such as www.opensolarisportal.com (or 
even www.solarisportal.com) which has a simple homepage giving the 
viewer the option of going to whichever "flavour" of OpenSolaris they 
are interested in; whether it be building from source (the true 
OpenSolaris), Indiana (the Sun official OpenSolaris version), the other 
"flavours" of distro based on OpenSolaris, or whatever else comes along.

>  - I think the whole emphasis is wrong. Surely it should be solaris.com?
>   

It can't be. Sun already owns this, and there is still a marked 
difference between OpenSolaris and Solaris at the moment; ie. the latter 
is a commercial product, the former not. Plus you shouldn't really 
associate OpenSolaris with a .com suffix

>  - The last 4 years has convinced me that what really adds value is to
> bring all the members of the community together, so segmenting
> different classes of members into little ghettos is a negative step
>   

I like the concept of "OpenSolariz n the Hood" ;-) (OK, cheap ghetto 
joke - apols). Certainly segregation is negative de facto, but again, if 
it is "hidden" well enough...

>  - Many members will be on both, doubling the effort required to be
> involved.
>
> We should be combining, not fragmenting.
>   

Yup; but often easier said than done.


Regards... Sean.