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

[Simon Phipps]

On Mar 16, 2008, at 13:39, Alan Burlison wrote:

> The need for improvements to the current opensolaris.org website is
> already accepted. The need for segmenting the community is open to
> discussion, and I think that discussion needs to take place first  
> before
> deciding the consequences of any such split on the web infrastructure.

OK, so (at the risk of me commenting polarising the usual suspects!)  
let's go to that place. Given the enormity of the OpenSolaris project,  
I think it would be very smart indeed to segment the online community  
presence into a "co-creation" grouping whose common purpose is to  
develop the code from which distro builders create Solaris,  
OpenSolaris and other distros, and an "adopter" grouping whose purpose  
is to deploy and use the resulting distros and software appliances.  
I'd also want the distro builders to be welcome to do their work as  
part of the "co-creator" grouping is they wish, although to date most  
have worked elsewhere.

I'd agree with you that all the piece-parts are available; I would  
also agree with Glynn that they are not currently assembled so that  
those two very distinct groups are able to go about their lives to  
best effect.  So I like the general idea Glynn is proposing because it  
makes that happen, and I think his approach (of starting with the  
distinction between co-creators and adopters and working outwards) is  
the right one.

S.