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

[Michal Bielicki]

Glynn Foster wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Alan Burlison wrote:
>   
>> If the .com site contains largely the same content as the current .org 
>> site, what are the benefits of setting up a separate .com site?
>>     
>
> Presented in a very different form. For example, most of the current project 
> sites focus on the technology from an engineering perspective, rather than the 
> benefits from an end user perspective.
>
> The opportunity we have is to keep one project on opensolaris.org, focus on the 
> technical merits of it, and how one may contribute to the project, and there 
> could be a mirror link on opensolaris.org, talking about the merits of how much 
> easier it makes your day to day life running it.
>
>   
>> If all the .org content is moving to the .com site, what will be left on 
>> the .org site?  If the .org content isn't moving, what will be on the 
>> .com site?
>>     
>
> The .org site would still be responsible for hosting various projects, technical 
> discussion lists, and source code gates (including the associated governance). 
> Nothing changes there. Everything else moves over to .com.
>
>   
>> What happens to the nearly 100,000 registered users on the .org site?
>>     
>
> Exactly what happens to them currently? Nothing. We ideally used a shared user 
> database.
>
>   
>> Who will be responsible for providing the infrastructure for the .com site?
>>     
>
> I don't know, but Sun have a vested interest in seeing it happen, so I imagine 
> it would be a funded project to create it.
>
>   
>> Who will be responsible for deciding what content goes on the .com site?
>>     
>
> That's entirely what this discussion is for, so that we can find out what the 
> interest level is like, and whether it's likely to fly as a proposal. Hopefully 
> those with an interest in providing a more focused user set of content will step 
> up to the plate and contribute.
>   
Where do I sign ?
>
> Glynn
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