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

[Alan Burlison]

Glynn Foster 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.

OK, so it's not the same physical content that is on opensolaris.org at 
present, If I understand you correctly, .com will contain new content 
that covers much of the same material as .org, but from a user 
perspective.  That's what was confusing me - it sounded like you meant 
the existing page content on .org would be moving.

>> 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.

That may or may not be possible, depending on the exact nature of the 
.com site.  Data from user registrations on .org are governed by a 
privacy agreement that restricts the uses that we can make of the 
registration data.

>> 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.

That's not entirely what I was asking, I was asking about control of the 
site, not authorship of the content.

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Alan Burlison
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