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

[Alan Burlison]

Glynn Foster wrote:

>> That's not entirely what I was asking, I was asking about control of 
>> the site, not authorship of the content.
> 
> I guess control is going to be the group of people who do it first - 
> given that the domain name is owned by Sun, I'd probably hedge my bets 
> there and some project group responsible for it. Nothing stopping some 
> other group from registering their own domain and doing it though.

Much of the angst we've witnessed in the opensolaris community over the 
last year has been because different segments of the community had 
differing expectations and interpretations of various community-related 
events and structures.  So that we don't end up in a similar situation 
again, I think it is vital that it is made crystal clear from the very 
start how the new proposed .com domain would be controlled - for 
example, what is its relationship with the OGB, with the website 
editorial board and so on.

There's a complete range of possibilities, from total community control 
through to total Sun control.  I can see benefits of both ends of the 
range of possibilities, as well as the various intermediate stages.  I'm 
not attempting to suggest one option or another, all I am suggesting is 
that it be made clear from the outset what the chosen configuration is, 
so that we set expectations appropriately and avoid any 
misunderstandings further down the line.

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Alan Burlison
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