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

[Jim Grisanzio]

Glynn Foster wrote:
>
> I'd certainly advocate we would only move the groups that wanted to be moved. 
> For example, groups like advocacy and local users groups may be better placed 
> over at .com. I'd agree a thorough analysis of the content on .org would need to 
> be done in terms of figuring out what migration plan, if any, needed to be done.
hey ...

Generally, I support any way to provide a better platform for 
OpenSolaris user groups to grow and diversify. That's really my main 
focus in Advocacy, after all, so if the UGs get a better deal out of it 
that's cool. I think the recent migration of UGs to projects on .org has 
worked out very well as an interim solution since we never had any plan 
to support UGs on .org initially (they were always part of the 
"Community/Project" structure even though they don't necessarily fit 
either). We should try to offer more support to UGs (resources, wiki 
site functionality, higher profile, etc) -- which, I assume, .com will 
provide.

But UGs are not exclusively users. They are a mix of users and 
developers, and they number about 5K people at this point. Also, 
although many UGs may want to move, I can see some wanting to stay. In 
that case, we'd have UGs living in two different locations (.com and 
.org) with presumably two different offerings. That's not the end of the 
world, of course, but it can be confusing. Another issue to consider is 
governance. If the UGs move to .com, how would we enable those people 
who have earned their Membership in OpenSolaris via Advocacy (since 
Advocacy sponsors the UGs) to keep their voice in governance?

Jim
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