[advocacy-discuss] re-org to affect user groups

[Jim Grisanzio]

hey ... the OGB has started a discussion on ogb-discuss about a 
potential reorganization of the OpenSolaris community. This grew out of 
the re-org started last year with the previous OGB and also discussions 
on various lists and at the OpenSolaris Summit in California last week. 
Check in on ogb-discuss (I'm sure multiple threads will grow out of this 
but the opening mail is this: 
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2008-May/005572.html). 
I bring this up here because user groups will certainly come up in these 
discussions. My view is that I'd like to see the user groups out from 
the CG structure to become a top level collective group along with 
Projects, CGs, SIGs, Consolidations or whatever we come up with. I'm not 
sure where this will lead, actually, and we may end up doing nothing or 
just trying to clean up the existing structure (which would be a step in 
the right direction). You can never tell with OpenSolaris. :) The UGs 
stand to benefit from this conversation, though. The time to express 
your opinion is now ...

Jim

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