[advocacy-discuss] [ogb-discuss] The OpenSolaris Constitution: (Really Rough) v2.0

[Nicolas Dorfsman]

Le 15 oct. 08 à 20:35, James Carlson a écrit :

> Stephen Lau writes:
>> Additionally, letting groups decide their own ways of running the  
>> group
>> makes for better scale rather than the OGB trying to set standard
>> procedures to apply to both groups as large as ON, and groups as  
>> small
>> as our San Francisco OSUG.
>
> Where "running the group" means details such as who evaluates an RTI
> and how that's done (for ON), I agree.  That can and should be
> delegated and not specified by the OGB.
>
> When it comes to common standards, though, such as how votes (if any)
> are held, or how the various OGB-defined roles are used, I think there
> ought to be common practices across groups.  It's ok if that's not in
> the constitution itself, and is instead in some OGB-sponsored "how to
> do the group thing" document, but I don't think it ought to be
> delegated entirely.

James is completly right.

User groups have to be considered as important people in the new  
constitution.
OpenSource is made by contributors. Contribution could be in term of  
money, but in most case the "contributor" is somebody who is giving  
his time to improve/evangelize/etc.
Our members are giving time and money to go forward.  Do they have any  
chance to vote for OGB or any other decisions which modifies the  
OpenSolaris way ?
I'm sure you'd answer yes to this last question. It implies the  
constitution writes down some standards about how we run our groups,  
or at least how members of ug could become member/contributor/whatever  
of OpenSolaris government.
Without those standards, our own board may take decisions without any  
references...which could be interpreted as power abuse by our members.


> Delegating this completely means that new people approaching
> OpenSolaris can't count on a consistent set of processes or roles in
> each group (thus setting us up for personal conflicts), and it makes
> cooperation between groups (required for most non-trivial projects)
> much more difficult, and it means that we can't reasonably set up
> common infrastructure for all to use.  It seems to have no benefits
> whatsover; it's an unnecessary amount of rope.

Exactly !

Nicolas





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