[advocacy-discuss] OSUG Proposal: Tokyo OpenSolaris User Group

[Jim Grisanzio]

Roman Strobl wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> apologies for my ignorance, but I do not understand why a +1 vote is 
> needed for someone to establish a user group. 
hey ...

The voting is not to establish a UG, per say. It's to ask the Advocacy 
Community for a Project space and a mailing list. The decision to 
actually form the group is a local one, and people can go to Google or 
Yahoo and get a list and/or host their own site, etc. But we have a 
governance system on OpenSolaris where Communities sponsor/endorse 
Projects in a hierarchal relationship. And since user groups are really 
Projects on our site and live inside the Advocacy Community, they have 
to ask for the infrastructure and the community gets a say. We realized 
that the bar was way too high for user groups, but we didn't really have 
much choice, so as a compromise we just made the proposal process very 
simple and only required one +1 vote. Real development projects 
generally require more +1 votes, according to the Constitution. But 
really, the Communities can specify what they want at this point. We 
discussed this at length in Advocacy last year when we 
updated/simplified our own processes.

Governance
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/governance/

User Group Process Inside Advocacy
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/usergroups/ug-leaders/

User Groups
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/usergroups/


Jim
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