[advocacy-discuss] Advocacy Facilitator Position Open

[Rich Reynolds]

Jim, et.al. -

I wold love to do this, but I dont meet the base level requirement "the 
Facilitator is a Core Contributor",

I spent 20 years as a Sun/Solaris Advocate as a pre-sales Engineer in 
the field, as a post-sales Architect in SunPS, and even a stint in the 
Answer Center as a favor to an old friend who was co-managing the 
OS/Install/Boot teams...  Much of this work was spent coordinating 
geographically diverse teams and providing the "Face to the Customer". I 
have been communicating the vision to all levels of folks in Sun's 
customer base, from CIO's and CTO's to Development and Data Center 
Managers to Sys Admins and Software Engineers, for a LONG time.

My first encounter with Sun OS as a customer was in the SunOS 3.2 on 
M68000 (Sun 2/140) and by the time I joined Sun('89) we were all the way 
to 3.5 and 68010 based kit. I left Sun in 2008, and am now mostly out of 
the hardware industry - designing yachts and acting as CIO/CTO for a 
small Aerospace Specialty Engineering contract house.

thanx,

rich

Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> Jim Grisanzio wrote:
>> hey ...
>>
>> I've been Advocacy Facilitator for many years now. Anyone interested 
>> in taking over the roll?
> 
> I am getting some responses off list about what is involved in being 
> Advocacy Facilitator. Basically, the Facilitator is a Core Contributor 
> who is the main communications link between the Advocacy Community Group 
> and the OGB. That`s the most important thing, and it`s specified in the 
> Constitution.
> 
> So you`d maintain the Advocacy governance records -- Contributor and 
> Core Contributor status, basically, which is taken care of automatically 
> in the database but it needs someone to follow up on who requested what 
> status and if things were voted on properly and sent to the OGB for 
> processing, etc. You`d facilitate governance discussions related to 
> Advocacy, too (elections). You`d update web pages (and there is a lot of 
> that work that needs doing here). Advocacy endorses a few projects and 
> over 120 OSUG projects, so you`d have to be on all those lists so you 
> can properly communicate with everyone. UGs and projects go dormant from 
> time to time, so there is a lot of work to help find new leaders and 
> maintain the leaders grid. Updates to the news page are badly needed, too.
> 
> Regarding new projects: I have been setting up UG projects here but the 
> proper place for that is project-setup, so you`ll have to interact with 
> people who are proposing projects and UGs and manage the threads and 
> then when final voting is done send the approved request in the right 
> format to project-setup. I currently staff project-setup for the 
> creation of all projects on the site, and I will continue to do this.
> 
> Another issue that comes up from time to time is when Sun sponsors 
> programs to distribute items to the community -- OSUG kits, basically. 
> There is actually a lot of communications work to implement these 
> programs, and the Facilitator can help a great deal (since you will know 
> everyone around the place).
> 
> Advocacy is home to about 5,000 people, so it`s potentially a pretty big 
> deal if someone wants to take it and run with it. You have to be serious 
> and see it as an opportunity, though. I`ve certainly taken it as far as 
> I can go given my circumstances and goals and plans, so it`s time for 
> someone new. Now, there is no process for making a transition like this, 
> so if multiple people are interested we`d have to figure out a simple 
> and fair process to manage that so we can choose.
> 
> One last thing: when we start migrating to the new site this summer, 
> there will be a lot of issues to consider for Advocacy since it has so 
> any spaces on the site (primarily OSUGs), so you`ll have to like 
> communicating. :)  Facilitation = Communication.
> 
> That`s all I can think of at the moment. More here:
> 
> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/facilitation/
> http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/entry/the_return_of_the_opensolaris
> 
> Jim
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