[advocacy-discuss] [osug-leaders] Save the Dates: Next OSUG Leaders Concall

[Jim Grisanzio]

Teresa.Giacomini at Sun.COM wrote:
> Cool.  So, if all the OSUG leaders are considered Core Contributors to 
> Advocacy, 

 From a /governance/ perspective, that may or may not be technically 
true, but it really doesn`t matter in this discussion. I shouldn`t have 
used those governance terms since they just confuse things all the time. 
If people want to be Core Contributors under the OpenSolaris 
Constitution (which only means they get to vote in elections if they are 
interested in that sort of thing), then they can go read the governance 
documents at the OGB`s site and figure all that out. Also, one`s 
governance status is irrelevant to how we are going to run the Advocacy 
web space (just as it is now, actually), and how we build community 
globally.

This is what will happen -- when we move to XWiki, the user roles in 
Advocacy (and in all Community Groups) will be the following: Leader, 
Affiliate, and Participant. Leaders will have XWiki edit/admin 
privileges, and Affiliates will have XWiki edit privileges. 
Incidentally, the roles in User Groups will be the same, whereas 
Projects will be slightly different.

> then we can create a place within Advocacy where they can put 
> presentation materials etc and all the OSUG leaders will be able to 
> see them, and grab them.  Am I right?  

Yes. I think the bias should be to have a /very large/ number of people 
in Advocacy with the ability to edit Advocacy pages. That only makes 
sense. We`ll have a wiki, after all. Bottom line: if you can edit your 
OSUG space, you ought to be able to edit the Advocacy pages as well.

> I sure hope so.  We've been waiting for XWiki to come before making 
> changes to the OSUG pages...the global ones, not the individual ones.

You can make changes now and those changes will be migrated to XWiki on 
hub. In fact, I have been cleaning up quite a bit recently. I trimmed 
the content on the main pages significantly, making things much shorter 
and removing the governance stuff so people don`t have to read all that 
bureaucracy. I deleted a bunch of stuff and updated the HTML in many 
pages so they migrate cleanly. There are many more outdated and broken 
pages that should be deleted as well, but I don`t know who owns them. 
Eventually I am just going to delete them. We need to clean things up so 
when we invite all the new site editors to Advocacy on XWiki we will 
have some space for them to post new content.

Jim
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