[cab-discuss] CAB/OGB website content needs to be updated

[Al Hopper]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, John Plocher wrote:

> It is amazingly difficult to find up to date info about the current state
> of the OGB and its governance on the OpenSolaris homepage.
>
> The page for Governance/CAB doesn't /appear/ to have been updated in a year
> (the last weekly minutes/notes on meetings are from before the launch in 2005,
> the wording on the page is all about the old CAB and not the OGB, the
> left navbar has nothing more recent on it than the 1st CAB meeting...)
>
> If you get past this feeling that you are on a stale page and click on
> the OpenSolaris Constitution link, you find links to drafts, with no
> context, timelines or commentary - nothing to indicate what is happening.
>
> How would a random OpenSolaris community member find out that elections
> are being planned for sometime in the next month and that nominations
> are being accepted for a new OGB?  Where would they find the minutes from
> past OGB/CAB meetings?  What about formal votes/position papers and the
> like?
>
> It is not just /Sun/ that seems to prefer to do things in the dark :-)

Agreed - we need to do much better.

Al Hopper  Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX.  al at logical-approach.com
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