[immigrants-discuss] Re: Welcome one and all!

[Ben Rockwood]

Stefan Parvu wrote:

>Actually I kind of don't like the name (immigrants) ... Are you offering Solaris Green Cards too ?
>A better name would have been Migration.
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This points was made when the proposal was presented several months 
ago.  Please review that discussion on OS-Discuss for the full scoop.

Beyond that, as stated in the announcements, "migration" has a certain 
conentation associated with it that we don't want.  Frankly, neither 
name is quite right imho, but when I was pressed for something better I 
came up blank.  We're trying to not only provide a new community but 
also to set a diffrent tone for that community and boring old 
"migration" doesn't fit it.  In particular, migration implies formal 
commitment, your moving from one thing to another.  Immigrant, on the 
other hand, implies someone starting down a path, checking it out as 
they go, but free to come or go as they please.  This group isn't just 
for people moving from RHEL to Solaris, is also for people running 
Gentoo who want to check out OpenSolaris to see what the buzz is about, 
or FreeBSD users to see what OpenSolaris can offer, etc, etc.

As for green cards... I'm sure Sara could arrange something for us.  
Thats a pretty good idea actually.  I'll look into it! :)

benr.