[ogb-discuss] Advocacy Community Proposal

[Jim Grisanzio]

To the OGB:

For about a month, the User Group Community and the Marketing Community 
have had an active conversation about merging the two communities and 
moving the individual user groups to projects endorsed by the new 
community. The purpose for these moves is to help in the community 
consolidation effort, to focus our global outreach efforts, to remove 
areas of redundancy, and to raise the profiles of user groups.

Communities to be merged:

Marketing Community: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/marketing/
UG Community: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/

Consensus has been reached and the conversation threads are here:

Advocates (Advocacy) Community Group: 4/26/07
http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=29345&tstart=0

Community Consolidation -- Marketing & UGs: 4/3/07
http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=27548&tstart=0
http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=27547&tstart=0

Action Requested: As a result of this conversation, we'd like OGB 
approval to move forward.

Advocacy Community Group

The Advocacy Community Group exists to help people around the world get 
involved in the OpenSolaris Community. We welcome participation from 
people of all languages and cultures and people with all levels of 
technical and non-technical skills. Everyone has something to contribute.

In here you will find independent user groups listed by language and 
geography, news, articles, profiles, blogs, technical and non-technical 
presentations, videos and podcasts, events and conferences, metrics and 
graphics, swag, badges, buttons, and a variety of promotional projects.

Our defining guidelines and values are simple: we embrace the 
OpenSolaris Principles http://opensolaris.org/os/about/ and we are a 
community group in good standing under the OpenSolaris Constitution 
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/governance/

Join us and participate in the OpenSolaris Community ...

Advocacy Community Leaders: Contributors and Core Contributors from the 
Marketing and UG Communities submitted for the first OpenSolaris 
election. We need to start with this pool of names initially since we 
are merging two existing communities.

Initial Advocacy Community Facilitator: Jim Grisanzio (jimgris)

Implementation Sequence:

* 5/1/07: Brief the OGB about merger plan and get final approval.
* Merge Marketing and UG Community lists for contributors and core
   contributors and maintain as one list.
* Write final community mission statement.
* Create a new community -- Advocacy Community -- and migrate content.
* Create a new list -- advocacy at opensolaris.org -- and merge names.
* Start migrating existing user groups to projects and begin creating
   new user groups under a new process based on the OGB's project
   creation guidelines and the listing of UGs by language and geo.
* Endorse all user group projects.
* Establish URL re-directs for migrated content.
* Migrate Marketing & UG Community content to the Advocacy community.
* Migrate Newsletter content out of the Content Project:
   http://opensolaris.org/os/project/content/newsletter/
* Link to and re-activate Articles: http://opensolaris.org/os/articles/
* Delete old Marketing & UG communities and lists.


Jim
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Jim Grisanzio, Community Manager, OpenSolaris
http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris