[ogb-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

[Jim Grisanzio]

Jim Grisanzio wrote:

> Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 10:09:38AM +1200, Glynn Foster wrote:
> 
> 
>>> How do we get this moving forward?
>>
>>
>>
>> Find a Group (preferably a relevant one) that wants to create your
>> mailing list.  That's really all there is to it.  Creating new mail
>> aliases like distro-discuss that squat on the namespace is naughty,
>> though; the name should be a part of the sponsoring Group's namespace.
> 
> 
> 
> Glynn ...
> 
> Can't the Marketing Community Group just sponsor Indy so we can get a 
> project space and list set up?
> 
> Indy has been proposed by people who work in Sun marketing and who are 
> also part of the Marketing Community Group on OpenSolaris. It seems to 
> me that if Indy has the long term goal of "increasing the userbase and 
> growing mindshare in the volume market by providing easy access to the 
> technology created within the OpenSolaris community" than the Marketing 
> CG should just sponsor this project ASAP. Heck, the User Group Community 
> ought to do the same. And if the OGB approves the Advocacy Community 
> proposal, then Advocacy will be the sponsoring CG. The (potential) 
> Advocacy CG will range from non-technical issues and projects to 
> technical projects, and if Indy is supposed to help grow the OpenSolaris 
> user and developer community around the world then the 50 or so user 
> groups ought to participate as well.
> 
> Jim


fyi: I started a thread on ug-discuss and opensolaris-mktg to see if 
either of those two Community Groups would support sponsoring the Indy 
project. There is plenty of support:

http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=32300&tstart=0

Jim
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