[ogb-discuss] Advocacy Community Proposal

[Jim Grisanzio]

Ben Rockwood wrote:
> It may be too early to propose this, but I'd like to propose that the 
> Immigrants Community be consolidated into an Advocacy Community Project 
> should this proposal be approved by the OGB.  This new community 
> consolidation provides a solid home for a number of communities that are 
> currently "loose threads" and can benefit from added structure.  As a 
> leader of both OS Marketing and OS Immigrants I fully endorse the 
> proposal before the OGB.
> 
> benr.



Ben ... I don't have a problem with your suggestion at all, but I think 
the UG and Marketing lists should have a say as well. I can't imagine it 
would be a problem. Let me send a quick note.

Jim
-- 
Jim Grisanzio, Sr. Program Manager, OpenSolaris Engineering
http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris









> Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>>
>>