[ogb-discuss] Advocacy Community Proposal

[Stephen Hahn]

* Glynn Foster <Glynn.Foster at sun.com> [2007-05-21 21:29]:
> 
> 
> Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
> > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:19:37AM -0700, Stephen Hahn wrote:
> > 
> >>   I thought I would chime in to agree with Ben's proposal.  A home for
> >>   immigrants is a great idea still, but a Community Group isn't the
> >>   right structure to hold it.  A Project under Advocacy would be great.
> > 
> > Given the latest thinking that Jim and I expressed[0], what would be
> > this project's goal?  Or, more directly, how would the team know when
> > it's done?  If it's an ongoing effort, perhaps it should be
> > represented as an Advocacy committee instead.
> > 
> > [0] http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2007-May/000447.html
> >     http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2007-May/000508.html
> 
> I don't like the idea of an Advocacy committee - I would imagine committees are
> relatively small in size, and focused on a particular issue. Advocacy seems to
> large to fit that.
> 
> I don't feel like there are any downsides in the proposal - if there are, I
> don't think there would be massive upheaval required to change it as our
> community process evolves.

  (Keith's point, I think, is that the current Immigrants CG is not
  suitable as a Project, under the terms he and Jim were working
  towards.  Advocacy is still a CG.)

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