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

[Alan Burlison]

Brian Nitz wrote:

> For example, think of an outsider trying to create and integrate a set 
> of educational software into an educational OpenSource distribution.
> Is there an educational opensource community?  No.
> 
> How do I create an educational opensource community?  (I'd guess you 
> have to be a voting member and/or contributor to some other community???)
> 
> How do I become a voting member?  (It's somewhere in this thread, be 
> recognized as a core contributer to some community) but since this 
> proposal doesn't match any existing community, I'm still on the outside...)
> 
> O.K. Now I have my community, how do I create a project?  (It's 
> described in legalese in the constitution, but really, how do I create a 
> project?)
> 
> I understand that most technical people who really want their project 
> accepted in the OpenSource community will persist until some insider who 
> thinks they understand the process du jour sponsors the project and 
> pushes it through.  But this early in OpenSolaris's growth we really 
> afford to alienate any potential technical contributors who can just as 
> easily decide to not bother porting their solution to OpenSolaris and 
> instead port it to one of several hundred GNU/Linux distributions?

+1, I couldn't agree more.

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Alan Burlison
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