[osol-mktg] Community Consolidation -- Marketing & UGs

[Bruno F. Souza]

On 09/04/2007, at 00:29, Jim Grisanzio wrote:

>
> Bruno F. Souza wrote On 04/06/07 23:39,:
>
>> - each JUG can request a project on java.net, that will go  
>> "under"  the JUGs Community. The project hosts the JUG mailing  
>> lists, files,  etc. Some JUGs even have _software_ projects, that  
>> are hosted as sub- projects of their JUG. One important thing is  
>> that in java.net  project requests are not a "community wide"  
>> thing. So, JUGs request  projects for the JGs Community, and that  
>> gets approved by JUG  Community Leaders, that are elected by the  
>> JUG Leaders. So, when a  JUG request a project, it can be approved  
>> right away (it is actually  put under the incubator, and when JUGs  
>> comply with a few  requirements, like creating a web page, etc  
>> they are "graduated" to  become a project under the JUGs  
>> Community). It does not need to go  trough any "community wide"  
>> approval or vote.
>
>
> Question: After the request for a new JUG is made to the JUG  
> Community and then approved, how is the infrastructure set up? Is  
> that a manual process to create the page/list/etc or is it  
> automated via the site software?
>

Well, java.net runs on Collabnet software. So, when someone comes to  
the site, and request a project, the project is created and then put  
on a approval list. The project is already up and running by that  
time, but can only be accessed by the project owner (the person that  
requested it). Each community in java.net have the responsibility to  
approve/reject a project, and each community have their own rules for  
that (for example, the Games community requires a vote and that the  
project is supported by at lest 2 other already existing projects.  
The JUGs Community on the other hand, only requires that the request  
is really for a JUG, not for an open source project for example).  
Once approved, the project is then visible to anyone, and open to  
others to join it.

So, the shoer answer to your question is: it is automated.

Now, the one thing that is kind of manual is the project listing on  
the site: someone at java.net manually updates a database with all  
projects, that feeds both the java.net full project listing, as well  
as each community's project listing.

Bruno.

> Jim
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Bruno.
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