[osol-mktg] Re: [ug-discuss] Community Consolidation -- Marketing & UGs

[Jim Grisanzio]

Alan Coopersmith wrote On 04/26/07 05:09,:
> Alan DuBoff wrote:
> 
>> Is this for community people, even if we're from a defunct community?
>>
>> Evidentally I'm involved with a community that failed to respond to 
>> repeated inquiries to represent opensolaris, so we're now consider 
>> defunct. I'm unclear if our input is even needed.
> 
> 
> The Device Driver community is not part of the merger under discussion,
> so why does that matter?
> 
>> I'm not sure if my user group community is defunct or not, I didn't 
>> responsd to any repeated inquiries there either, so it must be...:-/
> 
> 
> The User Group community not only responded, it was a bit over-represented,
> naming 88 Core Contributors, almost 1/3rd of the the total voting base for
> the initial elections - Marketing named 6 Core Contributors, so neither one
> would be considered defunct, though if you wanted to hold a vote of all
> these people, I expect you'd have a hard time getting a majority of them
> to even cast ballots.
> 



I know, we offered a lot of names, but there was very little 
participation in the actual voting. I probably should have done a better 
job at promoting the final step. I felt a bit uncomfortable about that 
since I was also running for OGB at the time. Oh, well, lessons learned. 
Sorry about that ...

Jim
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