[osol-mktg] Re: Sponsor Project Indiana

[Eric Boutilier]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
>
>> I'm afraid I don't agree on either count.
>>
>> This is an engineering project. It is not Marketing or Advocacy. It
>> should be in a place where co-development engineers will participate.
>> That is not here.
>>
>> Secondly, the name. If there is exactly one distribution developed
>> within the OpenSolaris community, it will be called "the OpenSolaris
>> distribution" whatever artificial attempts are made to name it
>> something else.
>
> You are saying that the other OpenSolaris based distributions
> are created outside the OpenSolaris community?  Is this
> by virtue of them having their own websites and distribution
> mechanisms?
>
> Was the OpenSolaris website even equiped to handle such a download
> and was that perhaps the reason that those other distributions
> went elsewhere?

Casper's right. Nexenta, BeleniX and other existing distros
are, by all rights and intentions, projects of and by the
OpenSolaris community. The Nexenta project leadership sees it
that way too:
     http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-March/026547.html

Eric