[osol-mktg] Sponsor Project Indiana

[Simon Phipps]

On Jun 6, 2007, at 16:14, Stephen Lau wrote:

> Simon Phipps 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.
>
> But isn't part of Indiana about addressing the perceived needs of  
> non-Solaris users?  Doesn't that involve marketing and advocacy?

In which case many other aspects of OpenSolaris belong here. I'd  
suggest though that a "Distributions" community is a more appropriate  
venue.

>
>> 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.
>
> But there isn't exactly one distribution... we have 5 that I count  
> (not including Indiana).  Indiana will only be called "the  
> OpenSolaris distribution" if people insist on it.  That's what I'm  
> opposed to.

Right now there exactly zero distributions developed withing the  
community - that's not my words, that (as Laurent points out  
elsewhere) is how we describe ourselves on http://www.opensolaris.org/ 
os/about/ :
> The main difference between the OpenSolaris project and the Solaris  
> Operating System is that the OpenSolaris project does not provide  
> an end-user product or complete distribution.

What multiple people have suggested is it's time to change that as it  
is confusing for newcomers. I completely support that change.

S.