[osol-mktg] Re: Sponsor Project Indiana

[Stephen Lau]

Simon Phipps wrote:
> 
> On Jun 6, 2007, at 16:50, Eric Boutilier wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Stephen Lau wrote:
>>> Simon Phipps wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Agreed.
>>
>> Me too.
>>
>>> Though, for the time being, since the "Distributions" community 
>>> doesn't exist
>>
>> I'd be very willing to help start one.
>>
>> Here are the key requirements per the main Community page:
>>
>>     ... Proposals need to list at least 3 current Core Contributors 
>> who are
>>     nominating the community, at least 3 participants who will become the
>>     initial Core Contributors of the new community, and one person who 
>> will
>>     serve as the community's Facilitator...
>>
>> I'm a Core Contributor, and we probably have several others on
>> this discussion who are as well...
> 
> I would support that proposal (I am a core contributor).

I'll nominate as well.

-steve

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