[osol-mktg] Re: Sponsor Project Indiana

[Eric Boutilier]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Stephen Lau wrote:
> 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.

OK, that's three[1].

So when it comes to creating a new Community Group, the biggest delay is a
required 14-day discussion period[2]. So in the interest of starting that
timer as soon as possible, I hope to pull together and post/review a 1st
draft of the proposal here as soon as possible. And with that in mind, I'll
get there even faster if I have a tailwind. Which is to say, if anyone can
contribute bullets or paragraphs, especially wording around goals and
technical scope, any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

Here are the guidelines they provide for proposal writers:

     ".. Community members can propose new Community Groups by
     writing to the ogb-discuss list outlining items such as
     goals, technical scope, potential participants, leaders,
     and activities..."

--Eric

1. Keep those nominations coming though -- three is just the
    required minimum.

2. Please direct any comments about excessive beuracracy to
    opensolaris-discuss :)