[opensolaris-summit] My comments (very subjective) on proposed Summit topics

[Philip Brown]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 03:34:23PM -0700, Darren Reed wrote:
> 
> See:
> http://blogs.sun.com/avalon/entry/manufacturing_a_community
> 

interesting blog.


I'd say one core problem in there, is due to sun
marketspeak misusing the term "community".
Someone apparently got all caught up in
 "Open Source Development is 'community based'! We've Got To Have
 Comunit(ies) !!!"

Seems like the marketdroids have achieved way too much power inside sun
lately, as evidenced by stupidity like renaming SUNW to "JAVA".


Maybe the entities currently described under
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/communities/

should have a name other than "community", and then have a more
hierarchical organization to them.

There's just too many of them at the top level right now.

What might be better,could be an approach like the old USENET style
approach, where you first start with the HIGH level

comp.os.opsol

Split it up into

comp.os.opsol.kernel
comp.os.opsol.install
comp.os.opsol.graphics
comp.os.opsol.blah

and then split up into finer grained pieces, ONLY WHEN participants of a
particular "leaf" node, vote and agree that the leaf should now become a node with
child leaves.

(and usually, there were rules about that sort of thing, such as,
  the vote has to continue for X amount of time, so as to avoid making a
  split about something that is going to die out in 1 month anyway)


getting a bit off-topic for this list now, I suppose.