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

[Darren Reed]

Jim Grisanzio wrote:

>Darren Reed wrote:
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>>The OGB doesn't appear to me to be actually doing anything. It
>>appears more more like an arbitration council that also sanctions
>>community decisions about which communities to create and how to
>>make a contributor/core contributor.  "So what".  In this guise
>>it feels more like a rubber stamp operation than anything meaningful.
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>There was a lot of discussion about this when the initial OGB was 
>writing the Constitution. I think the intent was to distribute 
>leadership and decision making power among the communities and projects 
>and not centralize it in the OGB. I agree with that model because it 
>offers significant incentive and opportunity for participation across 
>the entire community. That one element is what makes the OpenSolaris 
>Constitution so meaningful.
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>The OGB's job was to create and maintain the structure in which a 
>community could grow. They did that. And they did that pretty well, 
>actually. The OGB /represents/ the community, but it doesn't /run/ the 
>community. Operations are distributed by design. The community runs 
>itself via individual community groups and projects. When there are 
>problems or meta issues to consider, the OGB has the authority to step 
>in and mediate and resolve disputes. That seems to be a perfectly 
>reasonable system to me. That's my impression of things, anyway.
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All of which means that if the way OpenSolaris has been
constructed is faulty then there's no way to fix it because
all that the communities can do is look after themselves,
not OpenSolaris as a whole.

http://blogs.sun.com/avalon/entry/manufacturing_a_community

Darren