[ug-discuss] UG Contributors for OpenSolaris Membership

[Kjell Högström]

Jim,

for the Swedish User group

core, kjelle, started and runs SWOSUG
core, tunla, runs SWOSUG

/Kjell

Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> The writers of the OpenSolaris governance are now creating the initial 
> membership of the OpenSolaris community. You can see these conversations 
> and documents here:
> 
> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=17
> http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php?title=OpenSolaris_Governance_Draft_03
> 
> Each community in OpenSolaris is being asked to submit a list of its 
> contributors. See email below from Stephen Hahn for more on this.
> 
> Next week, I'd like to submit a list of names for contributor and core 
> contributor. Maybe we should consider starting with the user group 
> community leaders list and expand/delete as needed: 
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/leaders/
> 
> We need to submit our names in this format:
> 
> contributor type, OpenSolaris ID, justification
> 
>   contributor sophyi Sophi participates in list conversations.
>   core jackt Jack started and runs the xx user group.
> 
> Would you like to get an email thread started on this? Our deadline for 
> submission is next Wednesday the 29th.
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> 
> Stephen Hahn wrote:
>>    Work on the governance documents for the OpenSolaris Community has
>>    closed on a draft that is nearly ready for ratification:
>>     
>> http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php?title=OpenSolaris_Governance_Draft_03 
>>
>>
>>    This draft has garnered legal approval and is moving towards
>>    ratification by Sun Microsystems, prior to seeking community-wide
>>    ratification.
>>
>>    As I wrote in June,
>>
>>     A key aspect of all the drafts is that the Communities are
>>     expected to identify their Contributors and Core Contributors.
>>     These lists will then be used to generate rolls of eligible
>>     Voting Members for the election of new Governing Board members,
>>     and to ratify the initial version of the Constitution.
>>
>>    I've included Section 3.3, Roles, and Sections 7.7 - 7.8,
>>    "Contributors" and "Core Contributors" from the draft Constitution
>>    below; you may also wish to skim Section 8, which describes how the
>>    distinctions apply to Community Group consensus.
>>
> .....
>> ----
>>
>>    3.3. Roles. Various terms are used to describe the people who are 
>> involved
>>    in the OpenSolaris Community efforts, based on their recognized
>>    contributions, length of commitment, and current activity. The 
>> OpenSolaris
>>    Community recognizes four levels of involvement by registered persons:
>>
>>     1. Participant. Any registered person who participates in the 
>> OpenSolaris
>>        Community, either through general discussion areas or within 
>> one or
>>        more Community Group efforts, shall be termed an OpenSolaris
>>        Participant.
>>     2. Contributor. A participant who has been acknowledged by one or 
>> more
>>        Community Groups as having substantively contributed toward
>>        accomplishing the tasks of that Community Group, or by the OGB for
>>        at-large contributions, shall be termed an OpenSolaris 
>> Contributor.
>>        Such designation is permanent and persists regardless of the 
>> person's
>>        current level of activity or status within the Community. A
>>        Contributor may request that their status not be published or
>>        published only in the form of a pseudonym that is unique within 
>> the
>>        Community.
>>     3. Core Contributor. A Contributor who is an active and sustained
>>        contributor to any Community Group and accepts designation as 
>> such by
>>        said Group shall be termed a Core Contributor for said Group and
>>        granted the status of Member for the OpenSolaris Community as a 
>> whole.
>>     4. Emeritus Contributor. A former Core Contributor whose prior 
>> grants of
>>        Core Contributor status have all expired, or who has voluntarily
>>        resigned from Core Contributor status by declining all grants, is
>>        termed an Emeritus Contributor. Emeritus Contributor is a 
>> designation
>>        of respect for Core Contributors who have moved on to activities
>>        outside the OpenSolaris Community or who are temporarily unable to
>>        perform the duties of a Member. An Emeritus Contributor can 
>> return to
>>        Core Contributor status by acquiring and accepting new 
>> designations of
>>        Core Contributor status.
>>
>> ----
>>
>>    7.7. Contributors. The Contributors of a Community Group shall include
>>    every person who has been designated by the Core Contributors of that
>>    Group to have contributed substantively to that Group's efforts, 
>> including
>>    (but not limited to) every person who has contributed intellectual
>>    property to the OpenSolaris Community as a result of those efforts.
>>
>>    7.8. Core Contributors. The initial Core Contributors of a 
>> Community Group
>>    shall be determined by the OGB when the Community Group is initiated;
>>    thereafter, the Core Contributors shall consist of those 
>> Participants that
>>    have accepted the Group's designation as a Core Contributor for that
>>    Group. Designation as a Core Contributor requires nomination of a
>>    Participant by an existing Core Contributor, followed by a Group 
>> decision
>>    by consensus vote to approve that designation, and finally 
>> acceptance of
>>    the designation by the Participant. Each such designation shall 
>> hold for a
>>    period of two (2) years, or until that Core Contributor's earlier
>>    resignation, removal, or death. In addition, each designation of Core
>>    Contributor status results in a grant of Member status for the 
>> OpenSolaris
>>    Community as a whole, with a duration of two (2) years from the 
>> date of
>>    said grant, as described in sections 4.2 and 4.3 above. A Core 
>> Contributor
>>    may be removed by consensus vote of the other Core Contributors or by
>>    expulsion from the OpenSolaris Community.
> 
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