[osol-mktg] Re: [ug-discuss] Community Consolidation -- Marketing & UGs

[Alan DuBoff]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> Alan DuBoff wrote:
>> Is this for community people, even if we're from a defunct community?
>> 
>> Evidentally I'm involved with a community that failed to respond to 
>> repeated inquiries to represent opensolaris, so we're now consider defunct. 
>> I'm unclear if our input is even needed.
>
> The Device Driver community is not part of the merger under discussion,
> so why does that matter?

I would think that SVOSUG was though.

>> I'm not sure if my user group community is defunct or not, I didn't 
>> responsd to any repeated inquiries there either, so it must be...:-/
>
> The User Group community not only responded, it was a bit over-represented,
> naming 88 Core Contributors, almost 1/3rd of the the total voting base for
> the initial elections - Marketing named 6 Core Contributors, so neither one
> would be considered defunct, though if you wanted to hold a vote of all
> these people, I expect you'd have a hard time getting a majority of them
> to even cast ballots.

Sure, because groups like SVOSUG have 2 people named, where FROSUG has 
more than a dozen. I guess they had a lot of +1 replys or something...:-/

Other groups probably have none.

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Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group