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

[Jim Grisanzio]

Alan DuBoff wrote On 04/26/07 11:06,:
> 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.


Regarding the contributor and core contributor issue, I pinged each 
individual UG list for their names as well as ug-discuss. In fact, the 
discussion about this on ug-discuss took place over the span of a couple 
of weeks and generated dozens of mails. It was quite a mess picking 
through all of it, as I remember. :)

Jim
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