[ug-discuss] Re: Sponsor Project Indiana

[Simon Phipps]

On Jun 6, 2007, at 16:50, Eric Boutilier wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Stephen Lau wrote:
>> Simon Phipps wrote:
>>> On Jun 6, 2007, at 16:14, Stephen Lau wrote:
>>>> Simon Phipps wrote:
>>>>> I'm afraid I don't agree on either count.
>>>>> This is an engineering project. It is not Marketing or  
>>>>> Advocacy. It should be in a place where co-development  
>>>>> engineers will participate. That is not here.
>>>> But isn't part of Indiana about addressing the perceived needs  
>>>> of non-Solaris users?  Doesn't that involve marketing and advocacy?
>>> In which case many other aspects of OpenSolaris belong here. I'd  
>>> suggest though that a "Distributions" community is a more  
>>> appropriate venue.
>>
>> Agreed.
>
> Me too.
>
>> Though, for the time being, since the "Distributions" community  
>> doesn't exist
>
> I'd be very willing to help start one.
>
> Here are the key requirements per the main Community page:
>
>     ... Proposals need to list at least 3 current Core Contributors  
> who are
>     nominating the community, at least 3 participants who will  
> become the
>     initial Core Contributors of the new community, and one person  
> who will
>     serve as the community's Facilitator...
>
> I'm a Core Contributor, and we probably have several others on
> this discussion who are as well...

I would support that proposal (I am a core contributor).

S.