[ug-discuss] Re: Sponsor Project Indiana

[Eric Boutilier]

Should we maybe send an heads-up message to the leadership of
the five distros? (Six including Indiana.) I suspect some of
them would not otherwise know about this effort.

Eric

On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Eric Boutilier wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Stephen Lau wrote:
>> Simon Phipps wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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).
>> 
>> I'll nominate as well.
>
> OK, that's three[1].
>
> So when it comes to creating a new Community Group, the biggest delay is a
> required 14-day discussion period[2]. So in the interest of starting that
> timer as soon as possible, I hope to pull together and post/review a 1st
> draft of the proposal here as soon as possible. And with that in mind, I'll
> get there even faster if I have a tailwind. Which is to say, if anyone can
> contribute bullets or paragraphs, especially wording around goals and
> technical scope, any and all help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Here are the guidelines they provide for proposal writers:
>
>    ".. Community members can propose new Community Groups by
>    writing to the ogb-discuss list outlining items such as
>    goals, technical scope, potential participants, leaders,
>    and activities..."
>
> --Eric
>
> 1. Keep those nominations coming though -- three is just the
>   required minimum.
>
> 2. Please direct any comments about excessive beuracracy to
>   opensolaris-discuss :)
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