[ug-discuss] Re: Sponsor Project Indiana

[Stephen Lau]

Yes, good idea.

Eric Boutilier wrote:
> 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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