[ug-discuss] Re: Sponsor Project Indiana

[Eric Boutilier]

[Revisiting this sub-thread between Simon and Steve]...

On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, 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.

I agree with Simon.

>> 
>> 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.

Although a Distributions community would indeed be an appropriate venue --
/if/ it existed. There isn't a Distributions Community Group today, and for
good reason (I now realize)...

Quoting Peter Tribble:

"... Why create a formal management structure"

Full post: 
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-mktg/2007-June/003854.html

Eric