Jim Grisanzio wrote: > hey ... > > I've been Advocacy Facilitator for many years now. Anyone interested > in taking over the roll?
I am getting some responses off list about what is involved in being Advocacy Facilitator. Basically, the Facilitator is a Core Contributor who is the main communications link between the Advocacy Community Group and the OGB. That`s the most important thing, and it`s specified in the Constitution. So you`d maintain the Advocacy governance records -- Contributor and Core Contributor status, basically, which is taken care of automatically in the database but it needs someone to follow up on who requested what status and if things were voted on properly and sent to the OGB for processing, etc. You`d facilitate governance discussions related to Advocacy, too (elections). You`d update web pages (and there is a lot of that work that needs doing here). Advocacy endorses a few projects and over 120 OSUG projects, so you`d have to be on all those lists so you can properly communicate with everyone. UGs and projects go dormant from time to time, so there is a lot of work to help find new leaders and maintain the leaders grid. Updates to the news page are badly needed, too. Regarding new projects: I have been setting up UG projects here but the proper place for that is project-setup, so you`ll have to interact with people who are proposing projects and UGs and manage the threads and then when final voting is done send the approved request in the right format to project-setup. I currently staff project-setup for the creation of all projects on the site, and I will continue to do this. Another issue that comes up from time to time is when Sun sponsors programs to distribute items to the community -- OSUG kits, basically. There is actually a lot of communications work to implement these programs, and the Facilitator can help a great deal (since you will know everyone around the place). Advocacy is home to about 5,000 people, so it`s potentially a pretty big deal if someone wants to take it and run with it. You have to be serious and see it as an opportunity, though. I`ve certainly taken it as far as I can go given my circumstances and goals and plans, so it`s time for someone new. Now, there is no process for making a transition like this, so if multiple people are interested we`d have to figure out a simple and fair process to manage that so we can choose. One last thing: when we start migrating to the new site this summer, there will be a lot of issues to consider for Advocacy since it has so any spaces on the site (primarily OSUGs), so you`ll have to like communicating. :) Facilitation = Communication. That`s all I can think of at the moment. More here: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/facilitation/ http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/entry/the_return_of_the_opensolaris Jim
