Hi Jim, Is it mandatory to be a core contributor to work as an advocacy facilitator? If it is not then i am really interested to take the challenge as i already informed you a couple of days ago.
In short to say, i am working actively for open source community development since a decade. At present, leading the organization "The OSS Movement" ( www.ossmovement.org) as president that works for the F/OSS adoption to reduce digital divide. Thanks, Anwarul On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Jim Grisanzio <Jim.Grisanzio at sun.com>wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > advocacy-discuss mailing list > advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss > -- Microsoft is not the answer, Microsoft is the question -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/advocacy-discuss/attachments/20090526/f1291383/attachment.html>
