As a person coming from a post communist country, comittees and similar always scaare me ;) So I found out that to create a community we need to apply to the OGB and that the PLOSUG as a Project can not be one of the Sponsors of another project. Since most of the packagers are currently on the Desktop list I am CCing this to the Desktop list and CCing it as a request for a new Community to the OGB as well
cheers Michal Michal Bielicki wrote: > S h i v wrote: > >> The desktop-community[1] members, SFW consolidation[2] list members & >> Image Packaging System project[3] members might be interested in this. >> You may want to consider mailing to those lists as well. >> >> SFE project is an excellent effort to port softwares to opensolaris by >> members of desktop community. Lots of them are available in the >> repository (http://pkgbuild.sourceforge.net/spec-files-extra). >> >> best regards >> Shiv >> >> [1] http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop >> [2] http://opensolaris.org/os/project/sfwnv/discussions >> [3] http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/pkg >> >> >> > > I know, I ported unixODBC to SFE and extended libcurl to be 32/64bit in > there as well. I wanted to first follow the classic approval lines > and than pass it to the other lists with the question who would be > interested. One of the reasons for us doing this proposal is exactly the > confusion that gets created > cause most portingis hidden in other projects, like Desktop, which for > example is the totaly wrong place for my porting efforts which are all > in the VoIP server space :) > >> On Feb 4, 2008 5:52 PM, Michal Bielicki <michal.bielicki at voiceworks.pl> >> wrote: >> >> >>> Hi Guys, >>> I wanted to create this for a year now, but somehow never got the >>> proposal together. So since now there seem to be quite a bunch of people >>> that want to support this, here is my proposal. I am ready to manage and >>> handle the project and would be also very very thankful for comments, >>> suggestions, >>> proposals and so on. >>> >>> Project/Community Proposal for the OpenSolaris Software Porters Community >>> Short Name >>> Porting Software to OpenSolaris >>> >>> Sponsoring Communities >>> Desktop ? >>> Polish OpenSolaris UserGroup >>> Indiana ? >>> >>> Initial participants >>> Michal Bielicki >>> Damian Wojslaw >>> Kristopher Januszajtis-Neale >>> Ed Pimentel >>> Alexander Feldman >>> Jay Fenton >>> Mike Jerris >>> Michal Pryc >>> >>> >>> Any OGB members interested? >>> Any Indiana participants interested? >>> Anyone else interested? >>> >>> Description: >>> >>> The project is to create a central space for the collection of >>> information, exchange of information >>> discussion and repository storage of software projects that are being >>> ported to Solaris and OpenSolaris. >>> We would like to collect all the scattered information, like mileks >>> tutorial on IPS packaging, Laca's SFE project >>> and all the other nice and helpful sources in a central space and >>> herewith make porting software to OpenSolaris >>> a far easier Job than it is now, with a supporting IRC channel, a >>> forum/mailing list for experience exchange and >>> discussion and ultimately actively work to get sponsors to provide CPU >>> cycle for Projects that would like to port >>> their code to OpenSolaris (Something along the line of Novells/SuSE >>> Open Build Servers, but for OpenSolaris ?). >>> From personal experience we know that porting can be a horrendously tricky >>> job if you need to find all the information yourself. >>> >>> >>> Project part: >>> Create and maintain a database of porting projects (SFE, Sunfreeware, >>> blastwave, .....) >>> Create and maintain a list of links to all information available about >>> porting software to solaris/opensolaris/Indiana/whatsitsname >>> Create and maintain a database of documents related to the same >>> Create new documentation, which helps and explains how to port software >>> to the aforementioned >>> Try to create a pool of ressources for porters (ask sponsors for CPU >>> cycles, repository space ... ... ... ) >>> Yes I know ... loads of work :) >>> >>> Community part: >>> An information exchange forum/mailing list where porters can discuss >>> experiences and people can ask if someone is already >>> working on a specific package >>> A wiki that will help create part of the project part >>> A portal to all the project part >>> >>> ----------------- >>> >>> Any input on what else could be done is very appreciated. >>> >>> cheers >>> Michal >>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> Michal Bielicki >>> CEO >>> http://www.voiceworks.pl/ >>> Voice Works Sp. z o.o. z siedziba w Warszawie przy ulicy Polnej 46/14, >>> 00-644 Warszawa, Polska >>> wpisana zostala do rejestru przedsiebiorcow prowadzonego przez >>> Sad Rejonowy dla M.ST.Warszawy w Warszawie, >>> XII Wydzial Krajowego Rejestru Sadowego pod numerem KRS 0000257259. >>> NIP 701-00-25-117 >>> Wysokosc kapitalu zakladowego: 51000,00 PLN >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> advocacy-discuss mailing list >>> advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss >>> >>> >>> > > > -- -- Michal Bielicki CEO http://www.voiceworks.pl/ Voice Works Sp. z o.o. z siedziba w Warszawie przy ulicy Polnej 46/14, 00-644 Warszawa, Polska wpisana zostala do rejestru przedsiebiorcow prowadzonego przez Sad Rejonowy dla M.ST.Warszawy w Warszawie, XII Wydzial Krajowego Rejestru Sadowego pod numerem KRS 0000257259. 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