On 02/22/10 03:09 PM, Jim Grisanzio wrote: > Abhishek Kumar wrote: >> I am not sure if I have voting rights on this but a big +1 for the same!
This actually applies to me too but since Jim has mentioned that new groups do have voting rights it's cool as I was a bit eagerly early to jump into the voting pool :-) Thanks to open thoughts and democracy!! Lot's of places and countries could learn from us although won't mention names.... :-P But point made Jim with minor groups such as mine really not knowing where we stand and also if we're even contributing enough. I mean whoever I speak to in Turkey about communities or even sponsorships etc... it seems that the general overview is that life has become a struggle to survive as in people looking for a solution to the day let alone tomorrow and if not trying to earn money to put bread on the table will be dealing with their families most of the time. Basically meaning that no one out here will end up with a community spirit or even wanting to devote time to something which isn't going to bring them any income. This actually raises a lot of fears for me and my groups future but I'm sure once I get my data center sorted out then people will be interested to know and see what's going on before they start asking if it runs MS Windows :-) .... sorry for digressing but I think for many smaller groups in 'difficult' countries this is a major issue and needs to be addressed somehow if not at least the concerns voiced. Anyway back the original discussion: Few, Kaya > > This issue comes up from time to time, so I thought I`d clarify since > there are dozens and dozens of new groups now. > > The OpenSolaris community has a Constitution that outlines some > processes for Community Groups, and voting is done by Core > Contributors within each of the Community Groups (such as here in > Advocacy). Under that system, Community Groups vote for and "sponsor" > Projects, and that relationship is directly reflected in the site`s > database. > > But the Constitution does not reflect all the realities of how the > OpenSolaris community functions on a day to day basis on > opensolaris.org, and it does not mention User Groups at all. So as a > courtesy, we in the Advocacy Community vote to sponsor User Groups so > we keep somewhat consistent with the rest of the community. However, > this sponsor relationship is not reflected in the site`s database. If > Advocacy wanted to sponsor Projects, however, as we have done in some > cases, then that relationship would be reflected in the database and > we`d have to follow the Constitution with only Core Contributors > voting. Initially, we required only votes from CCs for new User > Groups, but we opened that up long time ago. > > In short, as far as I am concerned, you can vote no matter what your > governance status is since this is not a governance issue. > > And finally, voting has always been somewhat casual in Advocacy. And > that`s how it should be. :) > > Jim > _______________________________________________ > advocacy-discuss mailing list > advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss
