Well.... let us not forget that on several fronts we have developments in the newer JDS (GNOME 2.14.x), KDE, and Xfce. We really don;t need to duplicate efforts in ceratin areas yet 2-3 versions of various styles in more than enough when it comes to providing desktop environments and window managers.
As for the various libs,commands and utilities I'd think we'd need to list out what groups are involved in Solaris package builds as of today. We have NetBSD.org, OpenPkgs, Blastwave.org, Sunfreeware, MIT, and a few others out there. As an opinion, I'd think providing a Blastwave/Sunfreeware combined DVD(s) for open source magazines and journalists can help the OpenSolaris community. if people want the latest Debian or BSD distro, giving them a DVD with a chock full of open source software is a good start. Adding Looking Glass to the distro and JOGL demos also helps at developer conferences and user meetings. Belenix and Nexenta provide great distros - yet this is now where we have to look at package development in which the same Solaris packages can work on any of these distros - SXCR, Belenix, Nexenta, Schillix with zero effort outside of the normal pkgadd/pkgrm or whatever of the current CSW/SFW and SUNW packages. This could even branch out to working with the commercial ISVs (the ones on the Sun Solutions CD/DVD) so their software can be tested on OpenSolaris (Nevada-based) distros as well as the standard Sun-supported Solaris 8/9/10 distros. This makes life a bit better even for Linux/BSD users wanting to port and review software development on Sun Solaris platforms. Ken Mays @ EarthLink, Inc. Blastwave.org maintainer -- This messages posted from opensolaris.org
