First of all I am not exactly clear on how these things are done officially as there is no documentation on os.org (not that I can find anyway) as to how a community is proposed. My understanding that a community is a precursor to a project...feel free to guide me in the right direction.
What I am proposing: A community focused on running Wine on OpenSolaris and it's derivitaves (Belenix, Indiana, SXDE and so on). This proposal includes related open source technologies such as Wine-Doors. What is Wine?, sourced from Wikipedia: Wine is a software application which aims to allow Unix-like computer operating systems on the x86 architecture to execute programs written for Microsoft Windows. Wine also provides a software library known as Winelib which developers can compile Windows applications against to help port them to Unix-like systems. How will this benefit the OpenSolaris community and in particular the desktop community?: The OpenSolaris community and Sun Microsystems are reaching out to developers by positioning OpenSolaris as a desktop development platform. Many developers use their systems also as a desktop platform and need to use the same applications as their Windows using colleagues. The most common being applications like Photoshop or Visio. Support: Link: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=48261&tstart=0 This was proposed in the discuss community but it looks like it didn't get any attention as it wasn't proposed in the Desktop community Resources: WineHQ: http://winehq.org/ Wine-Doors: http://www.wine-doors.org/wordpress/ Codeweavers: http://www.codeweavers.com/ Blastwave wine: http://www.blastwave.org/wine/ This message posted from opensolaris.org
