Hi Ch?, A simple distinction between a community and project is that the former is on-going by adding new updates or new components to the existence of that community it tries to server, and the later simply a finite time period where some pre-defined tasks are completed. Though it is more flexible to be a project in terms of getting your own web spaces and files repositories on OpenSolaris.Org since community in general are made up of a bigger group of people, the leadership (hence ability to edit webpages and allocate files repositories) are more straighter controlled.
I like your proposal under the Desktop (be it a project or sub-community) +1 from me -Ghee Ch? Kristo wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
