"Brian Gupta" <brian.gupta at gmail.com> wrote:
...
> Complaining about it, no matter how many emails we post on list, won't
> change things. If we want to change things, it will take hard work.
>
> Stop complaining, and do something about it. Get organized. Lead or join a
> project to develop a new trademark w/ a supporting nonprofit foundation,
> that are controlled by the community. (If you care to DO something about it,
> feel free to contact me on or off list.)
>
> This requires work. It will require, web developers, sysadmins, etc. to
> build new website, and people willing to brainstorm in private about
> potential trademarks. (Obviously when we are talking about registering
> domains, we will need to do so in private.)
>
> We will need to build out our infrastructure so that we can host
> development, mailing-lists and etc.. Once that is done, we will need to make
> the case to start moving development to the new organization/infrstructure.
> This will mean that even Sun employees will have to chose to move their
> development work to a community "controlled" development infrastructure.
> (Let's cross this bridge when we come to it. I just list it because it is
> daunting).
This is what I did think off and propose on a few mails also.
It will not only take a big effort, it will also cost some money to support
the infrastructure. We may need to find sponsors, depending on the amount of
freedom we like to have in the community variant of OpenSolaris.
As a free hosting service, there is Berlios.de and for mailing lists we may
either use berlios or genunix.....
In any case, we would need quite a few people to set up a sufficient amount of
web content in order to become visible enough fast.
J?rg
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