despite my voice having no official weight in the community, +1 On 15-Feb-08, at 1:13 AM, Michal Bielicki wrote:
> Trying to ignore the current amount of trademark discussions, I would > like to put the following to the attention of the OGB: > > Motion to the Board: Proposed Community Group Creation > > Summary > The OpenSolaris community could profit a lot from a new Community > Group > that would coordinate and organize the multitude of efforts to port > software to the OpenSolaris Platform, without actually changing their > scopes or behaviors, but creating a central space where any interested > party can find each and all needed so he can port software, port > drivers, find ported software etc .. > > Scope > The proposed Software Porters Community Group shall be the group that > coordinates, advocates, encourages and helps with the porting of > Software from multiple Platforms to the OpenSolaris Platform. This is > neither a proposal for a new packaging system, nor for a new > collection > of software (therefore it neither is something like blastwave, nor in > its core the same like the migration community suggestion which both > want to work on specific ways of porting/packaging). Its a proposal to > create a community of porters, advocates and advisors that will help > people who want to port software, advise them, create documentation > and > maintain links and resources about the many different places you can > find information and ported software. This will be handled in a way > that > shall be independent of religion and politics regarding amongst others > the way packages are done o if sunstudio or gcc are the better way > to do > things. > > The OpenSolaris Software Porters Community will actively work to > collect > from all the other projects involved in porting software (like desktop > for example) all information regarding their work and be the central > point of information regarding all things porting and ported > software to > OpenSolaris.org. > > We would also like to establish processes and resources to provide > porters with resources necessary to do their work, talk to sponsors, > work on getting gear where porters can test and create their ports > etc. > > Example of Projects this community would want to start are: > - Create and maintain a database of porting projects (SFE, > Sunfreeware, > blastwave, IPS, Opensolaris.org SFW.....) > - Create and maintain a list of links to all information available > about > porting software to solaris/opensolaris/Indiana/whatsitsname > - Create and maintain a database of documents related to the same > - Create new documentation, which helps and explains how to port > software to the aforementioned > - Try to create a pool of resources for porters (ask sponsors for CPU > cycles, repository space ... ... ... ) maybe modeled after opensuses > build system ? > > > Rationale > There are many reasons a central Community for Software Porters is > needed. First and foremost because information and interoperation is > scattered around. Secondary reasons are as follows (this is just a > short > list): > No central place for information exchange for porters > No collection of information how and with which tools it is easiest > to port > A lack of reasons for people to port (why should I include solaris > in my > platforms ?) > Porting seems to be scattered around different projects and > communities, > partly in desktop, partly in SFW, partly external with SUN, partly > with > Blastwave. > There is no activity currently noticeable to encourage OpenSource > projects and also Closed Source developers to port their software to > the > OpenSolaris platform. Strangely enough we have often seen that people > get told that its complicated, a lot of work, very hard to do and > information not available. > > In addition, none of the existing Community Groups are properly scoped > for the kind of decisions that need to made to by a knowledgeable, > focused group of individuals whose primary interest relates to the > production of software that runs on the OpenSoalris platform. > > > > Proposal > The core of this proposal is to: > > Create a Software Porters Community Group > Create a Software Porters Information Portal (the central place for > everything porting to solaris) > Start evangelizing porting to OpenSolaris at FOSS and non FOSS > conferences and shows. > That the following individuals be considered for the initial set of > core > contributors (all have been asked and confirmed their readynes to > become > core contributors): > > Michal Bielicki (cypromis) > Damian Wojslaw (trochej) > Michal Pryc (migi) > Michael Jerris (mjerris) > > > > Proposed Contributor List: > > Kristopher Januszajtis-Neale > Ed Pimentel > Alexander Feldman > Jay Fenton (jfenton) > > During the discussion about Project or Community there have been more > requests from people who would be ready to become contributors, I will > update this list during the next days with their names and > opensolaris.org id?s > > I would ask the OGB consider this proposal two weeks from February > 15th, > 2008 > > Thank you for your attention to this matter. > > -- > -- > Michal Bielicki > CEO > http://www.voiceworks.pl/ > Voice Works Sp. z o.o. z siedziba w Warszawie przy ulicy Polnej 46/14, > 00-644 Warszawa, Polska > wpisana zostala do rejestru przedsiebiorcow prowadzonego przez > Sad Rejonowy dla M.ST.Warszawy w Warszawie, > XII Wydzial Krajowego Rejestru Sadowego pod numerem KRS 0000257259. > NIP 701-00-25-117 > Wysokosc kapitalu zakladowego: 51000,00 PLN > > _______________________________________________ > ogb-discuss mailing list > ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss
