Well...we are a young community, we have a lot of improvement opportunities. Let's learn the lessons we have from the other, maybe older communities.
the features Sun included in it, but I didn't see much at all about >> the community itself. > > In the next event we can think in some "Communities Pavilion" to promote our efforts, not as a brand, then as communities...agree? > >> Oh, it was there. It was just under the surface, that's all. The > community is still too small to fill a large venue like Moscone Well...there is a starting point for everything. Let's think *big* and plan one or more sessions in the next event where the community "products" will be present. Sun can help the communities growth, and this helps Sun be bigger. 15 years ago people used to ask me "who uses this strange OS you have in your machine? What is Linux? And what is Solaris x86?". Now we know about both. > Let's not forget that the company did an extraordinary thing four years ago > by opening up all this technology and funding all the infrastructure, Mmm...I disagree here...If Sun would not opened the code, the Solaris popularity would be maybe bigger than HP-UX, but lower than Linux. We are commited to make our communities grow because we are enthusiastic with the technology first developed by Sun, and then opened. > but I've always said (and still believe) that the responsibility for > community development largely rests with the community -- not with Sun. +1 here > Sun's contribution to the community was to bootstrap the project with > source code, tools, engineers, infrastructure, exposure, and some initial > community development programs. That's quite an investment, actually. And > other companies are starting to participate, too, which is adding a new > element to the mix. It would be great if the "other" companies take this as a worldwide policy. > But we as a community of people need to assert much more of a role in > organizing /ourselves/ rather than always looking to Sun to do it for us. > I don't know in other places, but here (Argentina) there are only three Sun employees in our community. We organize our meetings, events, tech talks, etc. interacting with other LUG's, PUG's, etc. > That's what the OSUGs have done. Back when we opened the project we had no > OSUGs and no OSUG program. No one had any cash to give these guys so we just > created a little community on the site and opened some lists and that's > pretty much it. Then we moved them to project spaces and gave out some > t-shirts and CDs and they just grew organically for the most part. That's > why we like the OSUGs. They just went about the business of organizing > /themselves/ without always looking to Sun to do the work for them. > > By the way, later this week we will be exactly 4 years old. On June 14. Time for margaritas! > > > Jim > > -- > http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/ > > > _______________________________________________ > ogb-discuss mailing list > ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss > Best regards, -- HeCSa -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/attachments/20090610/b4f1d2bb/attachment.html>
