On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:28 AM, Lynn Rohrer<Lynn.Rohrer at sun.com> wrote: > I'm a little concerned that we're discussing removing communities > without talking to the listed community leaders (or has this happened in > the background?). > > I think many of the leaders would either support merging their content with > other communities > or accept help in reinvigorating their communities.
That's the aim; my list was a list of candidate communities that need closer investigation. Note that many of them simply aren't communities except in name - their constitutional status is invalid. But first we have to get a handle on the scope of the problem. Then we can start working with the affected groups to find a solution. > On a related note: I started talking to a few community facilitators about > the state of their > communities after seeing the initial message and it seems that we may > have an education problem with a number of the communities. I found folks > who weren't aware of the contributor grant process and other general > OpenSolaris governance activities. Indeed? Well if we've flushed that out then that's a small success. > I believe there was talk at one time of creating an alias for all the > community facilitators > to share governance information and provide tips and best practices for > increasing their > community activity. Was an alias ever created? That's the facilitation list that Michelle got set up. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/facilitation/ > Didn't see any response to our offer of providing an overall view of the > community statistics... > Is the OGB interested in that data? Well, I know I am. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
