A poll implies we already know the list of problems and simply need someone to rank them for us. A "suggestion box" is more open ended, and will tend to expose problems that we might not have thought about. In program management speak, one is a tool to narrow options, the other, a tool to widen them. If we (the community, not just the OGB) were together in person (like at one of the summits or at OSCON...), we could fill a wall with brainstorming postits, group them by affinity, and prioritize the groupings. Doing something similar online is more difficult, as we are seeing.
We (OGB) also need to consider where we can be the most effective - we need to find problems that can actually be solved by the people on the OGB, given all our limitations on time, influence and control; in the past we've found that "trying to tell Sun what to do" is a less-than-satisfying tactic for all concerned. -John On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Valerie Bubb Fenwick <Valerie.Fenwick at sun.com> wrote: > On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, John Plocher wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Jim Walker <James.Walker at sun.com> wrote: >>> >>> Seeing veteran ogb members struggle with how to handle and/or >>> determine opensolaris community priories tells me this may be >>> a hard problem and may need more time and thought. >> >> +1 >> >> Part of the tension comes from what we are - OpenSolaris.Org is a >> collection of independently vibrant and active self-governing >> communities. ?"We" aren't just the OS/Net code, nor are we the >> Indiana/OpenSolaris binary distro, nor any one of the dozens and >> dozens of other entities that call our website and mailing lists and >> other ephemera home. ?Whatever it is that makes us more than the sum >> of our parts, that "extra, special sauce" is where the OGB fits in - >> as facilitator, cheerleader, ombudsman, fixer, whatever.... > > Hi John - > > That is where I'd like to see my role, and I would be interested > in knowing where teh community would like to see us focus our > efforts (as best we can, with the skills we have). perhaps a poll > is not the right thing - are there other suggestions? > > Valerie > -- > Valerie Fenwick, http://blogs.sun.com/bubbva > Solaris Security Technologies, ?Developer, Sun Microsystems, Inc. > 17 Network Circle, Menlo Park, CA, 94025. >
