Hey, I think Jim's made a good effort to figure out the various current issues and talk to the communities involved - this gets my vote, and I'd like to make sure those guys can feel like they can proceed to the implementation of the proposal.
Glynn Jim Grisanzio wrote: > To the OGB: > > For about a month, the User Group Community and the Marketing Community > have had an active conversation about merging the two communities and > moving the individual user groups to projects endorsed by the new > community. The purpose for these moves is to help in the community > consolidation effort, to focus our global outreach efforts, to remove > areas of redundancy, and to raise the profiles of user groups. > > Communities to be merged: > > Marketing Community: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/marketing/ > UG Community: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/ > > Consensus has been reached and the conversation threads are here: > > Advocates (Advocacy) Community Group: 4/26/07 > http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=29345&tstart=0 > > Community Consolidation -- Marketing & UGs: 4/3/07 > http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=27548&tstart=0 > http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=27547&tstart=0 > > Action Requested: As a result of this conversation, we'd like OGB > approval to move forward. > > Advocacy Community Group > > The Advocacy Community Group exists to help people around the world get > involved in the OpenSolaris Community. We welcome participation from > people of all languages and cultures and people with all levels of > technical and non-technical skills. Everyone has something to contribute. > > In here you will find independent user groups listed by language and > geography, news, articles, profiles, blogs, technical and non-technical > presentations, videos and podcasts, events and conferences, metrics and > graphics, swag, badges, buttons, and a variety of promotional projects. > > Our defining guidelines and values are simple: we embrace the > OpenSolaris Principles http://opensolaris.org/os/about/ and we are a > community group in good standing under the OpenSolaris Constitution > http://opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/governance/ > > Join us and participate in the OpenSolaris Community ... > > Advocacy Community Leaders: Contributors and Core Contributors from the > Marketing and UG Communities submitted for the first OpenSolaris > election. We need to start with this pool of names initially since we > are merging two existing communities. > > Initial Advocacy Community Facilitator: Jim Grisanzio (jimgris) > > Implementation Sequence: > > * 5/1/07: Brief the OGB about merger plan and get final approval. > * Merge Marketing and UG Community lists for contributors and core > contributors and maintain as one list. > * Write final community mission statement. > * Create a new community -- Advocacy Community -- and migrate content. > * Create a new list -- advocacy at opensolaris.org -- and merge names. > * Start migrating existing user groups to projects and begin creating > new user groups under a new process based on the OGB's project > creation guidelines and the listing of UGs by language and geo. > * Endorse all user group projects. > * Establish URL re-directs for migrated content. > * Migrate Marketing & UG Community content to the Advocacy community. > * Migrate Newsletter content out of the Content Project: > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/content/newsletter/ > * Link to and re-activate Articles: http://opensolaris.org/os/articles/ > * Delete old Marketing & UG communities and lists. > > > Jim > -- > Jim Grisanzio, Community Manager, OpenSolaris > http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris > > > _______________________________________________ > ogb-discuss mailing list > ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss
