Ben Rockwood wrote: > It may be too early to propose this, but I'd like to propose that the > Immigrants Community be consolidated into an Advocacy Community Project > should this proposal be approved by the OGB. This new community > consolidation provides a solid home for a number of communities that are > currently "loose threads" and can benefit from added structure. As a > leader of both OS Marketing and OS Immigrants I fully endorse the > proposal before the OGB. > > benr.
Ben ... I don't have a problem with your suggestion at all, but I think the UG and Marketing lists should have a say as well. I can't imagine it would be a problem. Let me send a quick note. Jim -- Jim Grisanzio, Sr. Program Manager, OpenSolaris Engineering http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris > 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. >> >>
