Brian Nitz wrote: > For example, think of an outsider trying to create and integrate a set > of educational software into an educational OpenSource distribution. > Is there an educational opensource community? No. > > How do I create an educational opensource community? (I'd guess you > have to be a voting member and/or contributor to some other community???) > > How do I become a voting member? (It's somewhere in this thread, be > recognized as a core contributer to some community) but since this > proposal doesn't match any existing community, I'm still on the outside...) > > O.K. Now I have my community, how do I create a project? (It's > described in legalese in the constitution, but really, how do I create a > project?) > > I understand that most technical people who really want their project > accepted in the OpenSource community will persist until some insider who > thinks they understand the process du jour sponsors the project and > pushes it through. But this early in OpenSolaris's growth we really > afford to alienate any potential technical contributors who can just as > easily decide to not bother porting their solution to OpenSolaris and > instead port it to one of several hundred GNU/Linux distributions?
+1, I couldn't agree more. -- Alan Burlison --
