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. 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
