Nicolas Dorfsman wrote: > Le 30 sept. 08 ? 06:21, Glynn Foster a ?crit >> So during our call last week, I took an action to write up a set of >> slides that gave an update on where we are with the plans for >> community re-structuring (apart from having to read 2008/010 which I >> also recommend [1]). Here's the first pass it this - comments/ >> updates welcome. >>
Good job, Glynn. :) This should come in handy. > Thanks a lot for this ! > > I have some comments : > - "Electorate" and OpenSolaris member : who would be granted to this > "collective" ? I really don't understand this part ? No link with the > overall community participation ? Really confusing. > The Electorate collective is just a group to hold the Membership. It's sort of a back end thing. On the site, you'll see Projects, Communities, and User Groups. If people want to become Members of the community, they can go through the Membership process http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OGB_2008/010_membership > - User groups : no "contributors" ? I think we need something between > participant and leader. > - User Groups (again) : there is at least two ugs which are more than > just geographic groups. We are, and are proud of, language-centric, as > well as spanish group. > That's fine. But the vast majority of UGs are based on a specific geography and they meet locally. If a UG has a strong association to a specific language that cuts across many geographies, then those guys can also participate in the country/language communities (currently the "portals") that will lead in the translations of content on the site. That's already the case, actually, where some portals are home to some UGs. > - User Groups (again and again) : I believe we'd need some federating > thing. The language-centric identity is a exemple...opposite to this, > I'm sure we could find benefit by federating all europeans ug, > american, ... and so on. > As a means of identifying themselves? It's an interesting idea, but isn't that obvious? And it could get confusing, too. For instance, would Beijing be part of the Chinese identity or part of the Asian identity as you have it characterized? > - User Groups (again, again and again) : We need power ! I mean...how > many osug in the world aren't Sun-people centric ? Would you like to > have more external people/companies taking part of UGs ? Give us more > power on OGB decisions, it could be seen as power on OpenSolaris > evolution. > The OSUGs will have significantly more visibility under the new system -- and visibility is critically important to growth. I have been arguing for over a year that the UGs should be removed from the Advocacy CG and be on their own as equals to Projects and Communities with top level billing on the site. And there is clear agreement on this. In fact, the thinking that has gone into that specific problem has influenced the entire simplification/reorg we are doing. We have substantially flattened the community structure as a result http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OGB_2008/010. So, look for the new structure to help UGs a lot. :) If UGs want more of a voice in governance issues, it's easy. Those who participate in UGs can become Members of the community and vote and run for office (which they can do now). I don't think the UGs have a governance issue, though. We simply have to grow more uses and share more and get together more, that's all. As the community engages more users with the distributions, then more groups will form as a result. And Sun can help this process too, such as a few months ago when we sent out shirts, and mugs, and hats, and dvds, etc. We'd like to do this again at some point to encourage UGs to form and be active ... Jim -- http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/
