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Ray Strong Sun Microsystems, Inc. US Phone x49610 / +1 650 352 8438 Mobile +1 415-819-8199 Email Ray.Strong at Sun.Com ----- Original Message ----- From: Stephen Lau <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 3:27 pm Subject: Re: [ogb-discuss] Proposal for Virtual Client Community To: Keith M Wesolowski <Keith.Wesolowski at Sun.COM> Cc: James Carlson <James.D.Carlson at Sun.COM>, Glynn Foster <Glynn.Foster at Sun.COM>, ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org, Ray.Strong at Sun.COM > Keith M Wesolowski wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 05:22:44PM -0400, James Carlson wrote: > > > > > >> I doubt we'll be able to do that, as the last time we tried to do this > >> by email or on short notice, we failed. OGB votes require quorum. > >> > >> On the plus side, I'm inclined to vote for it. > >> > > > > As was I, although I'm disturbed to see additional evidence that this > > is an item appearing on anyone's schedule or being monitored by > > program managers. > > > > But, it's also partly my fault for not having written up an > > alternative process for people in this situation. So how about this? > > Ray, you seem to consider your "PMT" to be significant stakeholders > in > > this process. So please invite them to join this discussion and > > explain to us what they think about this proposal in the context of > > the OpenSolaris Community, and why they feel it's important. No one > > gets to hide behind a corporate firewall and play puppeteer. > > > > > It doesn't particularly bother me. There's nothing wrong with > corporates, or whatever the "PMT" is wanting to know what's going on. > > The proposed Virtual Client Community is following the rules and > engaging with us. However they want to engage with whomever funds > their > development doesn't concern us as long as it isn't causing inter-CG > conflict, or causing the CG to violate some part of its charter with > the > rest of the OpenSolaris community and the OGB. > > Besides, it could be as innocuous as Ray wanting to give a status > report > to his PMT (which, as a random aside, I never did find out what PMT > was > an acronym for) - which seems perfectly reasonable. Our PMT (Portfolio Management Team) is essentially Jeff Jackson's staff. I'm sure Bob Gianni, our Director, will be glad to attend a discussion if one is scheduled and we can invite Jeff. And yes, my request was innocuous: we are presenting our status tomorrow, which includes progress on creating this Virtual Client Community. ... Ray > > cheers, > steve > > -- > stephen lau | stevel at opensolaris.org | www.whacked.net >
