Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> Keith M Wesolowski wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 10:09:38AM +1200, Glynn Foster wrote: > > >>> How do we get this moving forward? >> >> >> >> Find a Group (preferably a relevant one) that wants to create your >> mailing list. That's really all there is to it. Creating new mail >> aliases like distro-discuss that squat on the namespace is naughty, >> though; the name should be a part of the sponsoring Group's namespace. > > > > Glynn ... > > Can't the Marketing Community Group just sponsor Indy so we can get a > project space and list set up? > > Indy has been proposed by people who work in Sun marketing and who are > also part of the Marketing Community Group on OpenSolaris. It seems to > me that if Indy has the long term goal of "increasing the userbase and > growing mindshare in the volume market by providing easy access to the > technology created within the OpenSolaris community" than the Marketing > CG should just sponsor this project ASAP. Heck, the User Group Community > ought to do the same. And if the OGB approves the Advocacy Community > proposal, then Advocacy will be the sponsoring CG. The (potential) > Advocacy CG will range from non-technical issues and projects to > technical projects, and if Indy is supposed to help grow the OpenSolaris > user and developer community around the world then the 50 or so user > groups ought to participate as well. > > Jim fyi: I started a thread on ug-discuss and opensolaris-mktg to see if either of those two Community Groups would support sponsoring the Indy project. There is plenty of support: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=32300&tstart=0 Jim -- Jim Grisanzio http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris
