Yup - once the communities give approval, you can go ahead and setup the 
project infrastructure.  The OGB shouldn't need to be involved.

cheers,
steve

Eric Boutilier wrote:
> [ In hopes this isn't being presumptuous, under the new
> process I'm assuming that awaiting OGB affirmation and
> project website staging can happen in parallel... ]
> 
> Thanks Ienup and Simford. I'll contact you offline to get you set up.
> 
> Eric
> 
> On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Ienup Sung wrote:
>> Dear OGB:
>>
>> This email is to inform you that we, the Internationalization (I18N) and
>> Localization (L10N) community, approved the "Nevada Globalization" 
>> project
>> proposed by Simford Dong and would like to sponsor the project at
>> the community.
>>
>> The project information based on the section 2.2 of the OpenSolaris 
>> project
>> creation process are like the following:
>>
>> Synopsis (shortened name):
>>     Nevada Globalization (Nevada G11N)
>>
>> Community groups sponsoring the project:
>>     The I18N & L10N community
>>
>> Initial list of participants (in alphabetical order):
>>     Takeshi Asano
>>     Yukie Azuma
>>     Ales Cernosek
>>     Suresh Chandrasekharan
>>     Wenling Chen
>>     Simford Dong (preferred point of contact)
>>     Fuyuki Hasegawa
>>     Petr Hruska
>>     Jan Lana
>>     Dermot Malone
>>     Peter Nugent
>>     Young J. Pintaske
>>     Osamu Sayama
>>     Yong Sun
>>     Ienup Sung
>>     Kenji Tachibana
>>     Yandong Yao
>>
>> Project description:
>>     This project is to provide internationalization and localization of
>>     OpenSolaris Nevada release software to enable input and out of
>>     international characters, and also to allow access of cultural
>>     convention data and appropriate display of cultural elements in
>>     OpenSolaris software.
>>
>> List of related ongoing or proposed projects:
>>     Here are some notable, but not limited to, projects and corresponding
>>     consolidations that this project is related to. Some of them may
>>     provide localizable items to the project for proper localizations
>>     and the project team may provide internationalization related
>>     services in various forms and ways:
>>
>>     ON/Nevada Project (ON)
>>     Java Desktop System: A GNOME-based desktop (Desktop)
>>     SFW (SFW)
>>     Additional information:
>>     The initial participants shown at the above are indeed an initial.
>>     draft. The list will grow to include other community members once
>>     instantiated.
>>
>> Ienup Sung -- on behalf of the I18N & L10N Community -------- Original 
>> Message --------
>> From: Simford Dong <Simford.Dong at Sun.COM>
>> Subject: [i18n-discuss] Project Proposal: Globalization Workspaces
>> To: i18n-discuss at opensolaris.org
>>
>> According to new policy, all projects must be sponsored by
>> at least one Community Group.
>> http://opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/policies/project-instantiation.txt 
>>
>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/contributors/2007-June/000023.html
>>
>> So re-send the project proposal here to get approval.
>>
>>
>>
>> Project Proposal: Globalization Workspaces
>>
>> G11N (Globalization) Consolidation has released a couple of source 
>> tarballs
>> in Sun Download Center last year:
>> http://dlc.sun.com/osol/g11n/downloads/software/current/
>>
>> Community users can download and browse the source codes of G11N 
>> Consolidation.
>> But they can not put back their modifications.
>> Creating a live repository will solve this problem.
>>
>> According to OpenSolaris' policy, we need to create a project firstly
>> before we can set up a live repository for G11N Consolidation.
>> So we propose a new project: Globalization Workspaces.
>>
>> Project Name: Globalization Workspaces
>> Abbreviation: G11N WS
>> Endorsed by:  the I18N and L10N community
>> Purpose:      create and maintain live repositories for G11N 
>> Consolidation
>>
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