On Dec 20, 2007 12:10 PM, James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> wrote: > Simon Phipps writes: > > > > On Dec 20, 2007, at 16:51, James Carlson wrote: > > > The committee chartered by the OGB is responsible for providing some > > > way to review changes to the common areas of the web site. I don't > > > think _anyone_ is expecting it to generate that content on its own. > > > Instead, community groups will be doing that work and then asking the > > > committee for review and approval when that work touches a common > > > area. > > > > Yet it appears from the fact that neither the OGB's star chamber nor > > Given that it hasn't met yet, and thus hasn't had a chance to meet in > secret or any other way, it seems a bit extreme to be calling that > committee a "star chamber." > > > the website CG's CCs have content roles that the OGB expects all CG > > content to be in perfect for-publication condition from its > > originators. Further, it seems to be anticipated that all non-text > > elements and non-CG-originated materials will be supplied by > > polymaths in other CGs. > > If there's non-community-originated material, then I'd question > whether it belongs on opensolaris.org at all.
Obviously, there must be some sanity in this. Sun provided almost all of the material that our website has on it. Even if you say that they contributed that through their employees acting as community members, there is some of that content that is arguably Sun's alone (such as trademarks, logos, marketing material, Solaris Express related items, binary blobs for OpenSolaris, etc.). Throwing out everything that is "non-community-originated" would leave us with not a whole lot. So then, what criteria is used to determine whether something is "non-community-originated" and if so, what criteria is used to determine whether to keep it? Part of the problem I see in this review board is that Sun has the full right to control marketing materials related to their trademark that are outside the scope of fair use. This means, for example, that if they decide that there should be a new OpenSolaris logo for the OpenSolaris trademark, they have the full right to do that. If Sun does make a new logo, who gets the say over whether it goes to our website, etc.? The current materials are certainly strictly controlled by Sun. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
