That all sounds good, so... how do I get a community started?  I haven't been 
contacted yet. :)

Who has the power to put it on the web site?

Thanks again,

Mark

> * Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-12 03:35]:
> > On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 10:22, Alan DuBoff wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 11 January 2006 09:58 am, Mark Sweeney wrote:
> > I see communities as being the long term high level thing and 
> projects> being the shorter term or smaller scope things.
> > 
> > I don't really care either way but it does beg why we have both 
> projects> and communities.
> 
>  Communities are the social groups representing areas of interest
>  within the entirety of the OpenSolaris space, and will have some 
> kind  of representation in the governance process (or they do in 
> the current
>  draft).  As a result, the preliminary process for creating community
>  requires a reasonable amount of consensus, including a CAB 
> endorsement.
>  Projects are collaborative efforts that produce objects (code 
> changes,  specific documents, graphics, etc.).  Projects will have 
> code  repositories, committers, etc.; communities won't.  The 
> process for
>  requesting a project requires only two community members to agree.
> 
>  (The infrastructure requirements of the two groupings overlap, but
>  having only one type of grouping leads to a very complex "leader"
>  console that looked forbodingly difficult to implement well and to
>  document completely.)
> 
>  I think your duration point will be accurate in general.
> 
>  - Stephen
> 
> 
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