[advocacy-discuss] [Fwd: [osol-announce] spring cleaning: opensolaris.org]

2009-05-22 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Since Advocacy has about 130 spaces on the site, there is probably a fair amount of clean up we can help with. Jim Original Message Subject:[osol-announce] spring cleaning: opensolaris.org Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 20:55:31 +0900 From: Jim Grisanzio To: opensolari

[advocacy-discuss] [FROSUG] Meeting Thursday May 28th (Thursday)

2009-05-22 Thread Clay Baenziger
-New RSVP system- Please RSVP at: http://playground.eu.sun.com/cgi-bin/frosug/frosug.pl - This month's FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) meeting is on Thursday,

[advocacy-discuss] .ORG Zone page invalid/deleted?

2009-05-22 Thread "C. Bergström"
Aaron Houston wrote: invalid_url.jsp > > _*.ORG Zone*_ > *CommunityOne invites non-profit associations and groups to > participate in the joint CommunityOne / JavaOne pavilion*. Here's the > deal - you promote the conference to your members, and then come to > the event to engage and interact wi

[advocacy-discuss] [request-sponsor] 400th putback

2009-05-22 Thread ольга крыжановская
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Bonnie Corwin wrote: >> On 05/ 5/09 05:18 AM, ? wrote: >>> When was the sponsor program created? How does this number compare to >>> the number of contributions to other operating systems like Linux and >>> FreeBSD? >> >> I

[advocacy-discuss] Advocacy Facilitator Position Open

2009-05-22 Thread Rich Reynolds
Jim, et.al. - I wold love to do this, but I dont meet the base level requirement "the Facilitator is a Core Contributor", I spent 20 years as a Sun/Solaris Advocate as a pre-sales Engineer in the field, as a post-sales Architect in SunPS, and even a stint in the Answer Center as a favor to an

[advocacy-discuss] [request-sponsor] 400th putback

2009-05-22 Thread Shawn Walker
John Plocher wrote: > 2009/5/22 Shawn Walker : >> When it comes down to it, I personally don't find value in comparing the >> value of open source projects based on statistical analysis of >> contributions. The real value in any software is the quality of utility it >> provides to a user. > > Gra

[advocacy-discuss] [request-sponsor] 400th putback

2009-05-22 Thread Shawn Walker
John Plocher wrote: > 2009/5/22 ? : >> Granted, but the number of individual contributions and the total size >> of committed changes is only a fraction of the changes at freebsd.org >> or kernel.org. > > The 400 number is small and misleading - it only covers the community > memb

[advocacy-discuss] [request-sponsor] 400th putback

2009-05-22 Thread John Plocher
2009/5/22 Shawn Walker : > When it comes down to it, I personally don't find value in comparing the > value of open source projects based on statistical analysis of > contributions. ?The real value in any software is the quality of utility it > provides to a user. Granted, but there are others (li

[advocacy-discuss] [request-sponsor] 400th putback

2009-05-22 Thread John Plocher
2009/5/22 ? : > Granted, but the number of individual contributions and the total size > of committed changes is only a fraction of the changes at freebsd.org > or kernel.org. The 400 number is small and misleading - it only covers the community members who are not Sun employees.