The OpenSolaris election process starts in about a month, and
thus now is a good time for us to review who from the X Window
System community should have contributor & core contributor
status.
Under the OpenSolaris constitution, there are 3 main levels of
participation:
1) Participant - automatically granted to everyone who registers
on OpenSolaris.org or joins a mailing list.
2) Contributor - granted by a community group such as ours,
permanently recognizing someone who has "substantively contributed
toward accomplishing the tasks of that Community Group".
3) Core Contributor - granted by a community group such as ours,
recognizing that someone is currently "an active and sustained
contributor" - grant lasts for 2 years and may be renewed by
the community upon expiration.
Contributions may be in any form recognized by the community, including
coding, helping users on mailing lists, writing documentation, etc.
In terms of the elections, any Participant, Contributor or Core
Contributor can run for the OGB, but only Core Contributors can
nominate people for the OGB elections or vote in them.
The current list for the X community is:
Core Contributors:
alanc Alan Coopersmith Expires 2009-02-24
jacotton Jay Cotton Expires 2009-02-24
skk Stuart Kreitman Expires 2009-02-24
Contributors:
bochnig Martin Bochnig
moinakg Moinak Ghosh
Anyone who is a Participant already is eligible to become a
Contributor or Core Contributor if the existing Core Contributors
vote to add them (approval requires at least 3 votes in favor,
and no votes against).
For our community, the primary areas of activity are the FOX project,
and the xwin-discuss mailing list, but those are not the only areas
to which contributions can be made.
So if you've read this far, now comes the question - who should we
name as a Contributor or Core Contributor for our community group?
I'll take nominations for the next week, and then ask the three
existing Core Contributors to vote, and ask the nominees if they
wish to accept (it's up to them to accept, we can't force it on
them).
To start the ball rolling, I nominate:
- For his work on Xorg drivers for SPARC systems, Martin Bochnig
for Core Contributor
- For his work on the FOX packages for Indiana and in filling in
the missing pieces of the FOX gate, Moinak Ghosh for
Core Contributor
- For his work in helping users with Xorg configuration & nvidia
driver issues on xwin-discuss, solarisx86 and
various other forums, John M. Martin as Contributor
Who else should we nominate? (you don't have to be a contributor to
ask us to consider yourself or anyone else - just send mail
either to me directly or to the list)
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
