Roman Strobl wrote: > Hi Jim, > > apologies for my ignorance, but I do not understand why a +1 vote is > needed for someone to establish a user group. hey ...
The voting is not to establish a UG, per say. It's to ask the Advocacy Community for a Project space and a mailing list. The decision to actually form the group is a local one, and people can go to Google or Yahoo and get a list and/or host their own site, etc. But we have a governance system on OpenSolaris where Communities sponsor/endorse Projects in a hierarchal relationship. And since user groups are really Projects on our site and live inside the Advocacy Community, they have to ask for the infrastructure and the community gets a say. We realized that the bar was way too high for user groups, but we didn't really have much choice, so as a compromise we just made the proposal process very simple and only required one +1 vote. Real development projects generally require more +1 votes, according to the Constitution. But really, the Communities can specify what they want at this point. We discussed this at length in Advocacy last year when we updated/simplified our own processes. Governance http://opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/governance/ User Group Process Inside Advocacy http://opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/usergroups/ug-leaders/ User Groups http://opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/usergroups/ Jim -- http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/
