Greetings Friends,
We have been brainstorming a little bit recently about the direction of
a Wiki being integrated into the OpenSolaris Structure.
Currently we have a brief option listing at
http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OpenSolarisWiki
Which any volunteer/community-member has a right to comment on.
I will be proposing a community sponsored project in the immediate
future and hope to gather a few more volunteers, a few more comments,
and perhaps a the support of the tools community.
I can't even begin to name off what communities and projects would be
positively effected by this, I believe they all will be.
To get to the point.
This project would allow easier management of Communities, whether
community or Sponsor -sponsored (Such as Sun).
It would give Project, Community, and Portal groups easier maintenance
of their own pages and contributed information.
I also hope this would allow any registered user to contribute to the
success of OpenSolaris, whether from the contribution of documentation,
suggestions, or simply help with the migration of vast information which
has never been consolidated into one place.
I feel this is something the community should have input in, and not
just internal Sun staff. The Sun staff should take part in the
community, not have the community take part in Sun.
Project Goals (so far)
1) Place a wiki on the domain, or a subdomain of Opensolaris.org
2) Integrate wiki with OpenSolaris's current user database.
3) Migrate existing Community, Project, and Portal pages.
I am in the process of tossing a wiki page up on Genunix, which will
consolidate ideas towards the proposal. I will be tossing a link up
later. We've brought up lots of details in the past couple weeks, which
can be repeated if those users feel they wish to repeat (I am not going
to quote anyone without permission). I'll let you guys elaborate further
if you wish.
I have also cc'ed the docs community, because they are just one
community which would benefit from this structural change.
Feel free to speak your mind.
Regards,
Christopher Frost
