Hi James, Welcome to the group and thanks for your interest to represent the Databases community, much appreciated!
The role of a community group facilitator is to ensure that the record of the contributor and core contributor grants for your community is kept up-to-date with the OGB Secretary. In the case of the databases community, there are no grants so far, so you're role, should you choose to accept it, would be to help us understand who are the core contributors in your community group. To do this, you could provide a list of names of the people who have contributed code to your community and to the cluster agent project that the databases community sponsors. If you don't know their names, you could start with the list of Leaders for your community group, for example. This list of contributors and core contributors should be discussed on databases-discuss, voted on by the Leaders (if they are still actively participating), and sent to the ogb-discuss mailing list to be added to the opensolaris.org user database. Background: Specific criteria for becoming a contributor or core contributor varies by community group, but, in general, Contributors have demonstrated more than two significant contributions that support the goals of your community over a period of time. Core Contributors, in general, have contributed more than three significant contributions over a longer period of time, participate regularly, agree to vote in the annual OGB election, and have binding votes in community group decisions. Facilitators generally also are core contributors who are responsible for voting in community group decisions and the annual election. Because your community hasn't been through these formalities before, this might seem like a lot to do. But, I think we could bootstrap an initial list of contributors quickly if you would manage a discussion on databases-discuss. Here is an example thread: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=333063񑔇 After that, the role shouldn't require more than 1 hour per month (to read facilitation-discuss for any new voting policies, pass them down to your community, and to lead any discussions of new databases community contributors as we approach the yearly election). There are no travel requirements or travel expectations for the role. But, if you'll be at CommunityOne in San Francisco in June, let us know, because OGB will be there too and would be happy to talk with you more. We host an open concall meeting every Thursday, feel free to dial in if you want to talk live about any of this: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/meeting_minutes/call_details/ When the Web community rolls out the new authentication app at end of June, we'll have a way to officially mark you as the databases community group facilitator, but until then, I would simply add your name to the active facilitators table on the facilitation project web page. Regards, Michelle On 05/13/09 08:23, James Gates wrote: > Hi, > > I'm interested in becoming the facilitator for the Databases CG. > I'm a staff engineer in the Solaris RPE (sustaining) org. and also > RPE's technology manager for databases - Which essentially means I'm > responsible for the maintenance of database products bundled with > Solaris & Open Solaris (PostgreSQL is our main source of work). I've > worked for Solaris RPE for 9 years, prior to that I worked for Oracle > (UK) for 5 years. > > I'd like to know a little more about the responsibilities & tasks > expected of the facilitator role, an estimate of the amount of time > the role takes, and if there are any travel requirements/expectations. > > Thanks. > > > Michelle Olson wrote: >> Hello Databases CG members, >> >> The new OGB-sponsored Facilitation project is an effort to improve >> overall annual election processes and communication. >> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/facilitation/ >> >> We launched on April 22, and we're doing outreach to community groups >> for which there is no known 'Facilitator' who coordinates contributor >> and core contributor grants. If you are, or would like to be, the >> Facilitator for the Databases CG, please join facilitation-discuss >> and introduce yourself. >> >> To subscribe, send blank email to >> facilitation-discuss-subscribe at opensolaris.org. >> >> We'll keep you updated on information related to voting and the >> election that you can pass on to your community. It is low-traffic >> and we have about 15 facilitators on list so far. >> >> Regards, >> Michelle Olson >> OGB Chair >> _______________________________________________ >> databases-discuss mailing list >> databases-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/databases-discuss >
