On Wed, 14 May 2008, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Randy Fishel wrote:
> > I would like to propose starting a Power Management Community. The
> > intention is to coalesce fragmented power management discussion and
> > work into a single community.
> >
> > The proposal can be found here:
> >
> > http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Power_Management_Community_Group_Proposal_2008
>
> The OGB discussed this Monday, and had 3 questions before approving:
>
> 1) Why a community instead of a project?
Primarily, because it would never be a single project. There is a
larger desire to coordinate power management work, instead of having
bits (possibly conflicting bits) scattered all over the place. And it
is also difficult for developers/users to know where they should go to
address their specific problems or needs. The community could well be
considered an umbrella, or meta-project, as one goal is the creation
of projects to solve specific needs, but that grouping doesn't exist
(yet).
>
> 2) Which of the 6 initial core contributors will be your Facilitator?
That would be me (Randy Fishel).
>
> 3) Have you discussed the move of the Suspend-Resume project from the Laptop
> community to your community with the Laptop Community Group?
>
> (As Randy is one of the two "leaders" listed on the Suspend-Resume
> project page, I think we can assume he got his own approval from the
> project to move, but the previous sponsoring community should also
> have a say.)
>
As it turns out, the Suspend/Resume project is an OS project that is
only endorsed by the Laptop community. The project leaders (2)
informally agreed that it could be part of the Power Management
community, but like the Tesla project, the leaders/contributors will
be polled after the Power Management community is formed to determine
if they should migrate to this community, or if they should just be
endorsed by the community.
---- Randy
