On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Brian Gupta wrote: >> Being as there is no opensun.org <http://opensun.org>, opensolaris. org >> will have to do. > > There was no opensparc.net until they started it - just because no other > website exists now, doesn't mean one can't be started for a simple $15 > domain registration. (Though as I've explained to those who asked, the > hard questions are community governance and the such - do we want to make > all Sun products going open source have to do the same work we've done > over the past three years or just join us and follow our leadership and > decisions?)
Opensolaris.org needs to be open and inviting to all related opensource projects IMHO - provided that the project shares the opensolaris.org values (engineering excellence, blah, blah). Anything that "forces" opensource projects to look/go elsewhere is ultimately Bad News for opensolaris.org. The ultimate expression of this would be that the opensolaris.org (site) would degenerate into a bunch of "pointers" (URLs) to a bunch of meaningless URLs - which would diminish the visibility and importance of opensolaris.org - even as a "brand". [pardon the use of a marketing term] A framework to support this type of project that might work well would be .... but wait .... there is already a well known framework that is widely recognized and successful: the Apache Incubator - see http://incubator.apache.org/. I would suggest that emulating this framework would be a great solution to transition these types of projects into the OpenSolaris.Org umbrella. Regards, Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. al at logical-approach.com Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134 Timezone: US CDT OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member - Apr 2005 to Mar 2007 http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/ogb_2005-2007/
