On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 12:02:46PM -0700, Darren.Reed at sun.com wrote: > It's inline with what I expected which is why in the original > email I cc'd the OGB because unless they have delegated > control over this to the advocacy forum, advocacy-discuss > has no authority to make any decisions. Point here being > that there is no "advocacy community", heck there isn't > even an "opensolaris" community for "opensolaris-discuss" > to belong to, for there to be any leaders within so we have > to fall back to the OGB.
Mailing lists don't make decisions, Community Groups (and specifically their Core Contributors) do. The Advocacy CG, which as Steve pointed out is new, is completely empowered to make decisions for itself. That includes selection of one or more mascots, slogans, etc. for use in its own efforts to promote OpenSolaris. Like Steve, I see reason neither for the OGB to be involved directly nor for us to explicitly delegate this as a community-wide decision when it's not. The Advocacy CG isn't choosing a mascot for OpenSolaris but for itself and its own uses. It's free to do that. What does opensolaris-discuss has to do with any of this? Are you asserting that Groupless mailing lists should be abolished, or that the at-large community should somehow take "ownership" of them, or something else? I'd like to understand what actionable concern you're bringing before the OGB here. > There have been lots of ideas and rationales about what is > good or bad, and when someone said "shark" (specifically And this same damned discussion has been going for almost 3 years now. I'm wholly supportive of the Advocacy Group's efforts to promote OpenSolaris and if they believe a mascot is an important aspect of that then I wish them the best of success with it. But for the sake of those of us who don't care to see hundreds of messages about the pros and cons of this or that mascot or the dire need for more artwork, please keep this topic off ogb-discuss. -- Keith M Wesolowski "Sir, we're surrounded!" FishWorks "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!"
