Darren.Reed at Sun.COM wrote: > Sara Dornsife 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. >> >> >> >> There is advocacy community. It is a combination of the User Groups, >> Marketing and Immigrants Communities. The OGB, via Steve Lau, have >> already spoken up and stated that this isn't a decision for the OGB - >> which I wholeheartedly agree with. > > > > If there is such a thing as an "advocacy community" then: > - why isn't it listed on the opensolaris.org website as one of > the communities?
It will be when it opens. In an earlier mail I sent the threads explaining the ongoing merger. > - why aren't there nominated leaders for it? And if there > are, who are they? The leaders of the Advocacy CG are the leaders of the Marketing, UG, and Immigrants communities. > Lets start with seeing these basic issues addressed first. They are. See the several /months/ of conversation links I sent in my previous mail. > It's all well and good to go and create a discussion forum > and declare it a community (seems like a sham to me) Do you have any substantiation for that claim? And why the use of the word "sham" as well? > but > if you want it to at least appear relevant within the opensolaris > sphere then it needs to be listed on our communities page > and have leaders appointed. It will be when it opens. In an earlier mail I sent the threads explaining the ongoing merger. As I said earlier, if you don't feel the Advocacy CG is a true community yet, that's fine. The Marketing Community is still open (not fully merged yet). They have discussions on advocacy-discuss. Jim -- Jim Grisanzio http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris
