On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com>wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 3:51 PM, John Plocher <john.plocher at gmail.com> > wrote: > > This great idea has been raised several times in the past; it seems > > that while the spirit is willing, the flesh is weak... > > > > Glynn used to do a lot of work putting together an OpenSolaris > > newsletter that captured the threads going on in the various groups; > > while it was greatly appreciated, it *did* take an enormous amount of > > effort to produce. Peter talked about getting the various group > > facilitators to produce some sort of status report that could be > > incorporated into regular reports, but the ball never really got > > rolling. > > Indeed. We managed to get together a small report for CommunityOne. > > I attempted to get together an end-of-year report. Needless to say, the > response was underwhelming. I got a grand total of two replies (and > thanks to them for replying at all) which pointed me to useful material I > could use. That was it. (I had about half-a-dozen of my own items to > add.) > > It's still an open item. The fact that groups don't report is shameful. > I think that with a regular schedule this could get more and more community attention after each report. There could be a few reminders on opensolaris-discuss that the deadline for submissions are due too. In the beginning I expect various project would be shy or not really know what to write about. As time passes and individual reports are submitted, these would provide a reference for other projects on what to put in their reports. IMHO, reports don't need to be lengthy. Just a very short overview, the last developments, what's in the radar for the next few months before the next Community Report and perhaps a list of 2-3 tasks and if they need volunteers. Even a "nothing happening, need volunteers" would be OK. > > > The fallback position (that everyone needs to subscribe to every alias > > just to see what is going on) is, unfortunately, the best of all > > worlds; the worst, of course, is that people don't bother, and we end > > up with silos of disconnected effort... > > > > Anything you can do to help us communicate and evangelize our efforts > > would be greatly appreciated! > As a start I'm thinking we need a web form for the submissions and it can send e-mails for each submission. I would happily aggregate, review, get clarification from the submitters (where needed) and compile the final report for review. We could refine this process if it start demanding too much hand work. If the OGB thinks it's better if an OGB member engage the community for sending the reports, communicating the schedule and then sending the final report, I'm all for it. Please let me know your thoughts on this. -- Giovanni -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/attachments/20100323/1208bc16/attachment.html>
