On 8/14/10 12:39 AM, John Plocher wrote: >> No motion is required, you already passed it last month: >> http://wiki.genunix.org:8080/wiki/index.php/2010_07_12_OGB_Agenda > The motion you refer to says "Otherwise the OGB will take action at > the August 23 meeting to trigger the clause in the OGB charter that > will return control of the community to Oracle", thus as our last, > completely symbolic act, we need to actually take the action.
Exactly. Its logically absurd to take a motion to resign, given that you've already made the motion to resign. So its just the action of resignation. The normal means for resignation is mail to this list, so essentially all OGB members simply need to send resignations during the meeting and say goodbye to each other. > Contrary to your blog'd assertions, the OGB isn't committing ritual > suicide - it, and the community it was formed to lead are already > dead. It happened when nobody was looking, sometime in the last 15 to > 36 months. OpenSolaris's executive supporters within Sun came down > with a major case of cold feet when Ian came on board and GlennW left; > things deteriorated into a chronic case of apathy when Sun's Board > accepted the Oracle offer in April 2009, and Sun/Oracle's corporate > participation became indistinguishable from rigor-mortis on Feb 6, > 2010. It simply has taken until now for the coroner to talk with the > next of kin and issue a death certificate; today's "announcement" > makes it clear that the family's patriarchs don't want to have > anything to do with us freeloaders. The OGB died when we stabbed Dr Fielding in the back. It has never represented the community (as evidenced by the constant unanimous votes.. the community is never unanimous) nor did it take action beyond constantly clipping its own wings. That is to say, its been doing since January exactly what it had been doing in the years prior. The companies management is out of our hands, the OGB had the ability to act within whatever guidelines it put before itself. I see no reason to blame anyone but ourselves. Ergo, unnecessary ritual suicide. Rather than let Oracle figure out how to eject the governance, the board knifed themselves. Hopefully everyone on the board gets a nice thank you note from Oracle. If there is a silver lining, it may be that all this endless bickering (such as this) will finally be put to rest and we'll all be united as powerless refuges. I know I sound like a bastard, I really don't mean to. It's just a frustrating end to something we've put a lot of time into over the last several years and never gotten the results we needed. There was so much we could have done during the time we had, and I feel like our governance never got off the launch pad. benr. _______________________________________________ ogb-discuss mailing list ogb-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss
