We have four community proposals on this list now: * Solaris x86 drivers * Chinese users * Approachability * Laptops
I'm clear on the Approachability proposal, the feedback was good, so we're opening it. I'm not as clear on the Chinese users community, but I'm ok with opening that community as well. I think the original thread got split into two lists and it's difficult to follow. It seems focused on education and marketing for China, and I didn't see anyone object.
On Laptops and Solaris x86 drivers, I see some ways of combining those two (and potentially more) into one community. I'm thinking about the user group community I formed, which now has about 10 individual groups and three more in the queue. So, one community with 10 groups, not 10 individual communities. The effect is similar, but it's much easier to find user groups if you simply look in the one meta user group community. Each user group has its own mail list, and we use a meta ug-discuss list to communicate among groups. In theory, anyway. We're still getting going. A better example, probably, is the JDS and KDE experience. We had a proposal for a JDS community, but after some good discussion the suggestion was made to open one Desktop community with JDS and KDE. That seems to have worked out pretty well, too. Could we consider the same type of arrangement with Laptops and Solaris x86 drivers? Perhaps there are even more elements that would fit within that combined community?
To clarify the "community proposal" process we are doing here: when people started asking for new communities after the launch, I suggested that we have a simple process where a community member would post to the discuss list some information about the proposed community, it's goals, scope, participants, etc. We didn't have a formal governance process in place, so a quick public proposal of a new community seemed reasonable. It would serve to give the community notice that this was going on, it would encourage debate about the community so perhaps others would want to get involved, and it could also serve as a way to make new connections that would either expand or better focus the new community. If no one really objects, the community would be opened and hopefully the community leaders would consider some of the community feedback. That's pretty much it.
Of course, when the governance is ratified that document will drive this process as well as clarify the definition of what a community is.
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