Brian Nitz wrote:
For example, think of an outsider trying to create and integrate a set
of educational software into an educational OpenSource distribution.
Is there an educational opensource community? No.
How do I create an educational opensource community? (I'd guess you
have to be a voting member and/or contributor to some other community???)
How do I become a voting member? (It's somewhere in this thread, be
recognized as a core contributer to some community) but since this
proposal doesn't match any existing community, I'm still on the outside...)
O.K. Now I have my community, how do I create a project? (It's
described in legalese in the constitution, but really, how do I create a
project?)
I understand that most technical people who really want their project
accepted in the OpenSource community will persist until some insider who
thinks they understand the process du jour sponsors the project and
pushes it through. But this early in OpenSolaris's growth we really
afford to alienate any potential technical contributors who can just as
easily decide to not bother porting their solution to OpenSolaris and
instead port it to one of several hundred GNU/Linux distributions?
+1, I couldn't agree more.
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Alan Burlison
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