Eric Boutilier wrote:
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Stephen Lau wrote:
I still maintain that identity and 'creating a mark' are not issues
that should involve the OGB. The OGB should be about governance,
not a generic leadership board. These sorts of things are best left
to people who are either interested or best-equipped to drive it:
and in our community, that is the Advocacy Community.
If people still maintain that it should be an OGB decision, then as
an OGB member, I move that we delegate this to the Advocacy
Community. I'm no expert at figuring out what the best way is to
form logos/marks, how long it takes to do them, create them, or
select them.
The model that I envisage of how it should work is:
- ogb asks advocacy to go and do this
- advocacy goes and does it, comes back with a result
- ogb says "thank you" and gives it a stamp of approval.
In other words, the advocacy group does all of the "hard work"
but it should still need to be ratified by the OGB.
I'm in the other camp. That is, the camp that feels it's best if
Community Group decisions -- even major ones -- do not, by default,
call for OGB ratification. I like, for example, the Project
Insantiation spec which says that although Community Groups must notify
the OGB when they (the CG) has approved a new project, getting OGB
blessing is not required. Admittely, a prerequisite of this philosophy
is healthy, active, aware, and engaged Community Groups. In this case,
fortunately, that's clearly not an issue.
Does a community group have the power to decide that a monetary
prize is awarded to whoever comes up with the winner?
And further to that, does the community group have the power to
award that kind of prize in OpenSolaris's name?
Or to put it differently, if such a decision was made by the community
and activity understaken that this would happen, who would sign
the cheque for the prize winner on behalf of OpenSolaris?
Someone from the OGB or someone else?
From the very start of this, my position has been that getting this
to properly motivate people requires a competition with a prize at
the end and that for this reason it requires more thought than the
community "just doing it."
And yes, I feel that some kind of prize or reward is essential, otherwise
we don't stand a very good chance of getting the right result unless we
fluke it and someone already is or someone knows someone who'll do
it for free. "It" in this case being a professionally designed logo or
cartoon'd mascot.
Darren
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