What about those of us who do printing sustaining in house? We have a team internally (most of which are on the printing-discuss alias), im sure we could grub together a few of us to help the open-printing cause?
What do we need to do to become core contributors? If there are some guidelines somewhere I can pass these on to the rest of the team and see if we can drum up some support? Cheers Jonathan * Paul Cunningham (paulcun at talk21.com) wrote: > > > Ghee Teo wrote: >> Paul Cunningham wrote: >>> Peter Tribble wrote: >>>> Paul Cunningham<paulcun at talk21.com> wrote: >>>>> Terminating this community sounds like a very silly thing to do to me. >>>>> I would go for option B. >>>> >>>> In which case you (collectively) need to come up with at least 3 (and in >>>> practice 4 is the workable minimum) people to be the new Core >>>> Contributors and lead printing in the future, and tell the OGB who >>>> they are. Without those names, we can't move forward with Option B. >>> >>> I suppose it will die then. As normal, "Printing out of sight out of >>> mind", until it doesn't work. >> I believe 3 things must happen to keep the community going: >> 1. The existing Core contributors speaks out their intention here and >> satisfied the OGB basic requirements which is reasonable for a community. >> 2. Some active participants in the community step up and take on more >> active role and be a core contributor. >> 3. Each core contributor must be committed to make some form of >> contributions either in discussion or direction actively. >> The thought of of "Printing out of sight out of mind" should be not be >> allowed :) >> So Paul, will you consider 2 and 3 ? >> I am putting my name forwards as a core contributor, should the existing >> 'active' contributors want to take me on. > > You get a 'yes' from me > > Paul > >> So let the discussion continue! > > > >>>> >>>>> Peter Tribble wrote: >>>>>> The Printing community has less than the required minimum of >>>>>> 3 Core Contributors to govern its affairs and, according to the >>>>>> OpenSolaris >>>>>> constitution, should be terminated. The OpenSolaris Governing Board >>>>>> can >>>>>> deal with the situation by: >>>>>> A) Terminating the community >>>>>> B) Designating at least 3 new Core Contributors in order to >>>>>> revitalize the community, or >>>>>> C) Merge this community with another (possibly as a project). >>>>>> >>>>>> If community members step up and make a good case for options >>>>>> B or C within the next 30 days (either by guiding the OGB as to who >>>>>> the new Core Contributors should be, or by advising the OGB what >>>>>> nature of merger would be in the best interests of the affected >>>>>> community) then the OGB will work with the community to take that >>>>>> option forward. Otherwise, the OGB will ask the website community >>>>>> to terminate the community group, following the procedure set forth >>>>>> here: >>>>>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/web/infrastructure-setup/ >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>> >>> > > -- > Paul Cunningham > Software Engineer > Tel: > _______________________________________________ > printing-discuss mailing list > printing-discuss at opensolaris.org -- Jonathan Cowper-Andrewes - Solaris RPE - Approachability. E-mail : jonathan.ca at sun.com : jonathan.ca at sun.itechtool.com Ext : x22907 / (0) 1252 422907 (Direct Dial) Mobile : +44 (0) 7920 477803 Sun Microsystems (UK) Limited Guillemont Park-Bldg. 3 Minley Road Blackwater,camberley GU17 9QG "If you are going through Hell, Keep Going" Winston Churchill
