Here is an *excellent opportunity* to contribute... If any of you are interested, respond to the thread at advocacy-discuss.
cheers Shiv ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jim Grisanzio <jim.grisan...@sun.com> Date: Jul 30, 2007 7:51 PM Subject: [advocacy-discuss] Proposal: Community Maintainer of opensolaris.org News Page To: advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org hey ... I've been talking with Patrick Finch, and we've come up with a good idea that we'd like to propose to the Advocacy CG -- we are looking for someone (or maybe a small team) to maintain the top level news page on opensolaris.org: http://opensolaris.org/os/news/ From a mechanical standpoint, this is easy. You just post a link, a date, and a few sentences of summary and you're done. However, from an informational standpoint, it's more challenging. It involves research and editorial judgment. It's a big deal, and it's an opportunity for some people to contribute substantially to the community and website. The Advocacy Community Group is now responsible for this news page, and we think it can be maintained in an interesting way if we take an international approach. The Advocacy CG has more reach globally than any other CG on opensolaris.org since we sponsor about 50 User Group Projects with about 3,500 people in a couple dozen countries. That's not a bad start. And since OpenSolaris is clearly growing to embrace general users and more levels of developers, global communications and international relations are more important now than ever before. And this trend will only increase. Also, that news page on opensolaris.org has always only pointed to English language news. That's fine since the majority of developers are talking English, but there are hundreds of millions of uses who are getting involved in our business who have chosen a different language and we really ought to point to some of their stuff. So, the news page should have Russian, French, Czech, English, Chinese, Spanish, and all sorts of languages all over it all day every day. It should be /the/ place to go for news about OpenSolaris. It should have things that Google can't find, and it should be generated from the perspective of the OpenSolaris Community itself. I'm not talking about just posting some obvious news links; I'm talking about providing an international editorial service that people grow to trust so that anyone anywhere can get an accurate global snapshot of what's going on with OpenSolaris around the world. So, this is what we have in mind for discussion: - Maintainers become leaders in the Advocacy CG. - Maintainers get edit rights to news: http://opensolaris.org/os/news/ - Maintainers manage the page and get their names posted at the top. - Maintainers provide summaries and editorial comment about news. - Maintainers must have good judgment when posting/summarizing articles: articles just bashing OpenSolaris are not helpful, whereas articles expressing reasonable criticisms are, and our editorial response is just as important as the choice to link in the first place. - English language news is posted in English and non-English news is posted with native language summaries. - Maintainers set their own schedule and procedures for acquiring news (as long as it's based on engaging the OpenSolaris Community). - Maintainers write/publish an editorial policy for discussion outlining what news qualifies to be cited and reviewed. - Maintains need the support of the community to be Maintainers. That's the basic idea, but nothing is set in stone. If anyone is interested, let's all talk about it. There is still some stuff to figure out ... Jim -- http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris _______________________________________________ advocacy-discuss mailing list advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss
