Eric Boutilier wrote:
> This wouldn't happen -- IMO -- if an opensolaris.com site existed
> without an opensolaris.org site standing in contrast to it.
If it was done poorly, yes, this could be a problem.
It doesn't have to be done poorly, though. Look at the
MySQL .com and .org sites, one for those who want to use
it in a commercial setting and the other for the development
and enthusiast community.
The current OS.o site is complicated by the fact that we
have mixed up the developer and user roles. Alan mentioned
that there are 100,000 registered users on the site. I'd
put money on the fact that most of them are not at all
interested in becoming OS.o developers per se, but rather
are users, sysadmins and curious people whosimply want to
learn more about what we arre doing.
Rather than inventing a solution and then trying to fit
everything into it, I'd rather start with a high level
understanding of the various target roles that we (Sun
*and* the community) are trying to address, group them
together based on similarity, and then figure out how
best to address their needs.
Here is what I came up with:
Developers:
OpenSolaris Core development - the people, processes and
governance related to the development and evolution of
the core OpenSolaris consolidations themselves. I'd
put ON, X, Admin, Install and some of SFW here; I don't
know a lot about cluster and storage, but I suspect they
fit in here as well. (I think of these as Consolidations)
OpenSolaris application and add-on content development -
the people, processes and governance related to the
development and evolution of optional/add-on/3rd party
OpenSolaris applications (some of SFW, Blastwave,
SunFreeware, ...)
OpenSolaris Distro development - the people, processes
and governance related to the development and evolution of
the various OpenSolaris distributions
Somewhere in the continuum between developers and consumers
OpenSolaris Special Interest Groups - discussion forums
and meeting places for people who share a common themed
interest in the development activities happening in the
OpenSolaris community. SIGs have some role to play in
the creation of new development projects, roadmaps and
other best practice guidelines and policies
OpenSolaris User Groups - Geographically organized groups
of OpenSolaris users that value exchanging information,
issues and solutions amongst themselves. User groups
have some role to play in outreach, community growth,
evangelism etc.
Consumers:
OpenSolaris Users and Customers - People and organizations
that wish to learn about, try, and use OpenSolaris in some
way.
OpenSolaris Marketplace - selling and buying products and
services related to OpenSolaris
While I'd like to see this all done together on a single web
site, I can also see how a .org site aimed at the developers
and a .com site aimed at users (with the SIGs and UGs fitting
in to one, the other, or both as their needs dictate) could
also work.
-John
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