On Tue 18 Mar 2008 at 10:13PM, Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> Glynn Foster wrote:
> >
> > I'd certainly advocate we would only move the groups that wanted to be
> > moved.
> > For example, groups like advocacy and local users groups may be better
> > placed
> > over at .com. I'd agree a thorough analysis of the content on .org would
> > need to
> > be done in terms of figuring out what migration plan, if any, needed to be
> > done.
> hey ...
>
> Generally, I support any way to provide a better platform for
> OpenSolaris user groups to grow and diversify. That's really my main
> focus in Advocacy, after all, so if the UGs get a better deal out of it
> that's cool. I think the recent migration of UGs to projects on .org has
> worked out very well as an interim solution since we never had any plan
> to support UGs on .org initially (they were always part of the
> "Community/Project" structure even though they don't necessarily fit
> either). We should try to offer more support to UGs (resources, wiki
> site functionality, higher profile, etc) -- which, I assume, .com will
> provide.
>
> But UGs are not exclusively users. They are a mix of users and
> developers, and they number about 5K people at this point. Also,
> although many UGs may want to move, I can see some wanting to stay. In
> that case, we'd have UGs living in two different locations (.com and
> .org) with presumably two different offerings. That's not the end of the
> world, of course, but it can be confusing. Another issue to consider is
> governance. If the UGs move to .com, how would we enable those people
> who have earned their Membership in OpenSolaris via Advocacy (since
> Advocacy sponsors the UGs) to keep their voice in governance?
I don't know the answer to the harder questions you raise, such as
governance, but as for where the user group keeps its home page: I don't
see anything (short of breaking off from the existing advocacy
community) which would allow individual user groups to make that
decision for themselves. There's nothing to say that we can't add
a redirect from their existing web property, as needed.
If need be, the advocacy community should vote amongst itself about
where it wants user groups to be web hosted. Put another way, I would
personally strongly *oppose* having user groups split across two sites.
-dp
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