On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, John Plocher wrote: > Eric Boutilier wrote: >> Not sure I follow. > > I get the impression that the solution is "let's have an > OS.com *and* an OS.org", but we still don't have a common > understanding of what the problem is. > > I'd rather start with a problem statement that we all > understand, come up with a common vision of what the > world would look like if the problems were all fixed, > and then work on figuring out what needs to be done > to get there. > >> Fair enough. As for me, I still believe that a plan that aims to >> gradually (over a year or two?) phase things so that eventually >> everything falls under one or the other > > Why would this be any better than simply redoing OS.org? > (or am I being dense and you are simply alluding to a shift > in charter from one style of community governance to another?) >
All I'm really talking about I guess is avoiding this scenario: Two years from now we (OpenSolaris Community) have an opensolaris.org site; however, all but one of the sub-communities that one would normally associate with the .org space (e.g. students) are found elsewhere (!) That would be throwing major fuel on fire of all the I-love-to-sound-clever reporters (think The Reg) and the I-love-to-hate-Sun (think Groklaw) bloggers and slashdotters. In the kind of scenario Glynn proposed, the "kernel.org" part of OpenSolaris (or to put it more precisely: the sub-community of the broader OpenSolaris community that comprises coders) should be referred to with a name that conveys what it is (e.g. developer zone, or whatever) not opensolaris.org. Eric _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
