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OpenSolaris Community: Advocacy Community Group

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Welcome to the OpenSolaris Advocacy Community

Come join us and help celebrate Software Freedom Day on the 20th September! Participate in an existing event, or organize your own!

Upcoming Conferences


OpenSolaris World Tour
13 Cities, September 2008 to May 2009



OpenSolaris Storage Summit
Santa Clara, California, September 21

French OSUG Conference
Toulouse, France, October 13

Open Source World Conference
Málaga, Spain, October 20-22

The first Polish OpenSolaris Conference
Szczecin, Poland, October 24-25

Images of OpenSolaris

A slideshow of over 6,000 images of OpenSolaris
community members around the world. Take some pics,
post them on flickr, and tag them OpenSolaris!


The Advocacy Community exists to help people around the world get involved in the OpenSolaris community. We welcome participation from people of all languages and cultures and people with all levels of technical and non-technical skills. Everyone has something to contribute.

In our community you will find OpenSolaris user groups, presentations, news, (here, here) articles, newsletters, blogs (here, here, here), technical & non-technical content, videos and podcasts, events and conferences, community metrics, swag, badges & buttons, and a variety of other promotional projects. And if we don't have it, we'll try to link to it. Over time the Advocacy CG will sponsor both technical and non-technical projects but our focus will remain on engaging users around the world. Also, over time, the editing of the Advocacy pages will become easier to manage as opensolaris.org grows to support customized wiki functionality. Currently, we sponsor all the user groups, the BeleniX user list, the trademark project, the mentoring project, the OpenSolaris DevCon lists, and the OpenSolaris community awards program list. Pretty much everything in that mix is geared toward users.

We are just getting started, though. We grew out of the merger of three previous OpenSolaris communities -- Marketing, User Groups, and Immigrants -- and during that process we migrated all the OSUGs to individual projects. Links to the entire discussion about that merger (including links to former list archives) and the creation of the Advocacy CG can be found on the Advocacy merger archive page. Also, our hope is to work closely with all the OpenSolaris distributions as they mature and as we all build a global user community around OpenSolaris technologies.

Join the Advocacy CG: 3 Steps

  1. Register on opensolaris.org: https://www.opensolaris.org/register.jspa
  2. Sign up to the advocacy-discuss mail list: sign up, archives, web forum
  3. Participate

Values & Governance

Our defining values are simple: We embrace and promote the OpenSolaris Values, and we are a community group in good standing under the OpenSolaris Constitution.

Facilitator

Jim Grisanzio (jim dot grisanzio at sun dot com). The Advocacy facilitator is responsible for managing any voting issues and notifying the secretary of the OGB regarding changes to the contributor and/or core contributors lists. The facilitator also reports to the OGB when needed and communicates back to Advocacy about any OGB-related issues. The role of CG facilitators is outlined in section 7.5 of the OpenSolaris Constitution.

Contributors, Core Contributors, & Leaders

The Advocacy CG contributors and core contributors are all listed here. You can also search/sort under the “grants” tab at http://vote.opensolaris.org/ for a list of Advocacy contributors as well as all the OpenSolaris contributors. For an explanation of contributors and core contributors and voting procedures, see the OpenSolaris Constitution. To make matters a bit confusing, there is also a set of "leaders" that have edit rights to the Advocacy CG pages, and they may or may not also be contributors and core contributors. That's a governance-website bug. We'll get it fixed. Also, when the opensolaris.org infrastructure expands to support wiki functionality (see restructuring of opensolaris.org), the various site roles will be much easier to explain and track.

Current projects and/or lists/pages sponsored by the Advocacy CG

We sponsor many projects, and we are interested in sponsoring many more. Here is a current list:

Voting Procedures, User Group Proposals, Project Proposals

The Advocacy CG voting procedures are based on the OpenSolaris Constitution and the OpenSolaris Governing Board's Project Instantiation Policy and cover the following areas: Participant, Contributor, Core Contributor, User Group Proposals, Project Proposals. If any of this is confusing -- and it most certainly is -- just ask on advocacy-discuss (sign up, archives, forum).
  • Participant: Just register on opensolaris.org and advocacy-discuss and participate in community conversations and events.

  • Contributor: To earn contributor status you need to be nominated by a contributor or core contributor. You also need a total of two +1 votes and no -1 votes. Only core contributors can vote, and voting is open on advocacy-discuss for five days. The initial nomination is considered a +1 vote. After the voting, the new contributor must respond to the thread and accept his or her grant.

  • Core Contributor: To earn core contributor status you need to be nominated by a core contributor. You also need a total of three +1 votes with no -1 votes. Only core contributors can vote, and voting is open on advocacy-discuss for five days. The initial nomination is considered a +1 vote. After the voting, the new core contributor must respond to the thread and accept his or her grant.

  • User Groups: To get user group infrastructure (a project space and mailing list) on opensolaris.org, you need to send a proposal to advocacy-discuss for approval. You need one +1 vote and no -1 votes. Only Core Contributors can vote, and voting is open on advocacy-discuss for five days. Write your proposal in the following format:

    • Name of your OpenSolaris User Group
    • Two or more initial participants listed with their OpenSolaris user IDs
    • A one paragraph description of the group -- including location (City, State, Country), activities planned, related organizations, etc. 
  • Projects: Project proposals follow the OGB's Project Instantiation Policy. Voting follows the Constitution (Section 8.4). You need three +1 votes and no -1 votes. Only core contributors can vote, and voting is open on advocacy-discuss for five days. Write your proposal in the following format (which is edited slightly from the OGB's instantiation policy):

    • Project name
    • A short synopsis of the project's purpose.
    • A list of community groups sponsoring the project.
    • A list of participants (with their OpenSolaris user IDs) on the initial project team, including a single individual who will serve as the leader or preferred point of contact.
    • A one paragraph description of the project for an audience of participants who may not be familiar with the area in which work is proposed. This should contain a brief description of the problem(s) the project is expected to solve, and of the manner in which it will do so.
    • A listing of related, ongoing, or proposed projects, including information about any dependencies on or by this project and any duplication of purpose or overlap with other work.
    • Any additional information which may be of interest to prospective project team members and/or consumers of the project's output.
If your proposal is approved, the Advocacy facilitator will set up a project space and mail list. The project will be hidden until it is ready to open with at least a minimum level of content (examples include a welcome message, contact info, meeting location, list and leader info, etc). Only the Advocacy facilitator can actually open a project, so you will be working closely with Jim to get your project and list set up.

As a leader of your new user group or project, it is expected that you will maintain your project space and mail list (filter spam, add/remove names, communicate with the OpenSolaris webmaster and other community members, etc) just as all the other project leads in the OpenSolaris community. Please review the OpenSolaris Website Guidelines and Sun trademarks policy so you are clear about various site issues -- especially the policy around mail list management. For instance, if lists are not used and properly maintained, they can be deleted. Also, please review the Community/Project lead reference so you are familiar with how to manage your project – especially if you will be taking contributions from non-Sun members of the community. And, of course, we all expect that projects within the Advocacy CG follow the open source spirit of transparency and the governing rules specified by the OpenSolaris Constitution.

Join us and get involved! You can find us on advocacy-discuss (sign up, archives, forum).

Page Updated: 8/29/08, Jim Grisanzio

Announcements

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Blogs

jimgris - 96

Sep 8, 3:38 AM

Update OpenSolaris --  [indiana-discuss] pkg.opensolaris.org package repository update (build 96) .

jimgris - Sun and Software Freedom Day

Sep 8, 1:31 AM

Sun is participating in Software Freedom Day on Saturday September 20th. See Glynn Foster's notes to the OpenSolaris User Groups, and also in the OpenSolaris Advocacy Community . Should be cool to ...

jimgris - The Value of the Community

Sep 8, 12:55 AM

Google considered a move to OpenSolaris? All that glitters is not Chrome : "Two years later, Google has yet to broadly embrace OpenSolaris. Google isn't one to take the short-term view on ...

jimgris - Agreeing to Disagree

Sep 7, 4:00 AM

I've been reading some of the essays in Rebooting America . My favorite so far is "Echo Chambers = Democracy" by David Weinberger, who briefly explores the value of people talking to other people ...

jimgris - OpenSolaris Nomikai 090508

Sep 5, 7:29 PM

Some shots from the OpenSolaris Hot Topics Seminar & Nomikai last night in Tokyo.

jimgris - New OpenSolaris Storage Summit Graphic

Sep 5, 4:31 AM

Nice new OpenSolaris Storage Summit graphic. Santa Clara, California. Sept 21, 2008. OpenSolaris Storage Community here . My blog seems to mess up the image, so see the full size graphic here .

jimgris - Baggy Pants and Slippers

Sep 4, 8:09 AM

I met this construction worker on a train one day a while back, and I still can't get over his baggy pants and slippers. He's got a hard hat and some other tools in his bag, but the pants and ...

jimgris - American Reporters Seeking India?

Sep 4, 2:38 AM

Journalist seeking paycheck? Try India : "India is a fascinating country where history is being made in many respects so it is a fertile place for good journalism. Hopefully some of the non-Indian ...

jimgris - Hot Topics and OpenSolaris Nomikai

Sep 3, 11:03 PM

The next OpenSolaris Hot Topics session will be tomorrow night in Tokyo. Desktop development issues and Gnome will be discussed, and then the community will go out for an OpenSolaris nomikai (eat, ...

jimgris - I

Sep 3, 9:11 AM

Fascinating little article about the English word "I" -- On Language: Me, Myself and I -- by Caroline Winter in the New York Times. Really good read. I didn't know where the capital "I" came from. ...

bobn - And now for something completely different

Sep 3, 8:24 AM

The summer is nearly over, the morning temperature was a beautiful 73 degrees (thanks to Gustav) and my daughter has returned to school. That means that it is time to return to work and carry on with ...

fintanr - Amazons EBS

Sep 3, 6:46 AM

Werner Vogels (Amazon's CTO) has a nice post about Amazons Elastic Block Store . Well worth a read. Combined with the recently launched OpenSolaris AMI Catalogs this could be really interesting. And ...

jimgris - TLUG Technical Meeting Sept 13

Sep 2, 12:27 AM

Looking forward to the next Tokyo Linux User Group meeting on September 13th . Stop by if you are in Tokyo.

jimgris - Tokyo2Point0 090108

Sep 1, 11:40 AM

Images from the Tokyo2Point0 gathering tonight . Really enjoyed the NetBeans and Lifestream presentations. And it was great meeting everyone and taking pictures as well.

jimgris - Kernel Code Contributions

Sep 1, 8:18 AM

Cool to see Jürgen Keil, Rainer Orth, and Peter Tribble profiled on the front page of opensolairs.org this week . More names and more contributions to the OS/Net consolidation are listed here . ...

jimgris - Helicopter Rescue

Aug 30, 7:51 PM

Things got loud this morning around here, so I ran outside with my camera and caught the tail end of this helicopter rescue. There is a pretty big road near here where people drive stupidly fast and ...

jimgris - Misaligned

Aug 30, 2:42 AM

This scene is quite common in Tokyo. Now, I realize you'd find old houses and buildings misaligned in any city around the world, but here they build them new this way. It can be charming, of course, ...

jimgris - Storms

Aug 30, 12:46 AM

For the last several weeks -- seems like forever -- we have had some wild storms in Japan. Especially this week. Very impressive  rain and thunder. When will it end?

jimgris - Keeping Up, Staying Involved

Aug 29, 5:35 AM

I've been trying to update the various parts of the community in which I participate about the OGB community reorganization. This is a big deal we are embarking on, and the OGB has to be out there in ...

jimgris - NetBeans Going to Tokyo2Point0

Aug 28, 8:46 PM

NetBeans will be featured at Tokyo2Point0 Monday night . Stop by if you are in the area. Sun Japan engineer Masaki Katakai will lead off talking about building Web apps with the open source IDE, and ...