OGB 23-day rollup
An update after 23 days of the OGB 2009-2010 term. In my campaign platform, I said I would focus on outreach, planning, implementation and recognition. So, here is the latest in each area:
Outreach Status
There are several ways to measure my success around the outreach goal. So far, I would say I'm not getting a passing grade yet. While we've had a couple of additional community members join the 3 OGB meetings we've hosted, I'm not satisfied with such low turnout for our meetings. We haven't had the Sun executive liaison to a meeting yet either, so this is an area I'll work on. I'm pleased to say that we have agreed upon a set of slides for a short 15 minute presentation at the first 2009 OpenSolaris Townhall meeting, to be held tomorrow morning. I look forward to addressing the group and will count this event as progress (however small) on outreach.
Planning Status
My original goal around planning was to at least map out the activities for the year in the first month. We have a great start with the OGB Calendar and as we build more trust as a board, I think we'll make more use of it and increase transparency for the greater community.
Implementation Status
I've taken leadership on the Facilitation Project, with the goal of implementing the Facilitator role across the community groups. For many years I've felt this was a missing piece that could enable the community to function more smoothly by simply having a mailing list with subscribers from every community group with whom OGB could communicate. I'm thrilled at the positive response to the project proposal and I look forward to working with the facilitators to learn together and improve communication from OGB out to all the community groups through trusted members of those groups.
Recognition Status
As a community group, OGB has not used contributor grants to recognize people who help out with governance. I've long used the contributor grant for this purpose in other communities and I'll continue to write about this and think about how we can recognize those who contribute to the goals of OGB without using the contributor grant. Please send along your suggestions. I'm not getting a passing grade here yet, but I do recognize the efforts of the following community members for their work all last year to help us achieve the OGB goals:
- David Chieu facilitation of Laptop CG grants
- Vincent R Wang facilitation of Device Driver CG grants
- William Kucharski facilitation for PowerPC and Emerging Platforms
- Ceri Davies facilitation of Documentation CG grants
- Alan Burlison membership management application work
- Darren Moffat facilitation of Security CG grants
- Nicolas Solter facilitation of HA-Cluster CG grants
- Nicolas Dorfsman consistent feedback on guiding documents
- Bonnie Corwin liaison support and website database expertise
- Liane Praza facilitation of SMF CG grants
- Sunay Tripathi facilitation of Networking CG grants
- Deirdre Straughan developer summit support
- Dan Price facilitation of Zones and BrandZ grants
- Damian Wojslaw facilitation of Software Porters CG grants
- Michal Bielicki townhall meeting support
- Mark Nelson facilitation of Tools CG grants
- Mike Kupfer consistent guiding document feedback
- Mark Martin consistent priorities feedback and meeting attendance
- Lisa Week facilitation of NFS CG grants
- John Levon facilitation of MBD CG grants
- Lynn Rohrer facilitation of Storage CG reporting and summits
- Octave Orgeron facilitation of SysAdmin and LDoms CG grants
- Stephen Hahn for poll.opensolaris.org and CG grant utility support
- Garrett D'Amore for continued CC-level participation
- Joerg Schilling for continued CC-level participation
- Martin Bochnig for continued CC-level participation
- Shawn Walker for continued CC-level participation
I'll talk a little more about thanks and recognition at the townhall tomorrow, hope to speak with you then!
