Welcome to the Advocacy Community
The Advocacy Community on opensolaris.org exists to help people around the world get involved in OpenSolaris. 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 and we welcome your participation.
Join the Advocacy Community: 3 Easy Steps
- Register on auth.opensolaris.org: https://auth.opensolaris.org/register.action
- Subscribe to the advocacy-discuss list: sign up, archives, web forum
- Introduce yourself and participate
Projects, User Groups, Discussion Lists
The Advocacy community sponsors a variety of user groups and projects. Advocacy Collective relationships can be found here.
Active
- advocacy-discuss@opensolaris.org: subscribe/unsubscribe
- OpenSolaris User Groups and their discussion lists
- OSUG map and calendar
- BeleniX user discussion list
- OpenSolaris developer conference lists: osdevcon-announce and osdevcon-discuss
- Kiva lending project and discussion list
Inactive
- OpenSolaris Summit conference discussion list
- Trademark/branding project and discussion list
- Community awards project and discussion list
Advocacy Website Roles
There are 3 website roles in the Advocacy community: Leader, Affiliate, and Participant. Leaders have XWiki edit/admin privileges, and Affiliates have XWiki edit privileges. The roles in User Groups are the same, whereas Projects are slightly different. Website roles are explained here and here. Advocacy user relationship can be found here.
Advocacy Governance Roles
If you are interested in any of the governance roles in the OpenSolaris community, see the OpenSolaris Constitution. Note that the role of Advocacy Facilitator is open right now so if you are interested in volunteering see the Constitution and/or the Facilitation Project for details. Jim Grisanzio will fill in until someone officially takes over as Facilitator. Advocacy governance roles can be found here.