Advocacy

NOTE: The Advocacy Community Group is no longer active on this website so information here may be out of date. Current Oracle Solaris 11 product documentation can be found here. Information about downloading Oracle Solaris 11 can be found here.

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!

Introduction
Photos: Meet The OpenSolaris Community
Join the Advocacy Community
Users, Projects, User Groups, Discussion Lists
Advocacy Website Roles
Important Website Information

Introduction

Advocacy is only part of the entire OpenSolaris community. If you are new here, think of OpenSolaris as a community of communities in much the same way the Internet is a network of networks. Jump in anywhere because everything is connected in some way. For instance, there are hundreds of spaces on opensolaris.org where community members gather and work. We use the general term "Collectives" to describe large collections of these spaces, which individually are listed here as Community Groups, Projects, and User Groups. Also, please remember that opensolaris.org is only one website in the OpenSolaris community. You will find OpenSolaris users and developers at other sites and also in a wide variety of social networks around the world. We try to link to as many of these spaces as we can.

Don't be afraid to ask questions. We are here to help. Welcome ...

Photos: Meet The OpenSolaris Community

Here are about 10,000 images from OpenSolaris users, developers, students, administrators, and evangelists around the world. Join us and get involved!

If you take photos at OpenSolaris events and post them to flickr, please tag them with "opensolaris" and they will show up here.

Join the Advocacy Community

Register on opensolaris.org: https://auth.opensolaris.org/register.action.
Subscribe to our mailing lists. All of the lists for OpenSolaris can be found on the Discussions page. However, we recommend you subscribe to these three to get started in Advocacy:
- advocacy-discuss: sign up, archives. Open for all OpenSolaris community members to discuss advocacy issues around OpenSolaris.
- opensolaris-announce: sign up, archives. Open for all OpenSolaris community members to post announcements to the entire OpenSolaris community. Posting instructions here.
- osug-leaders: sign up, archives. Open to all OpenSolaris User Group participants but especially for OSUG leaders globally.
Introduce yourself and participate. Here are more details about directly contributing to OpenSolaris.

Users, Projects, User Groups, Discussion Lists

The Advocacy community is associated with a variety of other groups on opensolaris.org. However, there is no direct connection between the groups anymore.

Proposing New Groups

Community Groups, Projects, and User Groups are approved via processes outlined in the website infrastructure procedures document.

Active Spaces Associated with Advocacy

Inactive Spaces Associated with Advocacy

Advocacy Website Roles

There are 3 website roles in the Advocacy community: Leader, Affiliate, Participant. Leaders have XWiki edit/admin privileges, and Affiliates have XWiki edit privileges. The roles in User Groups are the same as the Advocacy space, whereas Projects are slightly different since projects have source code repositories. All of the website roles are explained in the Roles & Collectives document.

Important Website Information

Jim Grisanzio

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Created by on 2009/10/26 11:40

Last modified by Jim Grisanzio on 2011/11/09 15:36