OpenSolaris

Community Structure

The community is organized by utilizing the following three organizational components and mailing lists as the communication channels:

• Internationalization & Localization Groups
• Global Coordinators
• Project Teams

If you find anything that is needed to be updated or if you would like to communicated with all community members for any significant issues, please do not hesitate to use the main community mailing list.

Internationalization & Localization Groups

The groups are the top organizational components. They house projects for the corresponding languages and locales or any internationalization activities. Each group has participants such as group leaders, committers, developers, testers, program managers, and so on. Leaders and committers are elected from other participants as needed. One participant can have multiple roles and roles can also be shared by multiple people. Each group will have as much independence as humanly possible.Each group has a mailing list. The mailing list is for the communication among the group members.

As of today, we have the following 25 groups at the community, see below. If you would like to join or create a new group or volunteer to be a leader, please send an email introducing yourself to the group mailing list or the main community mailing list. For more information about the group just click on the corresponding flag below.

Note: The "at" sign at the email addresses has been altered to deter spam emails; please revert the "/AT/" to the "at" sign before you send email.

Global Coordinators

The Global Coordinators coordinate projects in the same or similar nature at multiple Language/Internationalization Groups. For instance, the Global Translations Coordinator coordinates all translation projects under all Language Groups. There will be a Global Internationalization & Localization Coordinator who will coordinate the Global Coordinators. The Global Coordinators are elected as needed by members of the same or similar nature of the projects.

The global coordinators and all related project teams' project leaders communicate by using the mailing list shown at below. All global coordinators should subscribe to the global-all-gc mailing list.

At the moment, we have 2 global coordinators:

Project Teams

Any changes or creations to OpenSolaris are done by projects. Each project has project team who introduces such chanages or creations. Project team has project leader(s) and team members. Any community member(s) can start a project and form a project team. Project leaders are decided by the project team with possible interactions with the group members.

Each project team can have a mailing list or use the mailing list of the housing group to communicate among the project team, the group members, or both.

For the current list of projects, please visit the groups' web pages.