OpenSolaris Community Groups

OpenSolaris communities are social groups whose members engage in open conversations and will have representation in the governance process. Although communities do not have source repositories, it's expected that communities will associate with technical projects and sponsor projects of their own.

Community members can propose new Community Groups by writing to the ogb-discuss list outlining items such as goals, technical scope, potential participants, leaders, and activities. Proposals need to list at least 3 current Core Contributors who are nominating the community, at least 3 participants who will become the initial Core Contributors of the new community, and one person who will serve as the community's Facilitator. Further details on Community Group creation and governance can be found in Article VII of the OpenSolaris Constitution. Also, the Infrastructure Life Cycle Instructions document explains all the implementation details for activating and deactivating all of the site's collectives.

• Academic and Research
  A community for students, faculty, and researchers
• Accessibility
  The Accessibility Community exists to facilitate the collaborative design, discussion and development of accessibility related content.
• Advocacy
  OpenSolaris Advocacy.
• Appliances
  A community for building diverse appliances using OpenSolaris
• Approachability
  The Approachability community will be focused on eliminating annoying and substantial gaps in the Solaris operating system.
• Architecture Process and Tools
  System Architecture Process and Tools
• BrandZ
  BrandZ (Branded Zones) extends the Solaris Zones infrastructure to enable the creation of non-native zones on a Solaris system, including Linux Zones.
• Chinese Users
  A Community targetting to the Chinese market, with Chinese Universities as the top priority.
• Community Advisory Board (CAB)
  The OpenSolaris Governing Board (OCB) oversees the functioning of, and resolves disputes within, the OpenSolaris Community. The Board is elected by the Community's Core Contributors.
• Databases
  This community is a gathering place for both database users and engineers building databases on Solaris. Any discussions relevant to databases on Solaris are welcome here. Some potential discussion topics: how to improve Solaris to better serve database technologies; how to make databases run best on Solaris; differences between various database technologies and which one is best suited for a given use; and so on.
• Desktop
  The OpenSolaris Desktop Community
• Device Drivers
  The Device Drivers will promote and support the creation of additional device drivers for OpenSolaris.
• Distribution
  The Distribution Community exists to facilitate the collaborative design and development of OpenSolaris-based distributions.
• Documentation
  Documentation, including the feature documentation collections, man pages, and guides.
• DTrace
  DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework for the Solaris Operating Environment.
• Emerging Platforms
  Modifying OpenSolaris to work on additional processors and platforms as well as in embedded and other environments.
• Fault Management
  Tools, technology, infrastructure, and content to permit Solaris and Sun products to recover from, diagnose, isolate, and explain faults.
• Games on OpenSolaris
  The OpenSolaris games community serves to list games that can be played on OpenSolaris, to provide instructions for downloading and running them, and to host new games that OpenSolaris contributors have written.
• HA Clusters
  A community for exploring high-availability cluster innovations, research, and implementations, including the Open High Availability Cluster project.  This community focuses on clusters for high-availability, as opposed to HPC clusters, grids, or other cluster technologies.
• HPC Developer
  The goal of this community is to promote High Performance Computing on OpenSolaris.
• Installation and Packaging
  Technologies and processes related to installation, packaging, patching, and construction of OpenSolaris distributions.
• Internationalization and Localization
  Community for OpenSolaris software internationalization and localization.
• Laptop
  Using Solaris as your ultimate mobile computing platform.
• Logical Domains
  Logical Domains, or LDoms, is Sun's new server virtualization and partitioning technology for CoolThreads(TM) servers.
• Modular Debugger (MDB)
  Solaris Modular Debugger (MDB) is a debugger designed to facilitate analysis of certain problems.
• Networking
  A community on Networking
• NFS
  Network File System as implemented in OpenSolaris
• Observability
  Tools and facilities for observing software and hardware behavior on OpenSolaris.
• OS/Net (ON)
  Information for ON developers
• OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB)
  The OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) oversees the functioning of, and resolves disputes within, the OpenSolaris Community. The Board is elected by the Community's Core Contributors.
• OpenSolaris Printing
  Printing technologies
• Performance
  The OpenSolaris Performance Community
• Power Management
  Power Management encompasses all aspects of a system, from hardware to the software that uses it. In OpenSolaris, power management is currently being discussed or developed in various interest areas, such as drivers and laptops. However, as power management is gaining momentum in servers, tools and other areas than laptops and drivers, having discussions in those groups without the benefit of the audience of other interest areas, may generate conflicting or competing solutions.
• PowerPC
  The goal of this community is to create an OpenSolaris port that runs on PowerPC hardware.
• Security
  The Security Geek Corner
• Service Management Facility (smf(5))
  The Service Management Facility is a mechanism to define, deliver and manage long-running application services for Solaris.
• Software Porters
  A community for organizing and co-ordinating efforts to port software to the OpenSolaris Platform.
• Solaris Volume Manager
  An enterprise class logical volume manager. The goal of this community is to discuss its features and collaborate on future enhancements.
• Storage
  A community for storage in OpenSolaris. We are interested in hardware, filesystems, and protocols for remote access of the storage.
• Systems Administration Community Group
  A community for systems administrators, engineers, and architects to collaborate and enhance the manageability of OpenSolaris.
• Testing
  Community for software testing discussions and collaboration.
• Tools Home
  The Tools community covers compilers, source code management, and tools used in software construction in OpenSolaris generally.
• Unix File Systems (UFS)
  General Discussion about the Unix File System(UFS), the generic file system layer and file system utilities technologies
• Website Community
  The Website Engineering Team, which is part of Sun's Open Development Engineering Team, builds and manages opensolaris.org on behalf of Sun Microsystems and the OpenSolaris community. The Website Team also leads the Website Community Group and welcomes contributions to help evolve opensolaris.org. Subscribe to website-discuss to get involved.
• X Window System
  The X Window System as implemented in OpenSolaris.
• Xen
  The Xen community is intended to focus specifically on the OpenSolaris side of the OpenSolaris on Xen project.
• ZFS
  ZFS is a new kind of filesystem that provides simple administration, transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and immense scalability.
• Zones
  Zones provide a means of creating virtualized operating system environments within an instance of Solaris, allowing one or more processes to run in isolation from other activity on the system.