The Facilitation project will bring together the 15-20 active OpenSolaris Community Group Facilitators to learn from one another about the Facilitator role and to help increase voter turnout by communicating election details via the project team.
Facilitator Role Description
The Community Group Facilitator is a point of contact who manages the records, reports status to OGB, and ensures that communication from OGB is properly disseminated to participants in the Community Group. The Facilitator is the connection between OGB and community groups, and by extension, projects and user groups. If user group participants or project participants need representation or voting rights, they also go through the CG Facilitator via the sponsoring Community Group.
Active Facilitators Table
Refer to the Facilitators Table for a complete list of contacts for each Community Group.
Project Goals
The initial goals of this project are to share information with one another about OpenSolaris community group facilitation. Use the the facilitation-discuss mailing list to ask questions about the upcoming elections, details about how to vote, when to vote, candidate lists, issues with the polling mechanism, details about expiring grants and how to renew them, election calendar dissemination, information about the annual meeting, ballot measures, etc. Or just introduce yourself to the group, we're glad to have your participation!
Future Directions
In the future, the Facilitation project could enable the various OpenSolaris groups to have a place to propose new ballot measures needed by their group type, develop interfaces for the polling mechanism, manage anything related to improving election processes for their constituent groups specifically, or for the greater community related to the yearly vote. At some point in the future, when non-Sun participants can make updates to the polling database, this would be the group where the processes are tested and put to use first.