[OmniOS-discuss] To the OmniOS Community

[Theo Schlossnagle]

I have to chime in. Communities aren't built on money; they are built on
time. I think there has been an unhealthy focus on how much money people
are willing to pledge without considering who would even be willing to
accept that money for their time. Those willing might not require payment
at all.

Communities are built on collective need and contributed time. It comes
down to volunteering. I have yet to see anyone pledge time to do work, and
from my perspective that is what is truly needed here.

I was hoping not to be the first, but I will attempt to lead by example.
I'll pledge my time to do required security package publications on 014 and
022. As security issues with packages in core arise, I will update the
build system, re-roll the packages and publish them.

If this will be successful, other people will need to commit to do the work
and we will democratize the access to make that work possible.

Best regards,

Theo


On May 14, 2017 3:41 PM, "Michael Mounteney" <gate03 at landcroft.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, 14 May 2017 17:33:56 +0200
> Krzysztof Grzempa <grzempek at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > So, where are we at the moment? Any conclusions? Decisions? Plans?
>
> TBH it's not looking good.
>
> https://gitter.im/PostOmniOS/Lobby has reached no firm conclusion.  We
> certainly are well-short of a group of qualified and committed people
> who could take-on management of OmniOS.
>
> The funding poll at
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IyAI950a-
> JkPgRRLSezZm9-Rt8HkfO_nIkubd_m8d_0/edit
> is short by an order of magnitude of what it needs to set-up commercial
> OmniOS support.  Even the promises amount to less than a serious salary.
>
> I hate to be negative but somebody has to say it and we have to decide
> how to move on.
>
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