Whats the Mobile & Embedded community governance model?
The Mobile & Embedded community will launch with an interim governance model that will evolve over time. The Sun team has studied many of the existing governance models in the open-source community and has determined what it believes is a good initial model to follow. The model is based on its founding principles of transparency, participation, compatibility and engineering excellence. It consists of a governing board of 5 members. 2 are permanent seats for representatives from Sun, 1 is appointed by Sun (non-Sun member), and 2 are elected from the membership of the Mobile & Embedded community. The role of the board is to maintain the health of the community by overseeing its affairs and facilitating the alignment between the operations of the community and its established principles and objectives. The Mobile & Embedded community will be made up of Java Platform Projects (based on JSRs), Java Tools projects (tools, utilities, libraries, etc) and Java application projects (midlets or x
