[advocacy-discuss] Proposal for Philadelphia Area UG

[Joseph Trout]

Proposal for Philadelphia Area Universities and Colleges User Group Project (PAUC-OSUG)

Purpose: The primary purpose of this OSUG is to drive awareness and adoption of OpenSolaris in the universities and colleges in the Philadelphia area.  A secondary purpose is to connect with industry by encouraging membership to all computer users interested in OpenSolaris, allowing a free exchange of ideas and information between industry and academia.

List of Community Groups Sponsoring the project:
        Advocacy Community Group

List of project team members:
      Joseph J. Trout, Ph.D., Sun Microsystems (OS id: joetrout), primary contact
      Shumon Hoque, Lead Engineer, ISC, University of Pennsylvania (OS id: shuque)

Project Description: The primary purpose of this project is to drive awareness and adoption of OpenSolaris primarily among engineers and administrators employed by colleges and universities in the Philadelphia area.  This will provide a stable base for the free exchange of ideas and experience.  One of our goals will be to educate the users by presentations by Sun Microsystems and by our members.

A secondary purpose is to encourage membership by students and engineers working in industry.  We will also encourage student adoption and student projects.

The project will also archive its contributions like student projects, presentations, and other material to the project space on the OpenSolaris site.

Project Needs: This project requires project space on OpenSolaris.org site. The project also requires a mailing list. Suggested list name is ug-paucosug at opensolaris.org.

Related Projects: We would like to encourage the free exchange of ideas between universities, colleges, industry, researchers, and students.

Related past activities: We conducted our first meeting June 27, 2007.  This was mainly a “get acquainted meeting” where we discussed OpenSolaris and the features offered by Solaris.  In the past few years we have had several Sun events.

2007  –  OpenSolaris Meeting
2006  –  SUNDAy at U of P
      - Zones workshop at U of P
      - DTRACE workshop at U of P
2005  - JAVA meeting at U of P

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