[advocacy-discuss] Proposal for Philadelphia Area UG

[Fauzia Saeed]

The San Diego User group is starting some work in this arena too.  I 
will keep this alias posted.

isaac wrote:

> I think this proposal is a great idea, esp. unifying universities.
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> Isaac
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> Jim Grisanzio wrote:
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>>hey, Joseph ... thanks for this proposal.
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>>+1 from me.
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>>Joseph Trout wrote:
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>>>Proposal for Philadelphia Area Universities and Colleges User Group Project (PAUC-OSUG)
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>>>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.
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>>Multiple universities? That's excellent. I would imagine that there are 
>>many in this area.
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>>>List of Community Groups Sponsoring the project:
>>>        Advocacy Community Group
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>>>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)
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>>>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.
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>>Interesting focus on the universities themselves (engineering and admins 
>>/employed/ there). I see most conversation around universities and 
>>OpenSolaris these days focused on the professors and students. Good to 
>>include the whole engineering community at the university.
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>>>A secondary purpose is to encourage membership by students and engineers working in industry.  We will also encourage student adoption and student projects.
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>>>The project will also archive its contributions like student projects, presentations, and other material to the project space on the OpenSolaris site.
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>>>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.
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>>>Related Projects: We would like to encourage the free exchange of ideas between universities, colleges, industry, researchers, and students.
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>>>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.
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>>Excellent that you had a first meeting and some history here, too.
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>>>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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>>Cool ...
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>>Jim
>>--
>>http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris
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