[advocacy-discuss] [Fwd: Re: [ug-discuss] OpenSolaris User Group Growth]

[Keith Bierman]

On Jun 26, 2007, at 2:40 PM, Peter Tribble wrote:


>
> Given that engineers travel anyway, don't we just need a better way
> of connecting traveling engineers with user group meetings?
>
>

That is a very good point. In the olden days of the Sun User Group,  
and my travels for various standards ... I used to almost always  
connect up with a user group in whatever city we had a standards  
meeting in.

So what we need is a single data repository with the User group  
locations and contacts for arranging talks. Then encourage all  
engineers (or even non-engineers who  have something interesting to  
say ;>) to touch base when traveling.

Within SMI, make such contacts a measurable goal for "grading"  
purposes. Also, within SMI perhaps to provide a small pool of travel $ 
$ to handle the cases where an engineer is *close* to but not quite  
where the OSUG is.



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