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

[Casper.Dik at Sun.COM]

>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.

Cool; and perhaps have a direct feed from SunTEA (our travel and expenses
tool) into user group meetings so we can track where our engineers are
planning to go next.

Casper