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

[Darren.Reed at Sun.COM]

Keith Bierman wrote:

> On Jun 26, 2007, at 2:40 PM, Peter Tribble wrote:
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>> Given that engineers travel anyway, don't we just need a better way
>> of connecting traveling engineers with user group meetings?
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> 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.


I've done this before and touched base with
* CZOSUG in Prague
* GUUG in both Berlin and Hamburg.

and of course for some compulsory beer tasting afterwards too :)

Darren