[advocacy-discuss] project proposal

[Jim Grisanzio]

Hi ... this is cool. Thanks. Some feedback below ....

Padmaraju Gv wrote:
> Proposal for Bhimavaram Open Solaris User Group
>       (BVRM-OSUG)


For the sake of the proposal, I'd add the word "project" just so it's 
consistent with the format. So, Open Solaris User Group Project 
(BVRM-OSUG). This is the first proposal, so it may be good to point out 
that each user group is actually a project on the site. It's a minor point.


> Purpose: To drive awareness and adoption of Open Solaris in Bhimavaram 
> region.


India, I assume, right? :) How close to the other Indian OpenSolaris 
user groups? Complete list here:
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/osug-leaders/


> List of Community Groups Sponsoring the project:
>        Open Solaris Advocacy Community Group


You can just say Advocacy Community Group.


> List of project team members:
>        G V Padmaraju (OS id: gvpraju), primary contact
>        Raju Alluri (OS id: sspurthi)
> 
> Project Description: The purpose of this project is to drive Open 
> Solaris awareness amongst student and professional community in this 
> area. The professional community is a minority in this region, so the 
> target audience will mostly be students. We want to increase OpenSolaris 
> adoption in labs and student projects. 


Perhaps you can post student projects to your UG project space so they 
are shared with the greater community? How many students are there at 
the school?

Oh, you may also want to mention that you need/want a mail list and 
project space on the site. Just to be specific that you are requesting 
infrastructure to help support the effort.


> We also plan to contribute 
> documentation and small code changes back to the community. 

Cool.

> We want to 
> take help of the college alumni in the industry to guide us in these 
> efforts.
> 
> Related Projects: We would like to closely watch the successful user 
> groups and see if we need to work with them to do related activities.
> 
> Prof g v padma raju
> head, dept. of CSE
> s r k r engineering college
> chinna amiram
> bhimavaram, andhra pradesh, india


Cool.

Since this is our first proposal, I'd like to suggest to everyone that 
we have a discussion about this for 2 or 3 days (more? less?) and 
support it or not. On the face of it, I certainly like it. Let's see 
what the others in the Advocacy CG think. Then we can move on to the 
next steps ...

Thank you, Padmaraju

Jim
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