[advocacy-discuss] project proposal

[Raju Alluri]

On 6/27/07, Jim Grisanzio <Jim.Grisanzio at sun.com> wrote:
>
> 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.



Sounds fair.

> 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/



Initially, I thought the nearest would be HOSUG (400+KM.)  A second look
suggsted that it would be NITW-SUG, about 200KM away.


> List of Community Groups Sponsoring the project:
> >        Open Solaris Advocacy Community Group
>
>
> You can just say Advocacy Community Group.



Sounds good.


> 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?


That should be practical. The next project term for the students would be
from Dec-June, but we are doing some acclimatization of students to Open
Solaris starting now. Right now, the planned activities (next 1-2 months)
are:

- Lab systems installed with Open Solaris (Build 65 or later)
- Make students familiar with Open Solaris site, processes and code.
- Look at bite size bugs and documentation changes.
- Get to a project and operational user group mode.

This is my guess, but the student community who take a Operating Systems
paper would be 800+ in this college. There are 15+ colleges in this area
that offer this kind of a course.

I am a visiting faculty at this college and visit this place at least once a
quarter. I am going to be the mentor for the UG during the initial days.

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.


Yes. I will make sure that the next revision of the proposal  contains this
information.

> 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 ...


I have no intentions to rush the process. I have a scheduled trip to this
place on Saturday (Friday evening US pacific.) On that day, we are going to
talk about either DTrace or Solaris Containers. We also want to see if this
can be the launch of the User Group. This is just a window of opportunity.
If the decision of Advocacy group comes later, we can target another day for
the launch. Absolutely no issues.

I will wait for another 24 hours and incorporate all the feedback to the
next revision of the proposal, including Jim's. Meanwhile, please keep
sending suggestions.

Regards,
- Raju


Thank you, Padmaraju
>
> Jim
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Raju Alluri
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