[advocacy-discuss] project proposal

[Jim Grisanzio]

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



Cool. I'm going to be out for a few days, so I'll check back in on 
Monday and we can go on to next steps.

Jim
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