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

[Jim Grisanzio]

Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
>>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

Don't we already have a field for "conferences"? We have that in Japan. 
Of would we need a separate field for UGs? I don't even want to think 
about adding a field to SunTea. :) My goodness ....

Jim
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