[advocacy-discuss] Proposal for University of Melbourne OpenSolaris User Group Project (UNIMELB-OSUG)

[Jim Grisanzio]

You have a couple of  +1 votes, so I can set this up. Watch for mail 
from my off list.

Jim
-- 
http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris

Zhiqi Tao wrote:

>Dear Advocacy Community Group,
>
>Could you please review this proposal to see if I can set up University
>of Melbourne OpenSolaris User Group?
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>Proposal for University of Melbourne OpenSolaris User Group Project
>(UNIMELB-OSUG)
>
>Purpose: To promote OpenSolaris in the the University of Melbourne,
>Victoria, Australia
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>List of project team members:
>    	Zhiqi Tao (OS id: zhiqitao), primary contact
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>Project Description:
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>The purpose of this project is to promote OpenSolaris and create local
>community among students and researchers in the University of Melbourne.
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>Our ultimate goal is to cultivate OpenSolaris users in University of
>Melbourne curriculum and related student projects, and improve campus
>support for OpenSolaris and related distributions primarily through free
>education and mutual support. We anticipate that current Unimelb faculty
>, staff and students may be willing to make significant contributions
>towards these efforts because Solaris has already dominate servers in
>Computer Science and Software Engineering department.
>
>The project will archive such contributions as relevant student
>projects, presentations, documentation, code, and other material to its
>project space on the OpenSolaris site.
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>Project Needs:
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>This project requires project space on OpenSolaris.org site. The project
>also requires a mailing list. Suggested list name is unimelb at
>opensolaris dot org.
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>Related Projects:
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>We plan to closely monitor the activities of MSOSUG and nearby OSUGs, as
>well as the local Linux and Unix user groups, in order to seek out
>opportunities for collaborative OpenSolaris promotion in the region. We
>will also actively promote Sun University Day if it would be held in our
>campus.
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>Proposed activities:
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>We plan to initiate workshops and user group meetings in University of
>Melbourne campus, with a focus on promoting the competitive advantages
>of using an OpenSolaris distribution for research, development, and
>teaching. Stage 1 of this will be to gather membership and further
>support from the university and community. Stage 2 will be active
>development of promotional activities, drawing both upon local
>experience and materials already produced by the OpenSolaris community.
>Further activities will be determined as demand and our community grow.
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>Note: This proposal is written with reference of BTN-OSUG proposal
>http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2007-July/002156.html
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