[advocacy-discuss] Fwd: Proposal for new open solaris user group

[Joe G (Joseph George)]

Nazia,

Good proposal. Can you add one more section. Because it is a  
University User Group, and students move on, how would you sustain  
it? May be, someone more permanent like a Faculty Advisor can commit  
to keeping it alive and kicking.

~Joe

On 10-Oct-07, at 6:14 AM, nazia sarang wrote:

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> From: nazia sarang <naziasarang at yahoo.co.in>
> Date: 9 October 2007 8:09:13 PM MDT
> To: advocacy-discuss at opensolairs.org
> Subject: Proposal for new open solaris user group
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> Proposal for Andhra University College Of Engineering OpenSolaris  
> User Group Project (BTN-OSUG)
>
> Purpose: To drive awareness and adoption of OpenSolaris in the
> vicinity of Andhra University College Of Engineering, in  
> Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh,India.
>
> List of Community Groups Sponsoring the project:
> Advocacy Community Group
>
> List of project team members:
> Nazia Sarang(OS id: nazia), primary contact
> Kalyana Vineela (OS id: vineela)
>
> Project Description:
>
> The purpose of this project is to spread OpenSolaris awareness within
> the student and professional computing community in the area around
> Visakhapatnam, India. We perceive that a significant number in this
> community will be interested in learning more about OpenSolaris and
> related technologies.
>
> Our ultimate goal is to foster OpenSolaris adoption in labs and  
> student
> projects, and improve campus support for OpenSolaris and related
> distributions primarily through education and mutual support. We
> anticipate that current IU faculty and staff, as well as alumni  
> residing
> in the region around Visakhapatnam, may be willing to make significant
> contributions towards these efforts.
>
> The project will archive such contributions as relevant student
> projects, presentations, documentation, code, and other material to  
> its
> project space on the OpenSolaris site.
>
> Project Needs:
>
> This project requires project space on OpenSolaris.org site. The  
> project
> also requires a mailing list. Suggested list name is ug-auceosug at
> opensolaris dot org.
>
> Related Projects:
>
> We plan to closely monitor the activities of nearby OSUGs, as well as
> the local ACM and Unix user groups, in order to seek out opportunities
> for collaborative OpenSolaris promotion in the region.
>
> Proposed activities:
>
> We plan to initiate workshops and user group meetings in our area,  
> 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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