[advocacy-discuss] Proposal for Assam University OpenSolaris User Group Project (AUS-OSUG)

[Joe G (Joseph George)]

Just one comment. I am happy to see campus ambassadors start user  
groups. However, since students graduate and move on, you might want  
to explicitly talk about a hand-off to your junior batch mates.

~Joe

On 10-Sep-07, at 11:58 AM, Jim Grisanzio wrote:

> Hello, Alok ... thanks for this proposal. Comments below.
>
> Alok Chakrabarty wrote:
>> To drive awareness and adoption of OpenSolaris in Assam University  
>> (AUS)
>
>
> I'm assuming you are talking about India here. Can you specify that in
> the next version of your proposal? I'm also assuming that there are no
> other OpenSolaris user groups in the area. The only reason I mention
> this is that if user group overlap in geography it's good to at least
> explore the notion of joing an existing group rather than starting  
> a new
> group.
>
>
>> Project Administrator: Alok Chakrabarty, Sun CA AUS
>> mcscalok at gmail dot com
>> +919435912844, +919954081006
>
>
> Phone number is not necesary. But it's a good idea to put your
> OpenSolaris user ID here as the lead for this group. What's the  
> "Sun CA"
> for?
>
>
>> Project Description: The purpose of this project is to drive  
>> OpenSolaris
>> awareness amongst student and professional community in AUS. The
>> professional community is a minority in this region, so the target
>> audience will mostly be students.
>
>
> Can you give us a sense of the size of the student population you are
> going to engage with your group? It's just as a point of reference,
> that's all. Small point.
>
>
>> I and in future other members of this group
>> want to increase OpenSolaris adoption in labs and student  
>> projects. I and in future other members of this group want the  
>> help of the college alumni in the industry to guide us in these  
>> efforts.
>
>
> You may want to also add that this user group project is part of  
> the Sun
> campus ambassador program. I know you mention it below, but I think it
> belongs here in the main description so everyone is aware. Most people
> in the OpenSolaris community will not be familiar with that program.
>
>
>> The project will also archive its contributions like student  
>> projects,
>> presentations, and other material to the 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
>> csausosug at opensolaris dot org.
>>
>> Related Projects: I and in future other members of this group  
>> would like to closely watch the successful user groups and see if  
>> we can work with them to do related activities.
>>
>> The request for this user group is principally to complete the  
>> prerequisite steps to start my work as CA in AUS as guided in the  
>> Sun Campus Ambassador handbook.
>>
>> Eagerly waiting for approval from user group administrators and  
>> instructions for taking further steps in this regard.
>
>
> Ok, let's give others a chance to comment. I'm happy the campus
> ambassadors are getting involved in this.
>
>
> Jim
> -- 
> Jim Grisanzio http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris
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