[advocacy-discuss] reg- creation of new Open Solaris User Group(OSUG) for my University

[Jim Grisanzio]

Hello, Raguraman ... thank you for this proposal. Comments in line ...

raguraman r wrote:
>  *To drive awareness and adoption of OpenSolaris in International Instutute
> of Information Technology(I2IT), pune, India.


As you note, we have an established OSUG in Pune. Has there been any 
discussion with the Pune group about perhaps being a part of that 
project? Perhaps the I2IT project members join the POSUG and have a 
space within that project? We try to not create overlapping UGs if 
possible.


> *Project Administrator*: Raguraman R, SUN CA I2IT,pune
> raguraman86 at gmail dot com
> +919921512745


Ok, I see. Sun "CA" is Campus Ambassador. :) That's fine. Like the 
previous proposal, though, I'd leave out the phone number (if that's a 
phone number) but include your OpenSolaris user ID instead.


> *Requesting group under the name "I2IT pune Open Solaris User Group"*
> **
> *Project Description*: The purpose of this project is to drive OpenSolaris
> awareness amongst student and professional community in I2IT. The
> professional community is a minority in this region, so the target
> audience will mostly be students.

Like the previous proposal, I'd like to know more about the size or any 
other details about the university here. Each school is different, and I 
think it would help make each proposal (and group) different as well as 
inform the members of the Advocacy Community about the situation there. 
Again, small point, but a sentence or two would be nice.


> 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.
> 
> 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  "i2itpuneosug 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.
> 
>                             Pune OpenSolaris User Group:
> POSUG<http://opensolaris.org/os/project/posug/> is
> the existing group related to our group.
> 
> The request for this user group is principally to complete the prerequisite
> steps to start my work as CA in I2IT pune,India as guided in the Sun Campus
> Ambassador handbook.


One question I have for all the Campus Ambassadors relating to this 
"prerequisite" is that what happens when student leaders graduate and 
leave? Is there a plan for leadership transitions? And if so, who 
manages that? All UGs have leadership changes, but university student 
populations are transitory by nature, so I'd like to just make sure that 
this is considered.



> Eagerly waiting for approval from user group administrators and instructions
> for taking further steps in this regard.
> --
> 
> regards,
> Raguraman R,
> Sun CA I2IT,Pune,India.

Ok, coo. Let's see if others have comments. Thanks.

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