[advocacy-discuss] Proposal wor a new OSUG in Austria

[Christopher R. Parr]

Hi!

Only for your information:
My group is not in Australia, but in Austria, Europe.

Thanks
Christopher Parr

2008/4/14, Jim Grisanzio <Jim.Grisanzio at sun.com>:
>
> Christopher R. Parr wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm the founder of the Austrian Usergroup for Linux & Co (in short
> > AUFL), an user group for Linux, *BSD and Opensolaris.
> >
> > I'd like to register AUFL as the OSUG of Austria.
> >
> > Name of Usergroup: AUFL (Austrian Usergroup for Linux & Co)
> >
> > Initial participants:
> >
> >    * Christopher R. Parr (fosstux)
> >    * Christian Tessarek (chrisi)
> >
> > Description:
> > This group shall become a meeting point for users of Linux, FreeBSD,
> > NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD and Opensolaris. Aim is, to build up a
> > community of people working with one or more of the specified Operating
> > systems. Also presentations, writing of howtos and tutorials as well es
> > support are things that could be done.
> >
>
> Hello, Christopher.
>
> We have four groups in Australia, so there's probably room for more
> http://opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/usergroups/ug-leaders/. :)
> And I love the idea of collaborating with the other communities, too. That's
> happening more and more around the world. But I'm not sure the name works,
> though. You will be sitting on opensolaris.org, you will have an
> opensolaris.org mailing list, you will be part of the OpenSolaris Advocacy
> Community Group, and perhaps eventually your UG members will earn
> Contributor and/or Core Contributors status under the OpenSolaris
> Constitution. Calling all that "Linux & Co" really doesn't work for me.
>
> However, you bring up a really interesting issue. Just what do we call
> meta-groups like you are proposing? And why shouldn't we explore doing
> something like this in some regions? This is the fist time this has come up
> (I think). I'm sure others will have an opinion. I don't have a creative
> solution off the top of my head at the moment.
>
> Jim
>
> --
> http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/
>
>


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