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

[Jim Grisanzio]

Ok, so I was off by 9,000 miles. Sorry about that. :) Read too fast, I 
guess. :)

Jim


Christopher R. Parr wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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 <http://opensolaris.org>, you will have an
>     opensolaris.org <http://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
>
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