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

[Nathan Kroenert]

Jim -

As a Non-Austrian, and True Blue Aussie, I suggest you check the 
spelling closely. :)

This seems to be a proposal for a user group close to Germany, not close 
to New Zealand. ;)

Cheers!

Nathan.

Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> 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
> 

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