[advocacy-discuss] OSUG creation request

[Jim Grisanzio]

Terri Wischmann wrote:
> Hi Andrew/Jim -
>
> I am a Product Marketing Manager supporting OpenSolaris with outbound 
> activities and I have been wanting to get involved in the Community as 
> well as the CA's more.

Cool. welcome. :)

>   I recently sent out an email to the CA's letting them know that we 
> will be building excitement around OpenSolaris next release on May 5th.

Where is that list? I'd love to get the CAs directly involved in the 
Advocacy CG. The trouble is that to set up UGs on opensolaris.org is 
still a manual process and I know there are a million CAs at this point. 
:) But any involvement would be good. It would be good for us here to 
have more direct connections to universities. I know that we are 
reaching tens of thousands of students, which is cool, but we need to 
get some of them actively involved here as well.

> I am new to supporting OpenSolaris and really want to get the 
> Community a glimpse of the inside happenings and get CA's involved as 
> well. 

Are you going to the Summit in Santa Cruz? We are going to do a session 
on Advocacy on Sunday. Should be good.

> I just interviewed Tim Cramer Senior Director of OpenSolaris Core 
> Engineering and Stephen Hahn Distinguished Engineer and wanted to get 
> the Community visibility to these organic/raw videos. The video is on 
> my blog.  http://blogs.sun.com/theopenwaters

Watching it now ... very good. I added your blog here: 
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/blogs/ You will be listed in an hour or so 
(and yes, the right nav bar with the list of names is broken so your 
name may be listed a few times).

> I am not promoting any corp hoopla just real happenings and events 
> around OpenSolaris as I know the Community does not want nor need that.

Stop by any time. And thanks for introducing yourself ...


Jim
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