[advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris hotspots

[Joep Vesseur]

Craig,

Welcome aboard. Glad you share out enthusiasm for OpenSolaris!

Craig van vliet wrote:
 >[...]
> Found generally USA high, then Europe, then Asia and South America. Singapore although was the highest, and within Europe, France and Netherlands were poor performers. I am in Tasmania in Australia without a user group (until I move to England soon), so I can't really get a true feel for the community yet, but if someone could maybe give some insight into why Singapore so high, and some extra thoughts on how we can get the BRIC nations better represented.
> 

Not sure what metric you used (OpenSolaris installs?) but speaking on
behalf of the Dutch OpenSolaris UG, I think we're one of the UGs with
the highest turn-up every meeting. The figures might be a little
skewed since I think most of the attendees to our UG are Solaris (10)
customers who might not be participating in OpenSolaris per-se, but
have a keen interest to see where we're heading.

I'm still very much interested in suggestions on how to augment our
UG participants with non-customers (CS students first, interested
Linux/BSD enthusiasts too). My guess is moving the venue to a university
co-located space is the most important step, but we'd probably need
more than that to get the message out.

Joep