[advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris hotspots

[Nicolas Dorfsman]

	Hi all,


	Welcome Craig !

Le 2 août 08 à 04:06, Craig van vliet a écrit :

> I am in Tasmania in Australia without a user group (until I move to  
> England soon)

Well, there is 3 UGs in Australia as I can see :

http://www.guses.org/home/presentation/ug-maps

Ok, you'd have to get a plane to see them...it's almost the same for  
many of our members in fosug.

===off
Tasmania to England ? Wow. One of my dream is to move from France to  
Sydney ! What could be the reason to move to England from  
Australia ?  :)
===off


> 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.

Le 2 août 08 à 05:44, Joep Vesseur a écrit :
> 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.

Yes, you're right Joep !
Metrics on domains are not relevant.  People visiting os.org from  
France or any other european country may have a .com, .org .eu .
Concerning OpenSolaris installations, figures/maps are just funny.
Another fact, the French-speaking UG is one of the only UG to have  
been founded by non-Sun employees. We do have members who are working  
at Sun (France only...where are you Canadians, Africans and other  
french-speaking Sun people ?), but  the board of our association was  
founded without them.

I can't compete with Dutch UG on meeting turn-up. It's one of our goal  
to increase participants, but it's really hard with no sponsor. We are  
looking for some companies to help us to organize big envalisation  
meeting, with special guests and so on. But how could we pay for guest  
trip, barco rent, etc, if we have no money ?

> 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.

Universities...hum it's a huge and intersting challenge.
Joep, do you know Dutch Campus Ambassadors ?
Is there a mandatory mailing list or something like that where we  
could, we UGs, contact Campus Ambassador ?

Sorry Craig to have used your message to request help...you're right  
we need to have a better audience; but we need HELP !



Nicolas







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