[advocacy-discuss] Project Proposal: Research Triangle Park OpenSolaris User Group (RTP-OSUG)

[Vic Engle]

Project Proposal: Research Triangle Park OpenSolaris User Group (RTP-OSUG)

Purpose: To drive awareness and adoption of OpenSolaris in the Triangle area and within the North Carolina OpenSolaris community.

List of Community Groups Sponsoring the project:
   	Advocacy Community Group

List of project team members:
	Vic Engle (OS id: vicengle), primary contact
   	Jyh-shing Chen (OS id: jyhshing)
   	Peter Kearney (OS id: pkearney)
        Derrick Shultz (OS id: dashultz)


Project Description:

The purpose of this project is to drive OpenSolaris awareness and 
adoption within the Research Triangle Park area, targeting both the academic and the professional communities. There are a large number of Solaris installations in the area along with active open source advocacy groups including a Linux Users Group and a Perl Mongers group. Our goal is to create more awareness of Open Solaris within this community.


Project Needs:

This project requires space on the opensolaris.org portal and two mailing lists. Suggested list names are rtp-announce-osug at opensolaris dot org and rtp-discuss-osug at opensolaris dot org
.

Related Projects:

We intend to work closely with the other OSUGs to help drive awareness and share knowledge through talks, tutorials and related material.

Proposed activities:

We plan on establishing a meeting place and a calendar of monthly meetings and presentations about OpenSolaris technologies. The presentation material resulting from those talks will be made available on our website. 

In addition to presentation material we will promote the creation of
HowTo technical documentation to assist in OpenSolaris deployments and we'll use space allocated on the portal to make all documentation available to the public.

We will establish contact with existing open source user groups and 
will collaborate with those communities.
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