[advocacy-discuss] Events with OpenSolaris participation ?

[Michal Bielicki]

Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> Michal Bielicki wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>> is there somewhere a list of events with OpenSolaris.org 
>> participations ? A place for volunteers to participate ? Something 
>> like that ?
>> While looking for that I thought that this would be one of the core 
>> advocacy things so asking here cause all I found were the OpenSolaris 
>> World Tour things
>>   
>
> Good questions. :) We have an events page 
> http://opensolaris.org/os/events/ but it's clear that OpenSolaris 
> shows up at many more events than are listed there. It's not at all 
> core for Advocacy at this point (never has been, actually), but I 
> think more and more attention is being directed to Advocacy lately so 
> hopefully that will change. Currently, most of the stuff here is 
> distributed among individual user groups and focused on creating user 
> groups. And the UGs are doing a great job of getting themselves 
> organized. Activity is clearly increasing. But we do need people on 
> advocacy-discuss who are interested in hunting around for the 
> conferences globally, posting them to this list, generating 
> participation and presentations, and managing those interactions on 
> list. It's not just going to happen. We have to do it if we want it to 
> happen (or if we want it to happen here, anyway). Some people have 
> posted announcements about various conferences and asked for 
> participation, but thus far interest has been pretty low (with a few 
> exceptions to that, of course). I'm not usually involved in the Sun 
> events teams, but I can see about getting more info posted about the 
> stuff that Sun drives. And I'm hoping to see some Summit announcements 
> soon. How would you suggest we proceed from here?
>
> Jim
>
>
>
Hi Jim,
you seem to become my base discussion partner for tricky questions ;). 
So here my list of ideas, not sure which ones are feasible or make 
enough sense to implement but treat it as a think thank.

- keep a list of all events where OpenSolaris will take part or will be 
represented, ech with a link to its own page where people could express 
if they want to help, come visit, take part in running a booth ?
- create a list where people could express their readiness to speak and 
present at events with their contact details, so organizers of events 
have a chance to contact them and find out if they would be willing to 
take part in events
- create a space where people can add their own events, partly to ask if 
someone would want to participate as opensolaris.org, or asking for 
volunteers to help with the event.

It would probably also help to have a place where potential sponsors 
could express their willingness to provide space for some opensolaris 
advocates to present stuff on their booth ?


Just my 2c EUR (oh I ran out of those so today my 2p GBP)

cheers

Michal

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