[advocacy-discuss] Events with OpenSolaris participation ?

Derek Cicero derek.cicero at sun.com
Thu Feb 21 11:05:35 PST 2008


Rich Reynolds wrote:
> Who is maintaining this page today???  says it hasn't been touched for 
> some time!!!!
> 
> if no one, or they want it off their plate I will do it..
> 
I can give you access to edit that page. What is your os.org user ID?

Derek

> rich
> 
> 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
>>
>>
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Derek Cicero
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