[advocacy-discuss] Advocacy & User Groups: The Future

[Jim Walker]

Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> Jim Walker wrote:
>> But, if I came into the opensolaris.org site as a first time user I would
>> have to know to go to the Advocacy Community and do a few more
>> clicks to get a list of user groups before I could see which ones were
>> in my area, or know to go to the Projects page and sort through a long
>> list of projects to find the user groups.
>>
>> It might be good to have a User Groups button under Projects (or
>> someplace else) in the sidebar that goes to this page:
>> http://opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/usergroups
> 
> I asked on website-discuss how to get a UG link back on the front page 
> of the site. We don't know what the process is since the OGB's editorial 
> committee is not functioning yet. Hopefully, we can get the UG link back 
> in a box on the front page when the CommunityOne box is taken down after 
> the conference.

I don't think we should wait until after May. User Groups are one of the most
active areas of OpenSolaris, and we continue to add new User Groups every
month. The key event boxes are nice on the right hand side, and that space
may be best kept for that purpose. A box for user groups would be nice, but
a "User Groups" link under Connect on the left sidebar may do the job. Events
are great, but User Groups are the bread and butter of the Advocacy Community
long term.

Cheers,
Jim