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

[Nicolas Dorfsman]

Le 25 janv. 08 à 01:54, Rafael Vanoni a écrit :

> Jim Grisanzio wrote:
>> hey,
>>
>> I wanted to toss out some issues for discussion regarding the  
>> Advocacy
>> CG and the User Groups. Where are we going? How are we going to get
>> there? Who does what?

Excellent question.

>>
> That sounds like a good way to escalate. I think we could go a little
> beyond region-specific lists, at least in places where the community
> grows to a large number. Setting up UGs under a country/region portal
> would automatically decentralize things. Each country could have its  
> own
> core group in charge of voting and creating UGs - as a country's
> community reaches some level of maturity (and size).

Take a look to these maps :
http://www.guses.org/home/presentation/ug-maps

Do you really think we need to "decentralize" ?  Please no, we  
certainly need to federate. Only few countries have more than one ug.

We need clarification on contributors status, a more living web site...

>
>
> Something hierarchical, OSUGs at the lowest level, then coutry/region
> and then advocacy.
>
> Regardless of the overall size of the community, the advocacy group  
> will
> continue to handle core discussions and issues. Each country/region  
> core
> group would report to advocacy.


Core discussions...hum.  We may need a list specific on ugs, which  
distribute to all user-groups...we need to federate ug a bit more !   
Who here is a european member and does know me ?  Who knows where he  
could find presentations samples, etc.....