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

[Jim Grisanzio]

Jim Walker wrote:
> Jim,
>
> I think the website components user groups have by being projects
> is great. It makes it easy to organize meetings, presentations and
> events.
>
> 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
>
> Actually, it would be nice to get to this page with one sidebar click:
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/usergroups/ug-leaders/
>
> Also, it would be cool to have an interactive map showing where
> the user groups were located around the world.
>   
Yah, we had a box on the front page for User Groups pointing to the list 
of groups, but it got smoked with the front page roll-back with the 
Indiana controversy. And now that we have a OGB committee overlooking 
the front page, I'm not sure how to get it back. I'll check with Derek 
on that. Perhaps I'll just propose it and work it through the committee. 
But I agree. Although the UGs are better off now, we can still raise 
their profile substantially. I like the work map bit, too.

Jim
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