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

[Nicolas Dorfsman]

Le 25 janv. 08 à 13:15, Jim Grisanzio a écrit :

> Nicolas Dorfsman wrote:
>> Le 25 janv. 08 à 01:54, Rafael Vanoni a écrit :
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>>> Jim Grisanzio wrote:
>>>
>> 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.
>>
> How do we federate?

The only way is to create communication pipes between ugs.
i.e.: organizing inter-ug events


>> We need clarification on contributors status, a more living web  
>> site...
>>
> Clarification how? Is the constitution not clear? I think you may  
> mean how do the UGs develop contributors and core contributors  
> within Advocacy. Is that right? If so, I agree. :)

Correct. That was what I meant.

>> 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 !
>
> We had ug-discuss and now we have advocacy-discuss and the same  
> problem exists -- only a few groups participate /across/ the entire  
> user group community. I'm not seeing a good reason to keep the UGs  
> within Advocacy, to be honest. I think the are buried in here.

Probably right.


>> Who here is a european member and does know me ?  Who knows where  
>> he  could find presentations samples, etc.....
>> _______________________________________________
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> I think people have to dig through each UG to find stuff. Some of it  
> is centralized, but most of the content is now distributed. At least  
> the list of groups is in one place now. :)

Dig through the 60 projects, with many of them speaking their own  
language ?
I really appreciated to find the "old" central repository for  
presentation with template. I'd really like to have something like  
this, re-directing to ugs sites. I mean something sorted by subject  
and language.  When I want to hold a presentation on ZFS....ok let's  
see what other ugs are telling about. Etc.

Don't forget some UGs are not lead by Sun employee...our members have  
to create by themselves all contents they put in their presentations.

Any kind of "federation" coudl benefit to all the community.


Nicolas