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

[Tim Foster]

Hey folks,

On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 14:37 +0100, Nicolas Dorfsman wrote:
> >> Who here is a european member and does know me ?  Who knows where  
> >> he  could find presentations samples, etc.....

I've an idea :-) How about a repository of presentations that all user
groups could share:

http://opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/os-presentations/

or perhaps more articles on the advocacy page contributed by members of
user groups:

http://opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/help/

(I'd love us to collaborate on a set of elevator-pitches around
OpenSolaris, what is it in a nutshell, what are it's new/exciting
features. )


Other stuff ? Broadcasting our meetings a bit more would be great - the
SVOSUG this morning/last night did an excellent ustream.tv broadcast of
Jim Hughes talking about Indiana (which I'm still watching in my spare
time) but at the same time I'm now ripping the audio to pop in the
IE-OSUG podcast feed as a service to people who want to listen to
OpenSolaris-content on the move.
( http://opensolaris.org/os/project/ie-osug/podcast/ [1])


Likewise, there's the "OpenSolaris news" posts I've been doing for a
while:
http://blogs.sun.com/timf/category/OpenSolaris+Monthly


All of these things benefit the IE-OSUG certainly, but they also benefit
all other user groups - but unless we broadcast what we're doing to each
other on this alias, we'll remain separate entities - the opensolaris
website and mailing lists can easily tie us together.

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

So in a sense, we're already federated, to the extent that we all share
a common goal and a love of opensolaris - it's now a case of each user
group being diligent about sharing content, getting slides up, helping
each other out - and hopefully meeting up from time to time for a beer
or two :-)

	cheers,
			tim


[1] these have been hugely successful, for example our last meeting in
November had maybe 20 attendees in person, but the recording itself has
had 997 downloads to date! (whether those are just rss robots hitting
the mp3, or actual people listening to our content, I can't tell) The
rss feed has been pinged 8900 times since it was last updated with that
content, so it's not just the feed being prodded.