[advocacy-discuss] Project Proposal: Porto Alegre OpenSolaris User Group

[Stephen Lau]

Woohoo. +1 from me, if only so we have a consistent presence at FISL.
Rock on.  I miss Porto Alegre - beautiful city. :)

Rafael Vanoni wrote:
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> Project Proposal: Porto Alegre OpenSolaris User Group (PoA-OSUG)
>
> Purpose: To drive awareness and adoption of OpenSolaris in the Porto 
> Alegre area and within the Brazilian OpenSolaris community.
>
> List of Community Groups Sponsoring the project:
>    	Advocacy Community Group
>
> List of project team members:
> 	Vitório Sassi (OS id: vfcsassi), primary contact
>    	Rafael Vanoni (OS id: rafaelv)
>    	Cristiano Basso (OS id: csbasso)
>
> Project Description:
>
> The purpose of this project is to drive OpenSolaris awareness and 
> adoption among Porto Alegre residents, targeting both the academic and 
> the professional communities. We have seen a growing number of 
> interested users and open source enthusiasts in this area and we intend 
> to consolidate our efforts into this user group.
>
> The core members of this project are bringing an existing OS community 
> based at a local university to this new city wide user group, taking 
> advantage of the momentum built around OpenSolaris in our region. This 
> community has been growing steadily and requires a proper infrastructure.
>
> Project Needs:
>
> This project requires space on the opensolaris.org portal and a mailing 
> list. Suggested list name is poa-osug at opensolaris dot org.
>
> Related Projects:
>
> We intend to work closely with the Brazilian OpenSolaris Portal 
> (br.opensolaris.org) and other OSUGs in our country to help drive 
> awareness and share knowledge through talks, tutorials and related material.
>
> Proposed activities:
>
> We plan on establishing a calendar of monthly meetings and talks about 
> OpenSolaris technologies in universities, open source events and within 
>   interested companies. The presentation material resulting from those 
> talks will be made available on our website.
>
> We are also in close contact with existing open source user groups and 
> will continue to collaborate with those communities. And we will 
> continue to participate in the yearly International Free Software Forum, 
> which is held in Porto Alegre every year and similar events.
>
>
>   


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