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

[Jim Grisanzio]

+1

Stephen Lau wrote:
> 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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Jim Grisanzio http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris