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

[Jim Grisanzio]

sorry. i forgot. i'll set this up now. :) watch for my mail off list ...

Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> +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.
>>>     
>>>