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

[Jim Grisanzio]

Rafael Vanoni wrote:
> That sounds like a good way to escalate. I think we could go a little 
> beyond region-specific lists, at least in places where the community 
> grows to a large number. Setting up UGs under a country/region portal 
> would automatically decentralize things. Each country could have its own 
> core group in charge of voting and creating UGs - as a country's 
> community reaches some level of maturity (and size).
>   
So, would that be the existing portals or a new set of groups?
> Something hierarchical, OSUGs at the lowest level, then coutry/region 
> and then advocacy.
>   
So, insert the portals in between the UGs and Advocacy? I like the idea 
of integrating the portals into this mix somehow.
> Regardless of the overall size of the community, the advocacy group will 
> continue to handle core discussions and issues. Each country/region core 
> group would report to advocacy.
>   
One of the issues I'm having now is reaching all the UGs via 
advocacy-discuss. If I have to get all of them for some reason, I have 
to ping all 60 lists. How do we solve that problem? Of is it not a 
problem to solve? :)

Jim
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