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

[Jim Grisanzio]

Nicolas Dorfsman wrote:
> Le 25 janv. 08 à 01:54, Rafael Vanoni a écrit :
>
>   
>> Jim Grisanzio wrote:
>>     
>>> hey,
>>>
>>> I wanted to toss out some issues for discussion regarding the  
>>> Advocacy
>>> CG and the User Groups. Where are we going? How are we going to get
>>> there? Who does what?
>>>       
>
> Excellent question.
>
>   
>> 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).
>>     
>
> Take a look to these maps :
> http://www.guses.org/home/presentation/ug-maps
>
> Do you really think we need to "decentralize" ?  Please no, we  
> certainly need to federate. Only few countries have more than one ug.
>   
How do we federate?
> We need clarification on contributors status, a more living web site...
>   
Clarification how? Is the constitution not clear? I think you may mean 
how do the UGs develop contributors and core contributors within 
Advocacy. Is that right? If so, I agree. :)
>   
>> Something hierarchical, OSUGs at the lowest level, then coutry/region
>> and then advocacy.
>>
>> 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.
>>     
>
>
> Core discussions...hum.  We may need a list specific on ugs, which  
> distribute to all user-groups...we need to federate ug a bit more !   
>   

We had ug-discuss and now we have advocacy-discuss and the same problem 
exists -- only a few groups participate /across/ the entire user group 
community. I'm not seeing a good reason to keep the UGs within Advocacy, 
to be honest. I think the are buried in here.

> Who here is a european member and does know me ?  Who knows where he  
> could find presentations samples, etc.....
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I think people have to dig through each UG to find stuff. Some of it is 
centralized, but most of the content is now distributed. At least the 
list of groups is in one place now. :)

Jim
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