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

[Foz Saeed]

Have we worked on search engine optimization?  That increases traffic 
tremendously?

Jim Walker wrote:

>Jim,
>
>I think the website components user groups have by being projects
>is great. It makes it easy to organize meetings, presentations and
>events.
>
>But, if I came into the opensolaris.org site as a first time user I would
>have to know to go to the Advocacy Community and do a few more
>clicks to get a list of user groups before I could see which ones were
>in my area, or know to go to the Projects page and sort through a long
>list of projects to find the user groups.
>
>It might be good to have a User Groups button under Projects (or
>someplace else) in the sidebar that goes to this page:
>http://opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/usergroups
>
>Actually, it would be nice to get to this page with one sidebar click:
>http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/usergroups/ug-leaders/
>
>Also, it would be cool to have an interactive map showing where
>the user groups were located around the world.
>
>Cheers,
>Jim
>
>Jim Grisanzio wrote:
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>
>>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?
>>
>>I'd like to explore this because as the OpenSolaris distributions mature 
>>and become easier to install and use, the OpenSolaris community will be 
>>reaching out to extremely large numbers of users. That will be a new 
>>experience for many of us. We have to think in terms of hundreds of 
>>thousands of people using our stuff in many regions around the world -- 
>>which means cutting across some big language, cultural, and technical 
>>barriers. We already have user groups and country portals in many of 
>>these regions, so how do we get people involved to help engage new 
>>users? How do we establish closer relationships with the distro 
>>developers both on and off opensolaris.org? How do we grow ourselves as 
>>a CG at a reasonable pace? And how do we manage all those new questions 
>>we'll get. :) I think Advocacy can easily set up some region-specific 
>>lists that can be staffed with user group members from around the world 
>>to answer questions and help new people out. Just one idea off the top 
>>of my head.
>>
>>Also, back six months or so we had a conversation about moving the user 
>>groups to projects so we could raise their profile and fix the old UG 
>>Community. That's done. User Groups are now projects just like all 
>>projects on opensolaris.org, and they are growing at their own pace. 
>>Perfect. But the migration of UGs to projects was always an interim 
>>solution in my mind. What's next? Should user groups be elevated 
>>further? Should they continue living under the Advocacy CG? Should 
>>Advocacy and the UGs grow into some new user-specific entity or become a 
>>separate section of opensolaris.org?
>>
>>Think long term on this stuff. Nothing is going to happen fast. In fact, 
>>I specifically want to start small and grow slowly. But I also want to 
>>map out some possibilities and see where we have some consensus so we 
>>actually end up where we want to be in a year or so.
>>
>>Thoughts?
>>
>>Jim
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>>
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