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

[Rich Reynolds]

Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> Jim Walker wrote:
>   
>> Tim Foster wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Hey folks,
>>>
>>> I've an idea :-) How about a repository of presentations that all user
>>> groups could share:
>>>     
>>>       
>> Yep. A repository is good. We just need to figure out a way so
>> everyone can upload to it. Maybe a wiki like genunix.org is a
>> better approach if it can handle the amount of data. We have
>> the technology with opensolaris.org, but it's not available or
>> easy to manage at a community level unless you make everyone
>> a leader.
>>
>> We can't have a situation where one person has to do all the work.
>> We have grown to big for that.
>>   
>>     
>
> Agree. We are way too big now and there's no way to make everyone an 
> editor under the current opensolaris.org structure. But instead of 
> centralizing the presentations physically on one page, why not just 
> create a page of pointers to the presentations that are distributed 
> across all the UG projects?
>
> Jim
>
>   
The other option is the distributed model, where all we house are 
pointers to presentations that are maintained off-site. The down side 
is, of course, broken pointers....

rich