[advocacy-discuss] Advocacy CG FY08 Report

[Thiago Pereira]

Hey Jim,

Do we already have the needs/goals for FY09?

;-)

TaP

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 5:31 AM, Jim Grisanzio <Jim.Grisanzio at sun.com> wrote:

>  hey ... since I live at Sun and I'm used to chopping up the year into
> fiscal quarters and doing reports and such, I figured I'd write one for
> Advocacy while I was at it. I think it's a good habit to get into for
> governance as well, so I'll send a link to the OGB so they know what we're
> up to over here. I'm not perfect with stats or keeping track of everything,
> but I think this is close enough to give a brief outline of where we are and
> how we got here. Hope it's useful. Feel free to chip at it and add stuff
> ...  -- Jim G.
>
>
> Advocacy Community Group Annual Report
> FY08: July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008
>
> The Advocacy CG grew substantially last year. It was created via a merger
> of three old communities during the OGB's initial community reorg. Advocacy
> also migrated the OSUGs from individual pages to be full projects on the
> site. The CG merger and OSUG migrations took approximately six months, and
> the process was entirely manual. About 10 OSUG pages were deleted in the
> migration process because they had been abandoned, and more than two dozen
> new groups were added. Advocacy also sponsored some non-UG projects and
> several additional lists as well. Most lists grew in activity and
> membership. Aside from one shipment of Sun materials to the OSUGs, all the
> activities in Advocacy were based on community involvement and the growth
> was largely organic. Although the vast majority of Advocacy traffic is based
> around OSUGs, Advocacy members at Sun and outside Sun participate many
> dozens of Sun and industry conferences around the world with technical and
> non-technical presentations.
>
> Advocacy Community Group
>
>    - Created the Advocacy CG by merging the Marketing, Immigrants, and
>    User Group communities.
>    - Merged communities were deleted after the process was complete.
>     - Merged community lists were archived and linked to from Advocacy.
>
> OpenSolaris User Groups:
>
>    - Migrated 53 OSUGs to new projects sponsored by Advocacy.
>     - Deleted 10 abandoned OSUGs during the migration.
>    - Added 26 new OSUGs for a total of 69.
>    - Sent UG kits (shirts, hats, DVDs, bottle openers, etc) to 56 OSUGs,
>    which took several months.
>
> General:
>
>    - OSUGs: 69
>    - OSUGs that have lists but have yet to open projects: 10
>    - Non-UG projects: 3
>    - Lists: 85
>    - Membership of all lists: 5, 795
>    - Best guess of list membership overlap: about 20%
>     - advocacy-discuss subscriptions increased from 350 to 425.
>     - OSUG list subscriptions increased from 3,000 to 4,858.
>    - Advocacy Contributors: 7
>    - Advocacy Core Contributors: 102
>    - Conferences: Many dozens.
>
> Needs/Goals: (just making these up off the top of my head)
>
>    - Grow advocacy-discuss and the OSUGs.
>     - Connect more of the global advocacy operations and get the content
>    on to advocacy-discuss.
>    - Editors to maintain pages (delete, add, update, etc).
>    - News writers for the Newsletter.
>    - Conference organizers to manage events on list.
>     - More Contributors. We have too many CCs.
>    - Add 28 Jive forum gateways for OSUG lists.
>
> Sun Resources:
>
>    - FY08: One global shipment of OSUG kits.
>    - Planned for FY09: I don't know.
>
>
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