[advocacy-discuss] Conference Season Cometh: MySQL Users Conf, JavaOne, CommunityOne, etc.

[Milan Jurik]

Hi Ben,

V út, 18. 03. 2008 v 07:50, Ben Rockwood píše:
> Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> > hey, thanks for sending this, Ben ...
> >
> > Ben Rockwood wrote:
> >> CommunityOne: The call for papers went out, but I didn't see anyone 
> >> pick up the ball on organizing for the show.  Perhaps this happened 
> >> and I just missed it all.  Will OpenSolaris have representation this 
> >> year?  Who's leading that effort?
> >>   
> >
> > Also, I understand that the weekend prior to C1 will be the 
> > OpenSolaris Summit in San Francisco:
> > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/2008-March/005182.html
> >
> 
> 
> 
> Yes, the Summit is going to be great, but I didn't include it because 
> its not a "work" event.  The conferences I'm concerned with each year 
> are those that may or may not have a Sun presence but are unlikely to 
> have an OpenSolaris presence, and in the case that they do, won't have a 
> non-SMI employee "community" presence.  I think my presence at shows in 
> the past has been an integral part of showing what OpenSolaris is really 
> about, not just Sun releasing code, but people having the ability to get 
> involved and be part of the team.   I enjoy every opportunity to say, "I 
> don't work for Sun,  I'm not being paid, I'm a member of the 
> community".... because thats what this is all about.
> 
> I _highly_ suggest that others concerned with Advocacy follow suit, find 
> shows in your area, throw on your cleanest OpenSolaris shirt and go!  
> Its fun, refreshing, and helps ground you in reality... the truth is, 
> trademark issues or governance crap isn't our "big" problem, its getting 
> people to upgrade from Solaris 8!  And, believe it or not, you would 
> _expect_ conference attendees (normally a small subset of any given 
> companies IT staff) to be "informed", but most STILL don't know that 
> Solaris is Open Source!!!  Sharing the news with people hearing it for 
> the first time is exciting and worth spending a floating holiday or two on.
> 

Do you count also OSDEVCON (http://www.osdevcon.org/2008/) to SUN
actions? The most of organizators are outside of Sun.

Best regards,

Milan