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

[Michal Bielicki]

Milan Jurik wrote:
> 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
As far as I can see he is not counting any non US shows for anything. So 
no Linuxtag, no OSDEVCON, no guadec. Oh btw the season already started, 
FOSDEM is already over ;)

cheers

Michal

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