[advocacy-discuss] Request for all dates for usergroup meetings around the globe

[Michal Bielicki]

While the discussion ran I set his up over the weekend:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/sw-porters/OpenSolarisEvents/
So stephen it IS a google calendar ;)

On 30 Mar 2008, at 18:16, Stephen Lau wrote:
> Tim Foster wrote:
>> Michal Bielicki wrote:
>>
>>> I am working on a calendar of opensolaris events. Would it be  
>>> possible  for all Usergroup people to provide me with dates of  
>>> their meetings ?  I'd like to add them to the calendar.
>>> Lets see if it works out
>>>
>>
>> As (slightly lapsed) maintainer of the "Talks & Presentations"  
>> page,  I
>> definitely agree with the idea. Going further though, I'd be asking  
>> if
>> user groups could also update it with pointers to their slides &
>> recorded audio/video of their presentations.

Its an events page. It will have links to the user groups events so  
there they should put all their own links. Problem seems to be that  
most usergroups never update their pages ;)

>>
>>
>> Putting a calendar on the page is good, but from experience, having  
>> one
>> person try to maintain a list of talks/user-group meetings just can't
>> scale - it really needs a community effort.

Since the community effort seems to haven't worked I started my own  
effort.

>>
>>
>> [ a constantly updated wiki on genunix might be the answer, but it
>> needs buy-in from all user groups ]

If you want to convince everybody and run after them every month, be  
my guest. I am trying to make it simple. Send me dates I will put them  
in. If you don't, they will simply not show up :)

>>
>>
>> 	cheers,
>> 			tim
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Make it a Google calendar and allow other people (like UG leaders)  
> to update it?
>
> -- 
> stephen lau | stevel at opensolaris.org | www.whacked.net
>

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