[advocacy-discuss] Community conferences and advocacy community

[Anwarul Mamun]

On 10/13/08, Damian Wojslaw <damian at wojslaw.pl> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
>        My recent struggles to organize a Polish OS conference had me
> thinking.
> Exactly year ago I had a promise from my current employer to cover all
> expenses of this conference. They have failed to fulfill the promise, as
> few other companies. To cut long story short, right now I paid for
> conference room from my own earnings, which ate everything from my
> private bank account, and wonderful people from community agreed to
> refund me those money. With wonderful Sun Czech being a prime example,
> agreeing to cover full conference room fee (thanks for that go to Roman
> Strobl).
>        Other thing was a struggle to set up a conference website with
> registration interface and all.
>        And then it hit me. Would it be difficult if User Groups were able
> to
> host their conferences at opensolaris.org? Would it be very difficult to
> implement a simple registration mechanism? Our benefit may be some
> automagical way of throwing the info at advocacy main page. Also, would
> it be possible to create an information nexus, where people looking for
> sponsors would be able to contact people able to sponsor such events?


Good idea. In this way more community program could be arranged.

       I, for once, volunteer to make my conference organizing skills and
> all
> contacts I have gathered for that reason available to anyone willing to
> organize their own event.
>
>        Any thoughts?


--Anwarul

Regards
>
> --
> Damian Wojslaw
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> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/
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