[advocacy-discuss] Postconference meditations

[Laurent Blume]

Damian Wojslaw a écrit :
>     Well, it is my fault. I should have reclaimed the webpage. Anyway, 
> not to make all of this too dark, attendees liked the vent, many asked 
> for another. Many people installed OS in VBox and VMware, I've got 
> szc-osug opened and campus ambassador started up. I think that's much 
> for one event.

It definitely is.

What I find interesting in your feedback as well as our experience in
organizing the Toulouse event, is that both parties have to learn:

  - volunteer individuals, doing this on their own time and money, how
to organize and lead. And this can be tricky, as you said...

  - sponsors (and well, I think the kickstart is Sun's responsability)
on how to interact with very small entities who can't give an estimate
of the ROI just yet, since it's still starting.

I do hope a document to help put that into place will be established. It
also would be nice if Sun got a central point of commnuication for such
sponsorships, that would then contact the right person in a given
country or area. It's not obvious how to deal with it on a case by case
basis. Marketing people in each country don't always have information
about dealing with the OpenSolaris Project members outside Sun.

Laurent
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