[advocacy-discuss] A guide for communityu event organisers - draft

[Laurent Blume]

Philip Torchinsky a écrit :
> (a) It might be useful to use osum.sun.com for events, where people 
> interested in Sun technologies are expected. There is registration 
> on-line facilities also.

While the tools can be great, I will do -1 on anything sun.com.
It must be on opensolaris.org.
Those conferences are made by the Community, and while I'm advocating
for a strong Sun sponsorship, it doesn't mean ownership, either real or
apparent. Perception matters a lot: we, as a UG, want to appear as
working in cooperation with Sun, at the community level, not being a
marketing puppet. I emphasize /appear/, because I know this is not Sun
intention.

Isn't there a Community wiki where Damian could start this document?
genunix.org?

> (b) we may ask SDN guys to help us in gathering good audience. Does 
> somebody on this list know who is responsible for SDN mailings and what 
> is the procedure to sumbit geographically targeted news to SDN list? It 
> also will make SDN mailing list more useful and we'll get more subscribers.

That's where I think a central Sun OpenSolaris sponsorship office would
help, by knowing that kind of info.
Sun seems to have *a lot* of internal or semi-internal lists that could
be interested in those events, and only Sun can post to those to
announce it.

> p. 8 and 11 seem to be a bit repeating, but I would also repeat this 
> line several times because it is important :)

Definitely :-)

Laurent
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