[advocacy-discuss] Proposal for new OSUGs in Hangzhou/Xi'an at China

[Qingye Jiang (John)]

The great success in China comes from the fact that there are many
people from many teams working on this. Right now there are six OSUG's
in China. Fiona Duan (from OpenSolaris Engineering Team) handles the one
in Beijing (BJOSUG), Adam Zhang (from ISV/E team) handles the one in
Shanghai (SHOSUG) Rachel Zhang (from AGC team) handles the one in
Chengdu (CDOSUG), Victor Jie (from GSS) and Benny Luo (from ISV/E team)
handle the one in Shenzhen (SZOSUG), while Rita Zhang and Alex Peng
(both from SDN China team) handle the newly registered Hangzhou (HZOSUG)
and Xi'AN (XAOSUG). There is an emerging OSUG in Nanjing going on, also
led by Rita and Alex. This one might join the big family in the near
future. The Open Community team led by James Bai is also doing great
work in building OSUG's, they might come by and ask to setup new OSUG's
in some other area in China very soon.

It is interesting that different OSUG's in China show different
behavior. For example, the one in Beijing (BJOSUG) tends to use Sun
speakers extensively, because there are a lot of Sun engineers available
as speakers (the meeting venue is actually a conference room in Tsinghua
Science Park that hosts Sun China Engineering and Research Institute).
The meetings are like lectures with Q&A's. The three OSUG's in Chengdu
(CDOSUG), Hangzhou (HZOSUG) and Xi'An (XAOSUG) tend to use none-Sun
speakers. Because all these areas are remote from Sun offices and it is
not possible to have Sun people to present each and every time. The
meetings are like salons, with equal amount of presentations and
discussions (or event more discussions). All these three OSUG's choose
to use cafe instead of conference rooms for their meetings. This
eliminates the need to rent a meeting facility, and OSUG members do not
expect others to pay for their drink. Generally speaking, the size of
BJOSUG is a lot bigger, with audience size of 60-150, while the ones in
Chengdu, Hangzhou, and Xi'An has about 20-30. This small size makes it
convenient to host the meetings anywhere, and promotes a community
sharing -- rather than lecturing -- atmosphere. We believe that this
might be a good direction to build OSUG's in China, still experimenting...

I am concerned by the fact that Shenzhen (SZOSUG) and Shanghai (SHOSUG)
are now less active than before. Our team might try to rejuvenate these
two OSUG's, with the experienced we acquired from Chengdu, Hangzhou, and
Xi'An. This is exactly why we do not want to register the OSUG in
Nanjing at this point. We want to do some work of good quality before
attaching an OSUG label to it.

Best regards,

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Laurent Blume 写道:
> 你好 段少婷！
>
> Fiona Duan a écrit :
>   
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> Group Name: HZOSUG
>> Location: Hangzhou,Zhejiang Province, China
>>     
>
> +1
>
>   
>> Group Name: XAOSUG
>> Location: Xi'an,Shanxi Province, China
>>     
>
> +1
>
> I'm impressed that you manage to handle so many UG! Great work there :-)
>
> Laurent
>