[advocacy-discuss] Scottish OpenSolaris User Group

[Calum Benson]

On 7 Jan 2009, at 12:41, Graeme Mathieson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> A few of us here in Scotland are proposing starting up the Scottish  
> OpenSolaris User Group (ScOSUG) to discuss, advocate and increase  
> awareness of OpenSolaris in Scotland.  So far, I've managed to rope  
> in two additional volunteers (broonie and mconnell on  
> opensolaris.org -- I'm mathie, BTW), and hope to have positive  
> responses from a few others I've asked about it.  I should also  
> reach out to the Sun offices in Linlithgow, see if there is any  
> interest there.
>
> Initially, we'll arrange a monthly meeting, in a pub in central  
> Edinburgh, but hopefully we will be able to arrange a more formal  
> venue that will accommodate speakers in the near future.  I'm also  
> the organiser of the Scottish Ruby User Group, so I should be able  
> to get a venue sorted out pretty quickly as I already have contacts  
> for venues around here.

I know Scotland's only a wee country, but if your activities are as  
centred in the Lothian region as it sounds like they are at the  
moment, perhaps the "Lothian OSUG" or "East of Scotland OSUG" (or even  
just the "Edinburgh OSUG") would leave the door open in future for  
anyone in the West or North of Scotland who wanted to start up another  
one...?

(Or does our model support chapters of individual UGs?  If so, ignore  
me...)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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