[ogb-discuss] Project Proposal: Bhimavaram Open Solaris User Group

[Jim Grisanzio]

Thanks, Steve. I'll follow up with Eric.

Jim

Stephen Lau wrote:
> Hi Jim,
> 	Everything looks good.  Thanks for letting us know.  Eric: Can you set 
> the project/UG up with space and lists?
> 
> cheers,
> steve
> 
> Jim Grisanzio wrote:
>> Hello, OGB ... the Advocacy CG has approved this User Group project 
>> proposal and would like to move forward.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>> ***
>> Proposal for Bhimavaram OpenSolaris User Group Project (BVRM-OSUG)
>>
>> Purpose: To drive awareness and adoption of OpenSolaris in the 
>> Bhimavaram region in India.
>>
>> List of Community Groups Sponsoring the project:
>> 	Advocacy Community Group
>>
>> List of project team members:
>> 	G V Padmaraju (OS id: gvpraju), primary contact
>> 	Raju Alluri (OS id: sspurthi)
>>
>> Project Description: The purpose of this project is to drive OpenSolaris 
>> awareness amongst student and professional community in this area. The 
>> professional community is a minority in this region, so the target 
>> audience will mostly be students. We want to increase OpenSolaris 
>> adoption in labs and student projects. We also plan to contribute 
>> documentation and small code changes back to the community. We want the 
>> help of the college alumni in the industry to guide us in these efforts.
>>
>> The project will also archive its contributions like student projects, 
>> presentations, and other material to the project space on the 
>> OpenSolaris site.
>>
>> Project Needs: This project requires project space on OpenSolaris.org 
>> site. The project also requires a mailing list. Suggested list name is 
>> ug-bvrmosug at opensolaris dot org.
>>
>> Related Projects: We would like to closely watch the successful user 
>> groups and see if we can work with them to do related activities.
>>
>> Related past activities: We have done a few workshops in this region in 
>> the last 3 years, where at least one of the expert talks or hands-on 
>> sessions has been based on Solaris/OpenSolaris technologies. These 
>> workshops are attended by students in this region to the tune of 200 
>> attendees per event.
>>     - 2004: Solaris features overview
>>     - 2005: Solaris Containers
>>     - 2005: Solaris 10 features overview: SMF, Containers, DTrace
>>     - 2006: Hands on training on DTrace
>>     - 2007: OpenSolaris
>>
>> ***
>>
>>
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